Unionists dared to defend welfare cuts in their communities

THE DUP and Ulster Unionist Party have been challenged by Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay to go into unionist communities and defend their surrender to welfare cuts being forced on them by millionaire MPs in the Tory-led Westminster Parliament.

These cuts would punish the poor and the vulnerable and will drive those who are already struggling on low incomes further into poverty, the North Antrim Assembly member said.

“No one in the North, unionist or nationalist, voted for that. Welfare cuts are not part of our Programme for Government.

“The reality is that these cuts, if implemented, will have a crippling effect on individuals, on people in low-income jobs, on the disabled and on entire communities living in areas of high unemployment.”

Daithí McKay (pictured) threw down the gauntlet to DUP leader Peter Robinson and UUP leader Mike Nesbitt as well as the Alliance Party:

“I challenge unionists and those who support the Tory cuts agenda to go into their communities and attempt to explain why they are so committed to drastically lowering people's standards of living,”

“They need to explain to people struggling to get by in working-class areas the real impact of supporting a remote, unelected government of elites in London.

“Unionist leaders would be serving their electorate far better by uniting with those of us who are standing up for all communities, regardless of their political outlook, in resisting these savage cuts.”