Nicholson- the United Kingdom candidate on June 4th

As a UK Unionist who happens to live in Northern Ireland, I want to be represented by a party and candidates whose vision of the Union doesn't begin and end with "Keeping Ulster British", but those who accept and realise the responsibilities as well as rights our continuing British citizenship deliver us.

Jim Nicholson MEP:

"People have criticised me for presenting myself as the "candidate for change" in the forthcoming election.

"But change isn't just built on newness and novelty. Real, meaningful, deliverable change has to be built on experience, allied to a vision and a thought-out agenda for the future.

"I have that experience.

"And standing with the full support of a national party behind me I am also able to offer the electorate something new: a political and electoral force which spans the entire United Kingdom and which can ensure that the people of Northern Ireland will have their views heard and heeded at the very heart of government in Brussels and Westminster. That is new. That is change.

"I believe that people in Northern Ireland want change. I believe they want to know that the concerns they have---on taxation, the economy, foreign policy, the European Union and a wide range of other matters which are dealt with at Westminster and Brussels---are fully and accurately reflected.

"No other candidate can offer that at this election, because no other candidate will be an integral member of a national party. That's the change that the 'Conservatives and Unionists' are offering on June 4

If Northern Ireland is genuinely an integral part of the United Kingdom, then it's about time that we started showing it getting involved directly at the centre of the politics of that nation- that's the change that's on offer here.