Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“One year on from the DUP’s ignominious return to the Stormont Executive to both enthrone Sinn Fein and implement foreign law, the scale of the lies they deployed as cover is clearer than ever.
“The dud DUP/Donaldson Deal stands exposed as a dishonest con. The Irish Sea border – far from the brazen claim that it was gone, is cranking up into full operation. The supposed Stormont Brake is a sick joke and the Union, far from being safeguarded, is being daily dismantled, with colonial Stormont meekly handing away law-making powers in 300 areas to a foreign parliament, so that in these key economic areas Northern Ireland is ruled by the same laws as the Republic! The stepping stones are being cemented by the folly of unionist implementation.
“The Donaldson/DUP deal did not even bring good government through Stormont: health waiting lists are as long as ever, public finances are in a mess, our roads are still in potholes, education is starved of funding, there is no legislation – just meaningless motions, and all that is flourishing are minister’s bank balances.
“The humiliation of unionism continues, but now with the cloak of DUP cooperation – those who can implement foreign laws made in Brussels could just as readily oblige if they were made in Dublin!
“This is the sorry pass to which the DUP/Donaldson surrender has brought us.”