The DUP leader Rev Ian Paisley today launched his Assembly election campaign with a vitriolic attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Rev Paisley claimed Mr Blair was trying to dupe the people of Northern Ireland about the latest bid to solve problems in the peace process.
As he formally launched his party's Assembly Election campaign in Belfast, he told Democratic Unionist colleagues that Mr Blair was "loud in the praise of those who destroy lives but he is mute in the praise of those who gave their lives to defend life".
The North Antrim MP also claimed that the truth had caught up on the Prime Minister when it emerged that the international decommissioning body had given him no more information last week on the latest IRA disarmament act.
"The hand of history evidently has removed itself from the shoulder of Prime Minister Blair to his throat and choking back his own deceit and that of (Ulster Unionist leader) David Trimble, both have been forced to bow to the mysterious sovereignty of Divine Providence.
"From the Prime Minister's lips at Hillsborough there dropped the thought - he was evidently thinking aloud - that there must be a way to let the Ulster people know what he claimed he knew about the wide extent of this latest so-called decommissioning act.
"When, however, the truth caught up on Tony Blair, his spokesman, in order to bolster the lie, maintained that the Prime Minister was simply making an educated guess when he spoke of what would have pleased all the people of Northern Ireland if they only knew what he knew."
Last week a series of choreographed moves designed to bolster the Belfast Agreement stumbled over the lack of information about the third act of IRA disarmament.
As voters in Northern Ireland prepared to go to the polls on November 26th, theDUP leader said the election would provide a real acid test of public opinion onthe Belfast agreement.
He insisted that an agreement and Assembly that had already collapsed fourtimes was a "Humpty Dumpty which cannot be put together again by the spinwizardry of Tony Blair and his bobbin boy David Trimble".
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