📻 'I think that this just says that this whole system is flawed'

Finance Spokesperson Dr Steve Aiken OBE on Good Morning Ulster this morning discussing the Executives Budget following yesterday's vote in the Assembly.

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Today, in the Speaker's Office Mr Mike Nesbitt MLA,
Mike Nesbitt, Ulster Unionist Party, affirmed the pledge of office to become Department of Health Minister.

Alex Easton has effectively endorsed the DUP's stance that the STU deal is a 'work in progress,' contradicting the TUV's position.

The TUV's support for Easton and their planned sabotage of other Unionists who hold a similar view to Easton now appears inconsistent and illogical.

The Conservatives are halfway out the door. How on earth is this deal a work in progress.

Sammy Morrison 🇬🇧 - you support this idea? #GE24

Best person for the job! Tim will be an MP North Down can feel proud to have representing them. He has the intellect and ability to make a difference. Northern Ireland will reap benefits by his presence in Parliament. NI need friends in Westminster. Tim will find them.

Top, top man. The future.

If you want Smart, vote Smart!

📰Fermanagh & South Tyrone Unionist Association endorse Ulster Unionist Candidate Diana Armstrong

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Some of my rays of sun shine on a drizzly night in Lisburn. Thanks to all of those out on the doors today taking the #BackButler message to the people
Linsey Gibson #HopeNotFear #UnionOfPeople

This was a moment wherein Ulster Unionist Party stood firm to principles. Health of our society goes beyond our Political affiliations, this was always about the costly denigration the Bill passed would have on the Health Portfolio & the Service. Now is the time to listen to the Message.

Today 4 of your West Tyrone MLAs voted to cut the Health Budget by £184 million.

Shame on you:
Tom Buchanon- DUP
Declan McAleer- Sinn Fein
Nicola Brogan- Sinn Fein
Maolíosa McHugh- Sinn Fein

You promised us an improved Health Budget and today you went back on that promise.

Just watched a very nasty attack by a Sinn Fein MLA on the very polite Mike Nesbitt As Robin Swann rightly says - don’t judge by your standards. Health isn’t sectarian.The liars in every other party promised to prioritise the nhs. Voters should hold those parties to account

This is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Instead of cliché affirmations about happiness, it's filled with witty, sarcastic affirmations.

Here are my 10 favorite quotes from the book:

Alliance Party representatives bemoaning the Health Minister resigning would be funny were it not breathtakingly hypocritical.

🚨❗️Budget passes at Stormont

Just hours from now Mike Nesbitt becomes Health Minister.

Ulster Unionist Party voted against budget - Political Reporter James puts to Leader Doug Beattie that Mr Nesbitt will now have to work with budget he doesn't support.

- Cuts?
- More 💰?

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43,074 leaflets have been distributed across North Down - so far!

👏Thank you to #TeamTC for all their hard work

Delighted that NI Commissioner for Children and Young People has met with Fatima Whitbread to hear her powerful story and the importance of #FosterCare

If you’ve ever considered Fostering please please do it!

In voting against today’s budget Robin Swann says he is not “complying with the ministerial code”. Something he says he doesn’t do easily but says he’s a “greater responsibility to defend vital services, to stand up for patients &staff & to oppose cuts that will cause harm”.

You couldn’t make it up - 100+ days to do something then now this…. Meanwhile we’re rushing ahead with a budget, knowing there’s substantial additional monies in June monitoring but still no prioritisation… because we have no PfG 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️Jayne McCormack Ulster Unionist Party

Listening to DUP Northern Ireland Assembly members today during budget debate you’d think their living in a parallel universe - maybe they are (other parties also apply) 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️Ulster Unionist Party