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11/12/2009
TUV: 'Let Stormont Melt'
The Stormont Executive is "teetering" because of pressures from the Traditional Unionist Voice, party leader Jim Allister has claimed.
Speaking at the TUV's annual dinner, Mr Allister (pictured) said his party had made "remarkable progress" on its anti-Assembly coalition campaign.
"Mandatory coalition is teetering because the voice of Traditional Unionists has destabilised the cosy DUP/Sinn Féin axis essential to its survival," he told colleagues.
"It is the heat and gravitational pull of traditional unionism which has the DUP/Sinn Féin coalition in meltdown."
Mr Allister said he was happy to "let it melt" and he suggested Stormont does not need reformed, rather "transformed".
"Government must be formed by consensus not compulsion, operated by an agreed programme not gridlocked by reciprocal vetoes," said the TUV leader.
He attacked so-called "double-jobbers" and pointed his aim squarely at South Antrim MP and MLA William McCrea.
"Soon, the electorate again will have the opportunity to give their verdict on Stormont and on the double and triple jobbers who populate it.
"Here in South Antrim we look forward to that exercise of calling to account a part-time MP who when he last stood for Parliament pledged mandatory coalition which included Sinn Féin was 'out of the question'."
He added: "Well, Mr McCrea your day of reckoning is coming in this constituency and we'll be there to hold you to account."
(PR/BMcc)
Speaking at the TUV's annual dinner, Mr Allister (pictured) said his party had made "remarkable progress" on its anti-Assembly coalition campaign.
"Mandatory coalition is teetering because the voice of Traditional Unionists has destabilised the cosy DUP/Sinn Féin axis essential to its survival," he told colleagues.
"It is the heat and gravitational pull of traditional unionism which has the DUP/Sinn Féin coalition in meltdown."
Mr Allister said he was happy to "let it melt" and he suggested Stormont does not need reformed, rather "transformed".
"Government must be formed by consensus not compulsion, operated by an agreed programme not gridlocked by reciprocal vetoes," said the TUV leader.
He attacked so-called "double-jobbers" and pointed his aim squarely at South Antrim MP and MLA William McCrea.
"Soon, the electorate again will have the opportunity to give their verdict on Stormont and on the double and triple jobbers who populate it.
"Here in South Antrim we look forward to that exercise of calling to account a part-time MP who when he last stood for Parliament pledged mandatory coalition which included Sinn Féin was 'out of the question'."
He added: "Well, Mr McCrea your day of reckoning is coming in this constituency and we'll be there to hold you to account."
(PR/BMcc)
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