Smug McGuinness demands policing now from “DUP Nua”
01 March 2008
Responding to Joint First Minister McGuinness’ speech in Dublin, Traditional Unionist MEP, Jim Allister, challenged the DUP to spell out precisely the undertakings they had given IRA/Sinn Fein before their first official meeting on 26 March 2007. Coming on top of the so far unchallenged claim in Ed Moloney’s recent biography on Ian Paisley, that at St Andrews 2 DUP MPs secretly met Sinn Fein, Mr Allister said it was time for complete candour from “DUP Nua”, as McGuinness dubbed them.
In a statement Mr Allister said, “What a commentary in itself on the DUP’s departure from traditional Unionist values that at the annual IRA/Sinn Fein jamboree the chief acolyte of the still continuing Army Council can laud Ian Paisley and speak tellingly of “DUP Nua”. As for his expectation that the DUP will indeed assent to the devolution of policing & justice, I expect he’s right, because having gone into government with a partner with a military wing, in time their reverse gear – just like last March - will put them where they presently say they will not go. No one should be surprised if by the next Sinn Fein Ard Fheis McGuinness is exercising the powers over the Judiciary which shamefully devolution of policing & justice will bring him.”
