Allister lambasts DUP/Sinn Fein regime
27 November 2007
Speaking following an auction at a political fund-raising dinner in South Antrim tonight, Jim Allister MEP lambasted the present DUP/Sinn Fein regime and hinted that a new unionist political movement will soon emerge.
In the course of his remarks Mr Allister said:-
“Tonight we’ve just auctioned some fine items for a fair price, and in a good cause, but over the last few months in Ulster some have sold far more precious things for far, far less.
Long held principles of the never, never variety have gone for the baubles of high, but shared, office; no terrorists in government was traded for an IOU in vanishing ink, meaninglessly called a “pledge of office”; democratic government was surrendered for the absurdity of mandatory coalition, whereby you can never vote a party out of office, nor have an Opposition; and long-standing, principled rejection of the iniquitous Belfast Agreement was meekly given up for empty cosmetic tinkerings of no substantive value.
As if all that wasn’t bad enough, the lowest bidder, IRA/Sinn Fein, was rewarded with the unbelievable give-away that they can hold onto the pride of their military structures, the Army Council, meaning that at every Executive meeting Mr P O’Neill is the unseen guest, and as a final sweetener they were given a pack of “get out of jail free” cards to be used when they feel the need to do the odd murder. One was just recently cashed in by the South Armagh brigade when they murdered Paul Quinn. Because of the sordid DUP/Sinn Fein deal and their mutual vested interest, the DUP, mark my words, will do nothing about that brutal killing, other than to twist and turn to pretend it wasn’t what it patently was, the IRA enforcing its writ in its territory. It was murder and it was murder by the IRA and because they’ll get away with it, it won’t be the last IRA murder.
This is the crooked political environment in which we now live, where that which is morally wrong is deemed politically right and those stained by the blood of the innocents rule over us and a state which they not only don’t accept, but are pledged to destroy.
Against this dismal background, I have, however, one piece of good news for Unionism. Shortly, I expect the launch of a political movement to provide a voice for those presently disenfranchised, which will hold the respectable traditional unionist ground once held by those who shamefully swung open the door of government to IRA/Sinn Fein.”
