"24 months ago the Prime Minister pledged in his own handwriting, 

“Those who use or threaten violence excluded from the Government of Northern Ireland. Prisoners kept in unless violence is given up for good.”

This was the decisive plank in the yes campaign and was crucial to his success in the referendum. Today whilst everyone in Northern Ireland accepts that none of the mainstream paramilitary organizations have given up guns, bombs, the use or the threat of violence, terrorist prisoners are out and Sinn Fein were in Government. 

To break his pledges is to betray the trust and hopes of citizens of the United Kingdom and then to lie about it is the mark of a politician more interested in spin than reality. Mr Blair should be ashamed of his actions. 

Within two years there will be an election. Regardless of what view the electorate in Great Britain take about Northern Ireland they don’t like politicians who tell lies. We in Northern Ireland know that you can’t trust Tony. We shall make it our business to ensure the people of Great Britain know the same. 

Mr Blair at the last General Election published cards with his pledges to the electorate. At the next election he can expect cards with the record of broken pledges on Northern Ireland. It is incredible that at a time when the Prime Minister’s word has been broken he has the nerve to ask that Unionists trust Sinn Fein/IRA. It is about time that the Prime Minster honoured his word and his pledges. 

The Prime Minister may prefer to forget what he said to the people of Northern Ireland. The DUP will make the electorate in Great Britain remember. They can decide whether murder, punishment beatings and exclusions constitute the use of or threat of violence. Mr Blair must then spin his way out of that reality.”