North Antrim - Ea2

Election Communication

North Antrim Constituency

Jayne Dunlop “Alliance is working to build a

“Improving community relations must be the biggest priority for our Assembly - not an optional extra. Only Alliance is providing credible answers to the problem of how we deal with our divisions.”

united community in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not the ceiling of our ambition, but the

“Only Alliance asks the awkward questions that need to be asked, and raises the difficult issues that need to be raised.”

foundation on which we can build a shared society. “Alliance is working for an open, free and fair society. Only Alliance rejects the notion that we must all be boxed into ‘two communities’. “Alliance is working to give everyone something better than tribal politics – a genuinely shared future.”

North Antrim

THURSDAY 29th MAY 2003

www.allianceworks.org Published by Michael Campbell on behalf of Jayne Dunlop, both at 64 Glenhugh Park, Ahoghill, Ballymena, BT42 1LR. Printed by GPS Colour Graphics, Alexander Road, Belfast, BT6 9HF.

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Jayne Dunlop

Alliance Works ~ Tribal Politics Doesn’t www.allianceworks.org

Jayne Dunlop Works

• Active campaigner for community relations, and has supported the massgoers during the Harryville protest. • Fighting current proposals for a Lignite mine in the Ballymoney area. • Supporting sympathetic development of the Interpretive Centre at the Giant's Causeway and lobbying for greater Government involvement in the process. • Outspoken in opposition to racism and paramilitary activity. • Campaigner for better road safety, for streets free from dog-dirt, and better planning laws. • Anti-drugs campaigner, supporter of the needle exchange programme in Northern Ireland. • Supporter of Fair Trade products and organic produce, and is lobbying for the greater use of locally-produced food.

North Antrim While the Assembly was working, Alliance members established a high reputation for their work both in the Assembly and in their constituencies. Locally, David Ford made more speeches in the Assembly than any of the other five MLAs – and asked more questions than all of them put together. Alliance supports the Agreement, but is opposed to the petty sectarianism of traditional politicians, which has damaged the opportunity to make real changes in Northern Ireland. You can no longer depend on the other parties to make the Agreement work for everyone. Alliance has shown that it can make a real difference. We will continue to work to build a united community.

Five Years of Wasted Opportunities The Agreement has yet to be properly implemented. Traditional parties have pursued their own narrow agendas and bickered over issues such as policing reform rather than working together for the good of all. Even today, rather than looking to a shared future together, the UUP and the SDLP are moving to the extremes, looking over their shoulders at the DUP and Sinn Féin. Meanwhile on the streets, sectarianism, segregation and law and order remain major problems. Sectarianism Costs Sectarianism and segregation carry huge human and financial costs. More and more people are living almost parallel lives with a bare minimum of contact with those on ‘the other side’. Huge resources are wasted in providing separate facilities that could be better invested in improving public services. Why do we persist in forcing people into boxes called unionism and nationalism? Apartheid never worked in South Africa. It can never work here. Making the Difference Healing our community divisions must be the biggest priority for the Assembly. Unless we seriously address these problems, they will eventually destroy the Agreement and all that has been achieved so far. Alliance is the leading cross-community and anti-sectarian voice in Northern Ireland. Alliance is the political voice of those who work to create a united community, characterised by sharing not separation. Alliance offers everyone an invitation to join something different, something better than tribal politics – a genuinely shared and non-sectarian future. For Alliance, the Agreement is not the ceiling of our ambition. It is the foundation on which we can build a better future.

The full Assembly Manifesto, and detailed policy papers are available from www.allianceworks.org or by phoning 9032 4274

Jayne Dunlop

Alliance Works ~ Tribal Politics Doesn’t Back in 1998, people voted for a new beginning. While in many respects Northern Ireland is better than before, the progress that people had a right to expect has not occurred.