Speaking on Monday 4th May from East Londonderry Traditional Unionist MEP Jim Allister said:-

“The orchestrated sham fight with Sinn Fein, which the DUP wishes to launch in this election, is an insult to the intelligence of Unionist voters. Those who gleefully made IRA/Sinn Fein their partners in government are not their enemies at the polls. Mrs Dodds posing for 4 weeks as taking the battle to Sinn Fein, while Mr Dodds works every day with Sinn Fein, exposes the hypocrisy which is afoot.

You can’t make Martin McGuinness your buddy in government and pretend concern about Barbara de Brun! The real sham of the DUP campaign is exposed by the fact that the morning after the election it will be back to business as usual with Sinn Fein, round the cabinet table, with the DUP not knowing or caring how many members of the IRA Army Council are double jobbing there.

As I campaigned over the weekend I was greatly encouraged by the number of voters who see right through this sham and who will not be fooled by the empty propaganda of those who every day are keeping Sinn Fein in power. As the only candidate opposed to terrorists in government and with a record of unblemished opposition to Sinn Fein, I can look every voter in the eye and assure them that what they see is what they get. My principles are the same in Belfast as in Brussels and the same before as after the election. Voters know that a 1st preference vote for any other candidate is a vote supporting terrorists in government.”