HAMPTON — Premier Ethan McAllister has launched his long anticipated political party, the Liberal Conservative Party.
The LCP will be New Ulster’s second political party and launches just 5 days after its first, the Democratic Party.
The NUDP was founded last week by prospective MPs Stephen Cameron and Eloise Penner in what both supporters and opponents called an attempt to head off the momentum around the Premier’s campaign for re-election.
McAllister had hinted since the founding of New Ulster that he would launch his own party but it was thought he was reluctant once Cameron and Penner announced the NUDP on August 19, not wanting to be seen as a ‘copycat’.
However, it seems rumours of reversed decision were unfounded and the Premier was buoyant when announcing his new party today.
‘The Lib-Cons are about common sense,’ the Premier said, ‘we’re about getting the best out of, and doing the best for, New Ulster.’
The party has pledged to double the number of citizens of New Ulster by the end of the year as well as committed to an economic plan that would see the creation of a new currency and the manufacture of what McAllister calls ‘goods for sale’.
Many, however, are questioning the effectiveness of launching a political party so late in the election campaign — just 6 days before Election Day.
Despite this, McAllister has at least drawn praise for having an electoral platform, unlike the Democratic Party which launched without any policy initiatives and remains silent on such.
Election Day is Monday, August 30.
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