Speaking at an event for TUV members and supporters in Lagan Valley last night, sitting MEP Jim Allister said the time had come for people cross Northern Ireland to pass their verdict on terrorist inclusive government.

“Last year, people in a small corner of this constituency, in the Dromore by-election set shock waves throughout the political establishment and wiped the smiles off the Chuckle Brothers. Within hours, one Paisley was gone. Days later the other followed. However, while we shed no tears at the ending of the Chuckle Brothers routine, TUV was established to achieve much greater things. The optics of devolved government may have changed but sadly the DUP remain as wedded to Sinn Fein/IRA today as they were then.

“The forthcoming election offers the people of Northern Ireland their first opportunity Province-wide to pass their verdict of terrorist inclusive government. I believe that the election on 4th June will demonstrate that the Unionist people of Ulster remain resolutely opposed to the personification of the IRA’s terror campaign as Joint First Minister, the continued existence of the IRA’s Army Council, letting the IRA retain there ill-gotten gains and Sinn Fein/IRA’s attempts to destroy our education system.

“I have the privilege of standing as the only candidate who has a track record of opposing Republicanism 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Others may, for self-serving purposes, attempt to portray themselves as the people to beat Sinn Fein but the Ulster people are no fools. You cannot sit Around the cabinet table with the Provisionals 9 to 5 and then knock doors in the evening claiming to be the party to defeat Republicans!

“Only a vote for Traditional Unionist Voice can be interpreted as a vote against Sinn Fein. A vote for any other Unionist will only serve to prop them up in government!”