Our Beliefs: Honesty
We believe in the concept of the open society, where both the state's politicians and government are responsive and tolerant and the political system is transparent and flexible.
Every citizen also has the duty to be honest in setting out what they require and expect from their elected representatives. They should be prepared to (without fear nor favour) reject those who no longer meet up to their requirements and expectations at the next possible electoral opportunity.
Unionists must be honest in, not only recognising the mistakes that their movement has made in the past, but also in specifying what kind of future Union that they envisage with the rest of the UK. They should be honest with themselves in assessing the likely consequences of both this vision and also their present voting preferences.
Unionist politicians should use the media channels solely as a means of communication and not for self-promotion nor the "spinning" of a particular party-line; they should have confidence in the electorate being intelligent enough to draw its own conclusions from the truth when it is broadcast from either television or newspaper.
We believe "irresponsible criticism - the eagerness to expose and publicise a problem, unmatched by the willingness to propose feasible solutions - is perhaps the most common form of dishonesty in politics."1 In keeping with this belief, we believe it is vitally important that politicians desist from pandering to populism induced by media pressure, instead they should be making the tough decisions that are right for Northern Ireland.
1Alexsander Kwasniewski, President of Poland 1995-2005