TUV will not repeat DUP mistake
ASKED whether his party would adopt the old DUP position of going into the Executive "to wreck it from within", Jim Allister says: "I think that was a mistake in the past.
"There is no way that we would be operating mandatory coalition.
"We would be there to thwart it and to force others to see if they are really going to work mandatory coalition in circumstances where a sizable block of unionism is outside it," he says.
His hope is that the power-sharing Executive collapses because his section of unionism refuses to participate.
"Are they going to subject unionism to that minority control?
"Are they going to subject unionism to the psychologically significant, if not legally significant, position of Martin McGuinness as First Minister?
"The DUP will have to declare whether they are willing to serve under Martin McGuinness – or is that the breaking point?
"I want to test that. I want to build that bulkhead of unionists in the Assembly to test that.
"I believe that if we can have sufficient (MLAs) then mandatory coalition will fall apart."
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