TUV has warned unionists in the talks that failure to secure change in the current definition of a “victim” will render any deal on “the past” unacceptable. Commenting Jim Allister said:- “The present obscene definition of “victim”, which equates the victim with the victim-maker, must go if justice is ever to be attained for innocent […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “Today’s failure at Stormont is but the latest episode of failure by the parties of failure within the failed institutions. “The very fact that such a summit had to be convened is testimony to the chronic failure of Belfast Agreement devolution. “How many years of failure does it take […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “With speculation growing that the executive parties are set to agree a deal on “the past” it’s worth revisiting what the famous graduated response statement of 3rd July said on the issue: “The DUP and UUP will end their participation in the now fruitless Leaders talks. With OTR enquiries […]
The following is Jim Allister’s speech during yesterday’s debate in the Assembly: “The murder by the IRA of Paul Quinn was truly horrific, and it instantly gave rise to totally brazen and disingenuous spinning by Sinn Féin. At the time that that horrific murder occurred, it was, as it still is, politically inconvenient. It is […]
Reacting to comments by the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights Nils Muizneiks Jim Allister said: “Nils Muizneiks’s comments will cut little ice with innocent victims who have seen millions of Euros pumped into ex-prisoner groups and facilities like the Ti Chulainn Centre in South Armagh where children posed as terrorists for photographs. Where […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “On 16th October the DUP issued a statement in the name of Peter Weir saying that “No self-respecting Unionist will be present in any meeting to discuss internal Northern Ireland business where a seat at the table is given to the Irish representatives”. “This appeared to be a welcome […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “Of course it is right that Junior minister Jennifer McCann should be pursued and called to account in the Assembly over her actions and inactions in the Mairia Cahill case, but there is something hypocritical in the DUP’s blind eye approach to the fact that they are content to […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “I was shocked to discover today that the Police Ombudsman’s office has written to victims’ families advising them that due to a loss of 25% of the staff involved in what they term “historic investigations” the work on the cases “cannot be completed before 2025”. “Some of those who […]
Statement by TUV Leader, Jim Allister:- “The Kingsmills Inquest is being frustrated by the failure of the Garda to cooperate. For months the Coroner has been asking them for files and for months they have failed to respond. The matter has been commented on several times in the Coroner’s Court, most recently on Friday 3rd […]
TUV has described the policy of delivering an end to the HET by starving it of funds as a political ploy to try and induce unionists to agree a fresh legacy approach, such as envisaged in Haass. TUV leader Jim Allister said, “Sinn Fein has long demanded the end of the HET. Now, by starving it of […]