Rates hardship under UUP

Firstly, is this the same Mr McNickle who received a huge amount of votes (164) as a member of the UUP at the last Council elections and is he really suggesting that somehow they were the business and rate-payers’ friend?As a businessman and rate-payer I have vivid memories of the hardship and pain that businesses in Lisburn suffered under the stewardship of the UUP, in particular the 9% rate rises under the chairmanship of Cllr Crawford.

As a businessman I know all too well the pressures the recession has brought to the business community in Lisburn and it is for this reason that I am shocked that Mr McNickle has not highlighted that this is the seventh successive year that Lisburn City Council has delivered below inflation rate-rise, once again leaving Lisburn as the third lowest rates out of 26 councils and the lowest rates of any city.

Realistic Businessman