We need some new cliches

[ceemage]

The exit polls suggest that the Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is going to be a Yes vote, which, according to people whose opinions on such matters I value, is a good thing. But I have a more pressing question. Why does the British media always feel the need to illustrate any story about voting in Ireland with a picture of a nun? Are we meant to assume that no-one else but nuns vote in Irish elections? Is it a nunocracy? Are British nuns presumed disenfranchised? And, more to the point, have any Irish orders cottoned on to this and managed to develop a profitable sideline in merchandising their "image rights" to British media of Sister Mary popping one in a ballot box? I think we should be told. Or, at any rate, told off.

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Er, what nun?

Nun left

[ceemage.livejournal.com]

Hey, no fair. They removed the nun in order to insert a couple of video interviews.

There *was* a nun there, honest.

I guess this is one of the perils of linking to things on a medium as dynamic as the web.