DUP Road Map useless when Different Drivers are set on taking Different Roads - Nesbitt
Responding to the publication of the DUPs road map for progress today, UUP South Down MLA Dermot Nesbitt said a road map was useless when those driving couldn’t even agree on the road to take.
Mr Nesbitt was referring to Deputy Leader’s Peter Robinson’s suggestion that the DUP might be prepared to enter a mandatory /enforced D’hondt style coalition. The DUP MEP Jim Allister on the other hand and in a separate statement noted his party’s 2005 manifesto which declared that an inclusive mandatory coalition with Sinn Fein under D’hondt was out of the question and so it should remain.
In a statement Mr Nesbitt said,
“The DUP blueprint for progress amounts to little more than a stalling exercise to avoid making and taking responsible decisions in the weeks ahead. Despite announcements that they are united and moving forward as one, even at the most basic level of establishing a road map, senior DUP drivers have a different view on which road to take.
Peter Robinson states that a mandatory coalition might be accepted while Jim Allister rules it out completely. So which is the definitive DUP position?
Unionists will have little confidence on any road map when the map readers can’t even agree which direction they are willing to go in.”