TUV Leader is seeking to table an urgent oral question to the Justice Minister in the Assembly on Monday. The question, which requires the consent of the Speaker, focuses on the threat now posed to Orange Halls and personnel by McGuinness equating the Orange Order to...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “The spectacle of McGuinness, the epitome of inextricable links between terror and politics, demonising the Orange Order by his scurrilous attempt to link it and equate it to the UVF, takes some beating. “However, the...
An extract from Jim Allister MLA’s contribution to yesterday’s Haass debate: Mr Allister: I am in this House unashamedly and unapologetically as a unionist. Therefore, when I read the seventh document from Haass, I make no apology for asking this question: what is...
Commenting on the announcement that Peter Osborne has been appointed as Chair of the Community Relations Council, Jim Allister MLA said: “I am surprised that the department over which the First Minister jointly presides has given its assent to Mr Osborne being...
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister MLA: “I am dismayed that for the vile crime of aiding and abetting terrorism, linked to the callous murder of Sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar, that Marian McGlinchey has received a paltry suspended sentence. “The Quinsey...
Commenting on an “informed warning” for Gerry Kelly over his obstruction of the police when he jumped on the bonnet of a landrover, TUV leader Jim Allister said: “This is political policing in action. While flag protesters are pursued by a special...
TUV’s analysis of the Haass proposals General observations: 1. Throughout the document there is not a single acknowledgement that for 30 years we faced a campaign of vicious terrorism; instead “terrorism” is sanitised down to “the...
Message from Jim Allister MLA: TUV had an effective year in 2013: we helped force the DUP’s huge u-turn on the odious Maze project, we piloted Ann’s Law through Stormont – giving innocent victims their first victory in years and Sinn Fein their first...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “TUV warned throughout the Haass process that Unionism would be expected to concede ground yet again. The Sinn Fein response itself verifies our warnings. While the proposals have not yet been published – and they...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “I am appalled, but not surprised, by Minister O’Neill lavishing €137m of farming money on the rural development programme, because she has form on such misdirection of funds. Last year she oversaw £844,000 of RDP funds go to one...
