UUP-Conservative link is the first serious challenge to the Sinn Fein agenda

Danny Kennedy MLA, the Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, said today that the new alliance between the Ulster Unionist party and the Conservative Party was the first serious challenge to the Sinn Fein agenda whereas the DUP had simply rolled over for Sinn Fein, presenting them with no obstacle whatsoever in their drive to impose their narrow republican and second-hand and second-rate marxist agenda on Northern Ireland.

"I have no doubt that the new alliance between the UUP and the Conservative Party will serve Northern Ireland well and bring the Province deeper within the union, strengthening our standing and participation in the future government of the UK and presenting the Sinn Fein agenda with its first serious and determined challenge while opening the prospect of wide participation in the political process, national politics and political and real pound-in-your-pocket issues to the entire people of Northern Ireland."

"UK national politics has at last arrived in Northern Ireland in a way which offers voters, for the first time, an opportunity to get involved in issues like taxation policy, the pound in your pocket and in the national economic recovery plan. All the DUP has become is a local party with no national credibility and no agenda other than holding on to office - rather than being a party of action. They have been in office for a year and a half now and what have they done or achieved - answers on the back of a postage stamp, please."