Sir, - Ten years ago, not to put too fine a point on it, this country was in the doldrums. Many thousands of us left because there were simply no opportunities for us in Ireland. We served the Irish economy a very useful purpose, as in times past emigration has long been a massive safety valve for this country.
I don't think D.K. Henderson has considered, or even wanted to consider, the favour we emigrants have done by easing the burden of unemployment for himself and the others who stayed. I am fortunate in that I have a right to vote here in England, but Ms. Kelly in Switzerland, and those of us in all other countries that we have found ourselves in, do not.
D.K. Henderson, as an Irish resident, would do well to look to this country. Does not that idyllic land of Dunnes Stores payments have a rather... er, dubious record of universal suffrage? Yours, etc,
Mill Hill,
London NW7 4BY.