From: Donal Kennedy <donalmkennedy@aol.com>
To: letters <letters@independent.ie>
Sent: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 7:47
Subject: BAD HATS O’ER THE BORDER?
I found this unpublished letter (sent to the SUNDAY INDEPENDENT in 2007) during a rummage in the attic and thought you might enjoy it
Sir,
Diarmaid MacDermott (18 March) sketches an appalling vista for the South following the Northern Election.
Sinn Fein “activists have already carried out registration drives, ensuring that first-time voters and that those who traditionally don’t bother to vote are registered for Election 2007.”
The future will see “housing estates canvassed with military like discipline and local activists will ensure that that any spare votes will be snapped up.”
And Sinn Fein will make full use of Gerry Adams “who consistently polls well in opinion polls.”
And all this “should provoke thought among traditional political parties.”
Sure ye never know where this might lead, at all, at all.
At worst it might recreate the appalling vista the Duke of Wellington beheld in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832, when he remarked of the House of Commons that he’d never seen such Bad Hats in his life.
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