The following platform piece from Jim Allister appeared in today’s News Letter: The OTR scandal provides a glimpse into the political corruption and skulduggery that spawned and drove the ‘peace process’. When government, which above all ought to protect...
Every year since the Madrid bombings in 2004 the European Union has dedicated one day in March as a Memorial Day to the victims of terrorist attacks. Prior to the election of Jim Allister to the Assembly this event had never been marked at Stormont. However, the TUV...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “I had a long standing appointment to meet the Secretary of State today. Indeed her office phoned on Monday to confirm that it was still going ahead and ask what we wanted put on the agenda. “Unsurprisingly the NIO was informed...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “The secret negotiations with the Provos, which gifted their OTRs the comfort of effective immunity, undermined and blunted the HET’s work. While victims craved justice their government was conspiring with the victim-makers to...
Below is Jim Allister’s speech during today’s Assembly debate: “The affirmation that justice in a democracy must be done and must be seen to be done is not only a catchphrase but a fundamental principle that underlies the operation of a judicial system. The sordid...
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:- “If Peter Robinson accepts what the Prime Minister has offered, then, he will have buckled within 24 hours of playing the hard man. “Having attacked the evolution, secrecy and operation of the OTR scheme and demanded to know who...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “I have today written to the Chief Constable asking how many HET investigations have been impacted by the issuing of “comfort letters” to “on the runs”. It is essential that victims have clarity on this point. “I have also written...
Reacting to the news that Republicans are organising a party in Donegal to welcome John Downey home Jim Allister said: “It is bad enough that the innocent victims of the Hyde Park bombing were betrayed by their government to prop up the grubby “peace process” in...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “Peter Robinson’s threat to resign over the fallout from the Downey judgement is bluster. “Many of the facts surrounding these get out of jail free cards have yet to emerge but it is evident that the Government saw dealing with on...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “First and foremost my thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones in the IRA’s Hyde Park bombing, and all other victims of the 187 afforded amnesty. They have been cruelly denied justice because of a sordid deal with a...
