"Scowl, don't smile" says new DUP Ministerial Code
08 March 2008
Addressing South Antrim TUV Association, Jim Allister MEP said that though on the scene a very short time TUV has already had a huge impact on politics in the Province. “Without TUV we wouldn’t have had the Dromore result, which had been the curtain call on the chuckle routine and toppled not one, but two Paisleys. Mr Peter Robinson should be deeply grateful”, quipped Mr Allister.
The Traditional Unionist MEP continued, “But our interest is not in the change of personnel, our mission is to see IRA/Sinn Fein removed from government and with them the hideous system of mandatory coalition which let them in. Whether it’s Ian Paisley chuckling with McGuinness or Peter Robinson deliberately scowling beside the equal First Minister, the reality and unacceptability of unrepentant terrorists at the heart of government remains undiminished. The new instruction manual for DUP Ministers says, “when you are with a Sinn Fein colleague and you see a camera “scowl, don’t smile, never look happy. Don’t say cheese, say Dromore – that will wipe the smile off your face.”
Out goes Mr Happy, in comes Mr Angry, but it’s to dance the same routine with Marty the Terrorist. Changing either the packaging or the salesmen doesn’t alter the product. It’s as flawed and dangerous as ever.
IRA/Sinn Fein remains as unfit for government with Peter Robinson as with Ian Paisley. We will still have the poison at the heart of government of a republican revolutionary party which is dedicated to the destruction of the state which they govern, which holds tenaciously to an illegal Army Council, which retains a military wing and which you can never vote out of office because of the pernicious system of mandatory coalition which guarantees them places in government for as long as it takes them to deliver the all-Ireland outcome which is the Belfast Agreement’s ultimate destination.”
