Sir, - Is there something constitutionally wrong with the Irish that they can't understand the true concept of democracy and realise that ballot boxes can only work properly when all dissidents, deviants and those suspected of disloyalty to their masters, are excluded from the normal voting process?
It should be clear to everyone, as it is to the British government, that if all the people of Ireland - Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Hindus, or whatever - were allowed a free vote on whether Ireland should be part of the UK, the wrong result would virtually be guaranteed.
Why on earth do the Irish think that their divinely appointed British overlords - the World Champions of Democracy - after going to all the trouble and expense of conquering Ireland, divided it into two parts in 1922, if it was not to prevent the disloyal native Irish majority from unfairly outvoting the loyal right thinking minority who had been settled mostly in the north of the country? - Yours, etc.,
Cedar Hall, Millbrook Court, Milltown Road.
Dublin 6.