The Labour Party has reached “the point of desperation”, if it approached Sinn Féin with a view to forming a coalition after this year’s election, according to the Conservatives’ East Belfast PPC, Neil Wilson. Neil made his comments after Pat Doherty MP claimed on Channel 4 News that his party had been ‘badgered’ by opposition front-benchers.
“Mr Doherty alleges that senior members of the Shadow Cabinet are trying to persuade Sinn Féin MPs to take their seats at Westminster, after the next election, with a view to forming a coalition”, Neil explained. “If his claims are true, it’s a clear sign of the Labour Party’s desperation to take power, at all costs. Sinn Féin is committed to destroying the UK, it portrays itself as something approaching Marxist and it recently welcomed the election of the Greek party, Syriza, which is a threat to financial stability across the whole continent of Europe. If the Labour Party wants votes in Northern Ireland, it should have the guts to stand here, rather than supposedly going after the party of Gerry Kelly and Gerry Adams.”
“If Mr Doherty’s allegations are accurate, it indicates senior Labour figures are prepared to shackle themselves to a party of political and economic basket-cases, who stand against more or less any common-sense policy you could mention, just to get their hands on the levers of power. It’s another reason to oppose a party which wants to put the UK’s recovery at risk and revisit the policies which took the country into financial disaster. The only way for people in Northern Ireland to prevent Eds Miliband and Balls from taking the keys to Downing Street is to vote for their local Conservative candidate. A vote for any of the current Stormont parties is effectively a vote for a Labour prime minister.”