Feb 11
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Sinn Féin tell UUP to stop messing about
Fermanagh South Tyrone Sinn Féin Assembly candidate Seán Lynch has challenged the UUP Leader Tom Elliot on his comments that the UUP are edging towards leaving the power sharing executive by 2015.
He accused the UUP of attempting to drag the country back to unionist majority misrule, political immaturity and of shirking their responsibilities to ordinary people.
Mr Lynch said: “The recent outburst by Tom Elliot is yet another example of the UUP’s inability to accept the new political landscape. And given the performance of the UUP Health Minister in the past few weeks and his disappearing act in the face of his department stumbling from one crisis to another, many may not notice if the UUP departed from the Executive fulltime.”
“The UUP need to wake up and realise that Unionist majority misrule is a thing of the past, Sinn Féin have resigned it to the dustbin of history. Tom Elliot needs to look no further than this constituency last year when the combined forces of unionism and the SDLP failed in their attempt of installing a Tory as MP.”
“Sinn Féin will stand by the Good Friday Agreement and not allow a dilution of the power sharing checks and balances contained within it. We will dedicate our energies to representing and assisting people at these difficult times. The UUP need to stop their messing about, and get on with the real job at hand of working with everyone in the executive and All Ireland institutions to deliver for ordinary people on the ground.”
