Voting for a good laugh

May 24 2008 by Our Correspondent, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WASN’T it Oscar Wilde who commented that “One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell (The Old Curiosity Shop) without laughing.”

I feel pretty much the same about the Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

Who could not fail to be moved to laughter if the wickedly corrupt, imperialistic and anti-democratic EU were to lose this one?

I shall not laugh if the Irish were then made to keep on voting until “they get it right” as was the case with The infamous Nice Treaty.

Les Arnott

Sheffield