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Article: Blair visit lowest point since Munich; Platform: Ian Paisley sees meeting as infamous betrayal of the fallen.(News)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- December 10, 1997
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Tony Blair's refusal to revoke his Downing Street meeting with Gerry Adams on December 11 is not merely a reflection of his contempt for public opinion; it is a stark revelation of the depths of political and moral obscenity to which his Government has sunk.
It epitomises the Secretary of State's pronouncement in the Belfast Telegraph on August 29: ''Life is not about moral absolutes.''
Besides dishonouring the men and women of Ulster who fell in two World Wars to secure the freedom of Britain, the Prime Minister's latest insult to the people of Northern ...