UUP accuses DUP of lying and scaremongering
Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble has accused the DUP of scaremongering and lying in the run-up to the Assembly election in the North later this month.
Speaking in Belfast today, Mr Trimble said the DUP was vowing not to sit in a power-sharing Executive with Sinn Féin in the absence of IRA decommissioning and disbandment. "In 1999, they broke that pledge themselves while decommissioning hadn’t even begun," he added.
Mr Trimble also said the DUP was trying to scare voters by claiming the Good Friday Agreement would lead to a united Ireland and added that this scaremongering could backfire on the hardline anti-agreement party.
"The DUP’s style of campaigning is counter-productive," he said.
"What this canvassing material does is cause considerable irritation to our supporters who have looked at that and their jaws have just dropped in amazement at the effrontery of the lies that the DUP tell."
