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MAGINNESS: EUROPE CAN HELP RESTORE NORTH-WEST'S SHATTERED
ECONOMY SDLP European election candidate Alban Maginness MLA has said that a strong representation in Europe can help restore the shattered economy of the North-West.
Speaking on a visit to Limavady and the surrounding area, Mr Maginness said the people of the North-West were better off when there was SDLP representation in the European Parliament.
He said: “Like many hard working families and hard pressed firms in the North-West the SDLP laments not only the five wasted months of political leadership last year but the last five wasted years of inept representation in Europe.
“No other place has suffered more with the loss of nearly a thousand jobs in Seagate, Limavady and a further haemorrhaging of jobs in Coleraine and elsewhere.
“As businesses go to the wall and ordinary decent people suffer, Sinn Fein and the DUP have failed to show any sort of leadership.
“Of course, these parties did not create the global downturn. But they did waste much better economic circumstances in the nine years they spent opposing, delaying and destabilising our shared institutions. “And everyone will remember that our present problems manifested themselves on a Sinn Fein and DUP watch. "Europe worked best for the people of the North-West when there was SDLP representation in the European Parliament. “We worked hard to ensure that people in Derry, Limavady, Dungiven and elsewhere benefited from our contacts and experience. We never forgot that the people who elected us deserved and expected a return for their support. They don’t need reminded what the SDLP did for them in Europe.
“In the midst of the present recession there is one great certainty and that is the collective political and economic strength of the European Union and its institutions.
“I aim to pick up where John Hume left off; and succeed where our current MEPs have so dismally failed.
“I will put the needs of the people back at the top of the agenda.
“Bringing our interests to the very heart of decision-making and using the SDLP’s influence to deliver.
“Anyone in this region who recognises that European responses and international measures are needed, if we are to have financial stability and economic growth for the future, needs to support for the only party offering that manifesto – the SDLP.”
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