Ulster Unionist Leader Mike Nesbitt has described the remarks Gerry Adams` made on twitter as beyond the pale and called his latest utterances contemptible.
Mike Nesbitt said:
“Gerry Adams` comments are beyond the pale. I find it extraordinary that the leader of a political party can even think to utter the words that he did. In the past he has made clear that he is happy to use equality as a ‘trojan horse’ to further his own political agenda and now this. Add his denial of membership of PIRA and Gerry Adams has no credibility. Even some within his own party must realise that now.
“To try to liken the fight against slavery to what was happening in Northern Ireland in the 1960s is contemptible. And then for him to claim that he was one of the founders of the civil rights movement. – even Martin McGuinness must be rolling his eyes at that one. The Civil Rights campaigners wanted to reform Northern Ireland not destroy it. This is just Gerry Adams trying to re-write history.
“The relative silence of the rest of the Sinn Fein leadership on this issue is deafening. Their Assembly candidates need to make their positions clear.”