The TUV’s 2015 conference will take place on Saturday 28th November in the Hilton Hotel, Templepatrick with public events starting at 11am. As well as a range of topics covered by members of the party, Labour MP for Vauxhall Kate Hoey will as a special guest delivery...
Statement by Jim Allister MLA: “I am saddened to hear that the B&Q outlet in Braid Retail Park in Ballymena is set to be closed by the end of 2016. “My immediate thoughts are with the employees who will be greatly impacted by the loss of this store, and over the...
Statement by Jim Allister MLA: “The very fact that for the umpteenth time crisis talks are starting at Stormont is irrefutable evidence for even the slowest of learners that Belfast Agreement devolution is unfixable. Yet, once more, Northern Ireland is to be subjected...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “The IRA death threat received by Martina McDonnell, a close friend of the McGuigan family, illustrates that while Unionists pontificate about Sinn Fein needing to admit that the IRA exists or practice political hokey cokey with...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “It is now clear that the Government has decided to call the bluff of weak Unionism. “Having heard it all before when it came to OTR letters and the graduated response they, like the electorate, clearly don’t take the threats of...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “In May 2007, following the appointment of Peter Robinson and Jeffrey Donaldson to the Privy Council, the DUPboasted that this would mean they would have access to secret intelligence on the IRA and loyalist paramilitaries from...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “DUP MLAs not turning up for debates in the Assembly chamber and withdrawing from question time shouldn’t fool anyone. “Due to their shameless backpedalling on the pledge to leave the executive they sustain Sinn Fein/IRA Ministers...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “Today I moved the first stage of my new Special Advisers Bill. The Bill is designed to curb the Stormont Executive’s excessive spend on Special Advisers by reducing the number of SpAds in OFMdFM from 8 to 4 and linking their...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “Today’s comments by Sinn Fein Northern Ireland chairman Bobby Storey about the IRA “butterfly” and McGuinness’s remarks about state agents being behind two recent murders would be laughable were the issues involved not deadly...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “News that Peter Robinson plans to renominate Ministers who will then resign again means that Stormont is set for new lows of pantomime farce. “All of the shenanigans in Stormont to date will pale into insignificance and it will...