Sammy set to take on Wilson

TRADITIONAL Unionist Voice has announced that the party's Press Officer, Sammy Morrison, will contest the East Antrim seat in the upcoming Westminster election.

By The Newsroom

Published 8th Apr 2010, 10:33 BST

Updated 13th Apr 2010, 21:45 BST

Commenting after he was unanimously selected by the TUV’s East Antrim Association, Mr Morrison said: “I am honoured to have been selected by the local TUV Association to contest East Antrim and am really looking forward to the incoming month of campaigning.

“In 2005 East Antrim elected Sammy Wilson on a manifesto which pledged that mandatory coalition with Sinn Fein/IRA was “out of the question”. Today he is part of the very thing he promised the people he would oppose.

“This election provides people with an opportunity to pass judgement on terrorists in government, the chaos brought to education and the DUP’s gifting Sinn Fein/IRA a toxic veto on every legislative and funding proposal affecting the new Justice Department.”