DUP Assembly Member Edwin Poots MLA said the following:
“The only Unionist seeking to deliver a Sinn Fein agenda is Jim Splitter Allister who openly confesses his desire to split Unionism and thereby make Sinn Fein the largest party in Stormont. Jim Splitter Allister has a proven track record of being wrong on policing and justice issues. TUV claimed Sinn Fein was going to hold the ministry, they warned it was a step closer to a United Ireland and told us that Martin McGuinness was going to be appointing judges. On every single one of those claims TUV prophecies of impending doom have been shown to be false. No matter in what flowery language Jim Splitter Allister chooses to present his case, the reality is that it is bogus.”