“People have criticised me for presenting myself as the “candidate for change” in the forthcoming election.
“But change isn’t just built on newness and novelty. Real, meaningful, deliverable change has to be built on experience, allied to a vision and a thought-out agenda for the future.
“I have that experience.
“And standing with the full support of a national party behind me I am also able to offer the electorate something new: a political and electoral force which spans the entire United Kingdom and which can ensure that the people of Northern Ireland will have their views heard and heeded at the very heart of government in Brussels and Westminster. That is new. That is change.
“I believe that people in Northern Ireland want change. I believe they want to know that the concerns they have—-on taxation, the economy, foreign policy, the European Union and a wide range of other matters which are dealt with at Westminster and Brussels—-are fully and accurately reflected.
“No other candidate can offer that at this election, because no other candidate will be an integral member of a national party. That’s the change that the ‘Conservatives and Unionists’ are offering on June 4.
“I am asking people to vote for change at this election and I can assure them that we in the ‘Conservatives and Unionists’ will build upon that vote in the years ahead and continue to bring change at every level of politics here. I offer a credible prospect of much needed change. The other candidates offer the same-old, same-old.
CHANGE IS COMING latest news entry on voteforchangeni.com posted on 11 May 2009.