TUV has published a leaflet to mark the 20th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement. Highlighting the failures of the Agreement it pulls no punches in contrasting what it promised with what it delivered.
Commenting Jim Allister said:
“With some putting on a brave face, as they attempt to celebrate the failed Agreement, we thought we’d bring a dose of reality to the proceedings by pointing out that its central architecture of mandatory coalition has crumbled and will never work. And with some of its initial opponents now its practitioners, we thought it necessary to restate the rational and reasonable basis for opposition to its flawed approach.”
Speaking of what it calls “the perverse legacy of the Belfast Agreement” the leaflet says “The Belfast Agreement not only imposed a perverse and unworkable system of government, it corrupted the judicial process. Its obscene release of hundreds of convicted terrorists (428), who had been rightly given long sentences, made a mockery of both the legal process and their innocent victims. The ascendancy afforded by the Agreement to terrorists continued both in their passage into government and in the infamous ‘On the Run’ letters, as serial concessions became the order of the day.”
Pointing out the deception at the heart of the Agreement, the TUV leaflet says unionists who voted for it thought it represented a settlement but to republicans it was only ever a stepping stone to Irish unity, through a process that requires to be fed by constant concessions.
Download it here.