Unionists urged to join new anti-power-sharing group
Friday, 7 December 2007
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Unionists opposed to the DUP's power-sharing deal with Sinn Fein are being invited to join a new political movement in the North.
Former hardline DUP MEP Jim Allister has set up the Traditional Unionist Voice, which rejects the current power-sharing arrangement at Stormont.
Mr. Allister, who left the DUP in protest at the party's decision to share power with Sinn Fein, says thousands of grassroots unionists feel betrayed by the move.
He claims to branches of his new movement have been established in 12 of the North's 18 Westminster constituencies.
The Traditional Unionist Voice, he says, will occupy the ground wantonly abandoned by others for the sake of office.
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