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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Stuff and nonsense

June 13, 2008 24:00
2 min read

A fine two days I choose to go away! David Davis goes, er, bonkers and Ireland goes utterly sane.

Actually, thrilled as I am that Ireland has stuck two fingers up to the conspiracy to impose a new constitution on the EU, if I was Irish I'd probably have voted yes. From a purely selfish, Irish perspective the EU has been an undiluted boon, and I'd want to have stayed as close to that gravy train as possible. But thank heavens there are enough Irish who don't think like that, and who are prepared to do what they needed to do for the rest of us.

As for David D, I am stunned that such an apparently shrewd, clever man can be so completely stupid. Let's assume that things panned out as he had wished, and he won a thumping majority against Labour in the by-election. So what? What would it have achieved? Nothing. A big fat nada, other than to remove from the post of Shadow Home Secretary a man committed to the abolition of 42 days. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.