Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“3 years without Sinn Fein at the top and heart of government is more a matter to be celebrated than lamented.
“By pulling down government, such as it was, Sinn Fein demonstrated what TUV has long maintained, Sinn Fein has no interest in making Northern Ireland work. Quite the reverse.
“Yet, foolishly, for other unionist parties the focus remains on how to dress up unionism paying the Sinn Fein ransom so that this same system of failed devolution can return.
“How perverse, that Sinn Fein brings down government, but the pressure is on Unionists to pay their price to get it up and going again! All so that we can get suckered again, no doubt.
“A Stormont that is only possible by the grace and favour of Sinn Fein is not worth having.”