David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am glad that Michael D. Higgins has at last announced his candidacy. I hope there will be a contest and an election as I believe it is important for the office of President. I might find myself voting for him if he is the best candidate but the people who are on the wireless all the time should stop farting about and should start looking for nominations. It would show that they are serious about it.

In respect of the resignations of Boris Johnson and David Davis, I am absolutely delighted they are gone. Mrs. May should have fired them long ago as they are useless. As Senator Bacik pointed out yesterday, Boris Johnson made a complete and utter bags of his resignation letter. He put in two paragraphs blackguarding the European Union for preventing him, as Lord Mayor of London, from introducing regulations that would have affected the windows of articulated lorries and the placing of mirrors when, in fact, it was the British Tory Government that prevented it and the proposal actually came from the European Union. What an idiot. Now he is up the creek polishing one of his own little turds, to use his own words. I laughed at him when he said the poor United Kingdom would be a colony. It is about bloody time. It colonised three quarters of the rest of the world so they might have a lash at what it feels like to be a colony. I am half English but I am bloody delighted.