The SDLP accused Mr Adams of deploying the same argument as those who oppose an inquiry into allegations of security force collusion in the 1989 killing of solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalists.
Dolores Kelly, the SDLP's justice spokeswoman and a member of Northern Ireland Policing Board, said: "This was the week when the former head of the Stevens inquiry team investigating collusion revealed at the Billy Wright inquiry that RUC Special Branch failed to let people know they were being targeted by loyalists, some of whom were subsequently shot dead.
The price he has secured, in collusion with a powerful grouping in the cabinet, is Gordon Brown's head – though not yet.
He was quick to thank his compatriots for their gesture – though it has been unkindly suggested that his tweets may have been an attempt to spin collusion into sportsmanship.
If Tim Montgomerie's pre-speech summary on ConservativeHome is correct – it often is – then Cameron is going further with a triple whammy against automatic access to benefits and to social housing, as well as Cleggish-fines for employers who avert their gaze: not easily done because both employer and worker stand to benefit from collusion.
"How do we know that there is no collusion?
They were shown evidence of collusion with traders at JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland, Hayes' own bank UBS, as well as two brokerage firms, which in turn applied pressure to other banks including France's Société Générale.
The Kerr murder has again raised the spectre of collusion between the security forces and agents belonging to paramilitary organisations who commit crimes while on the state's payroll.
Yet it is hard to find residents who share the government's apparent surprise at the level of collusion in their city.
The rules against collusion seem like a hangover from 1903, straight out of the Henri Desgrange playbook and his detestation of any collaboration at all between riders.
All Tunisians knew that the fall of Ben Ali was not only because of the ideological sterility of his government, but also because his large-scale pillaging of the country in collusion with the Trabelsis was about to be exposed.
