Reacting to the failure of a Sinn Fein and SDLP Minister to force the PSNI to remove a small loyalist bonfire Jim Allister said:
“This is a victory for a small Unionist community who took on two executive Ministers and won.
“Shamefully in this struggle to remove a couple of hundred pallets in an entirely loyalist area public money was squandered in funding this futile challenge.
“If Sinn Fein and the SDLP have any decency they will refund the cost of this case to the public. Both Ministers have done huge damage to community relations as well as wasting money. They need to consider their position.”