Time the UUP stopped talking Lisburn down

WITH their internal bickering and the risk of implosion, the UUP are becoming increasingly desperate to find a coherent message to convince people they are still relevant. Having reached the bottom of the barrel and run out of ideas, their last resort is to attack the DUP and to claim they will stand up for Lisburn. So why haven’t they been doing that before? All they seem capable of doing is talking Lisburn down.
By The Newsroom
Published 4th Apr 2011, 15:19 BST

They bizarrely blame the DUP for the increasing unemployment which we all know is due to the effects of the worst recession in decades.

Where were the UUP when Jeffrey Donaldson and others fought and won the battle to retain Coca Cola in Lisburn against stiff competition from Dublin, thus securing hundreds of local jobs?

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The same DUP that was instrumental in bringing the multi-million pound investment by Dobbies to Lisburn. No one is fighting harder to secure John Lewis for Sprucefield than our local MP, MLAs and Councillors. Many times I have heard Jeffrey, Edwin and others fighting our corner on radio or TV against the self serving commercial interests who run to court at the drop of a hat in their desperate campaign to stop John Lewis coming to Sprucefield.

Why don’t the UUP turn their guns on the people who are really to blame for blocking John Lewis or are they afraid to stand up to them?

We have a Mayor who is not afraid to confront Belfast in their own front yard, in contrast to previous UUP incumbents who can talk the talk but won’t walk the walk.

The DUP has and will continue to fight hard for Lisburn, just as they fought for the funding for the new College in Castle Street, the new Bus Station in the City Centre, the investment in Castle Gardens and Wallace Park, the new schools at Brookfield and Ballinderry and the Lisburn Adult Resource Centre in Wallace Avenue.

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For sure there have been setbacks, but not for lack of trying on the part of our local DUP representatives. No one fought harder for the National Stadium than Edwin Poots - to blame him or any other local DUP representative for the decision not to proceed is well wide of the mark.

The DUP is committed to developing the Maze site for the benefit of the community and shortly we will see the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society relocate from Belfast to Lisburn. Why aren’t the UUP trumpeting this and other successes for Lisburn? Its time they stopped talking Lisburn down.

Finally, I noted that even though the UUP are fielding a dozen candidates in the elections in Lisburn there is not a single female face among them. What does that say about the Party’s appeal to half the voting population?

Brenda Hale

DUP Candidate

Lagan Valley

Related topics:LisburnDUPUUPEdwin PootsMayorJeffrey DonaldsonBelfastJohn Lewis