DUP LEADER Peter Robinson must face reality, accept that mandatory coalition does not work and part from "Sinn Féin/IRA", MEP Jim Allister told the first annual conference of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party in Belfast.
TUV leader Mr Allister said he challenged the First Minister, Mr Robinson, to accept that sharing power with Sinn Féin was "irredeemably flawed" and "will never fail again because it will never be tried again".
Sharing power with Sinn Féin could be resisted through the unity of unionism and through negotiation to see whether voluntary coalition could be agreed.
Mr Allister used much of his speech to attack the DUP and Mr Robinson for continuing in the executive with Sinn Féin.
He said being a DUP speechwriter must be easy these days - "all they have to do is dust down an old Trimble speech and assure the gormless [that] all is well".
"What a jackpot for the Provos to be told, after decades of seeking to bomb Northern Ireland out of existence and butchering thousands of its best and bravest citizens, you can have, for as long as it takes to attain your blood-tarnished united Ireland, a guaranteed place in the government of the place whose name you will not even speak.
"And all the time you can peddle and promote the extraction of Northern Ireland from the UK through the high office that you hold.
"Look at the pitiful sight of Peter Robinson over recent weeks. The Provos bring the same blackmail and bully-boy tactics to government as they used for decades on the streets through bombing and murder, and all the 'joint First Minister' can do is wag his 'bad dog' finger and threaten 'serious consequences', and the dog responds by barking in his face and eyeing him up as a suitable lamppost.
"A DUP First Minister impotent in the face of Sinn Féin belligerence. That is the indignity, the humiliation to which unionism has been brought," said Mr Allister.
He asked how much Mr Robinson would put up with from Sinn Féin. "Iris rightly rails against civil partnerships, but there is as much political immorality in partnering wicked, unrepentant IRA/Sinn Féin in the government of the province where they practised genocidal murder."
He called on Mr Robinson to rise to the challenge of abandoning Sinn Féin.
"Why should cross-community government not be attained, as anywhere else, through voluntary coalition and even qualified majorities, with those able to agree in government and those outside in a meaningful opposition.
"Let me make it clear, we are not opposed to Catholics in government, or cross-community government, but we most unashamedly are implacably opposed to terrorists in government. Yes, when it comes to government I wouldn't have a Provo about the place!"
Mr Allister, who broke away from the DUP over sharing power with Sinn Féin, was formally chosen by the conference as candidate for the European elections in June. He said that in the meantime, if Assembly or other elections were triggered, the TUV would "fight that too, and with a big enough bloc of traditional unionists in Stormont it'll be the end of mandatory coalition".
It was an "unmitigated con" for the DUP to call for a vote for the yet-to-be-named DUP Euro candidate to prevent Sinn Féin topping the poll.
"You can't cling to Sinn Féin in government by day and go out by night knocking doors saying 'vote DUP to resist Sinn Féin'. You can't hoist Sinn Féin to the top office in the land and then pretend concern that they might top a poll."
