ROBIN Newton EAST Belfast DUP MLA has welcomed Minister for the Environment Edwin Poots statement in the Assembly today on the draft Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill.

EAST Belfast DUP MLA Robin Newton in response to East Belfast TUV Westminster candidate David Vance’s latest attack on the DUP said, “His most recent angry ranting confirms what little knowledge he has of East Belfast. However, what else would we expect from a carpet bagger who couldn’t get elected to Craigavon Council? If the good people of Craigavon have no confidence in David Vance at Council level why would the sensible people of East Belfast send him to Westminster?

East Belfast DUP MLA Robin Newton has said the selection of County Armagh TUV man David Vance to fight the coming Westminster General Election for East Belfast shows Jim Allister’s difficulties in finding candidates.

EAST Belfast DUP MLAs Robin Newton and Wallace Browne have called for a unionist realignment campaign in May’s expected general election.  The time of unionists fighting unionists for a portion of the pro-union vote is long past; it is a political luxury that cannot be afforded.

ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA has said the London weekend conference of Sinn Fein, with a predictable speaker line up, once again demonstrates the daydream type thinking of these republican dogmatists.

East Belfast DUP MLA Robin Newton has described the PSNIs weekend’s arrest of those who trade in endangered wild animals as good work.

East Belfast DUP MLA Robin Newton has said the recent statements of Jim Allister, the self-appointed political Nostradamus of Northern Ireland politics, have shown him to be more of a court jester. Mr. Allister’s only interest is in scaremongering and aiding in the delivery of a Sinn Fein agenda.

East Belfast DUP MLA Robin Newton has the process of consultation with DUP members commenced on Friday evening at a meeting of the East Belfast Westminster Constituency Association.

Robin Newton East Belfast DUP MLA has said the out of the blue blow of 210 redundancies in the Hughes Christensen plant is a bitter pill for the company’s loyal workforce to swallow.

Robin Newton East Belfast DUP MLA has condemned those responsible for two East Belfast armed robberies carried out within 24 hours of each other. Mr. Newton extended his heart-felt sympathy to those caught up in the incidents and said these robberies will leave the young staff in both the businesses feeling traumatised for some time.