SDLP slams latest DUP election broadcast

The SDLP has slammed the Democratic Unionist Party’s continual claims that the Good Friday Agreement will lead to a nationalist-dominated society where unionists are side-lined.

Last night, the DUP’s latest election broadcast showed what the party claimed would be happening in five years if the Good Friday Agreement was not scrapped.

The broadcast showed newspaper headlines announcing that Bertie Ahern had officially opened the new Stormont session, that all Orange Order parades had been banned, that the Irish language was compulsory in all schools and that Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly had inspected police recruits at a passing out ceremony.

The SDLP described the broadcast as electronic intimidation showing the DUP as nothing more than a party of hatred.

The nationalist party also said the DUP’s entire election campaign was based on fear, sectarianism and lies.