GG & Standard of Democracy
Monday, May 19, 2003
To Dale Culpin (Letters May 19), the PM may have made a provocative choice of GG. But we the people also have a part to play in our democracy. We must have standards too. We must not let any politician provoke us into wrecking our democracy.
No head of state, however appointed, is going to please every faction. Whatever the rules are at a given time, whoever the winner, whoever the loser, we cannot afford to subject the serving national figurehead to seasonal popularity tests.
Philip O'Carroll