I would sooner vote for SF before considering Labour.
They need to go the same way of the greens, into the wilderness.
I quite like the Greens; they remained true to their values and their TD's were intelligent, articulate and decent people. We could do with a few more like them.
intelligent!!! They propped FF up during the bank bailout/guarantee period....giving their nod of approval in late night phone calls without having a clue what they were agreeing to!!!
They had Paul Gogarty amongst them!!! Paul Gogarty!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugailEn8U5o
Labour are now at 6% in the polls. This despite sticking reasonably close to the programme for government that they agreed with Fine Gael and having some high profile ministers.
Joan Burton has done a good job, maybe an excellent job, as minister for Social Protection (terribly Orwellian name for a Department).
Brendan Howlin has done almost nothing to reform the Public Sector so that should keep a large chunk of Labours core supporters happy.
Ruairi Quinn is perhaps the most controversial Labour has been the most controversial minister due to his reform agenda but is probably a victim of circumstance to some extent as the Unions seek to reverse their own shafting of new entrants to the sector.
Eamonn Gilmore has been quite low profile as leaders. His sycophantic fawning at the heels of the UK Queen was stomach turning but was vastly overshadowed by that far more extreme manifestation of the same by our President. Given that Labour have a middleclass urban support base I don’t see why such behaviour would have a major impact on their ratings.
So why the collapse? Is it simply that Leftwing parties always do badly in government? Is it the fact that reality requires hard choices and that Socialism (or whatever version of it Labour now espouse) is just too far from reality to work in practice?
I see posters from People Against Logic (AKA People Against Profit) and the Socialist Party where I live with stupid meaningless slogans like “Enough is Enough”. This is where Labour’s support is going; there is now another option for people who don’t like reality. They can vote for the Loony Left and the Shinners. Bad timing for a party that thrives in the rhetoric of illogical idealism while in opposition but now finds itself in power.
The reality is that Labour have done quite a good job in government but Labour doesn’t sell reality so it’s supporters are following someone else’s yellow brick road to sunshine and unicorn land.
intelligent!!! They propped FF up during the bank bailout/guarantee period....giving their nod of approval in late night phone calls without having a clue what they were agreeing to!!!
Labour have done a terrible job in government.
The electorate were promised a new way of "doing politics" and both FG/Labour had massive public support to do so.
In return every election pledge by Labour was dumped by them and FG attacked middle income earners ferociously for numerous stealth taxes, LPT and its new HSE style quango of Irish Water.
Both parties’ had a wonderful opportunity to make politics ethical moral and fair, instead they are utterly the same gutter politics as practised by Fianna Fail, sleazy cronyism coupled with even worse unfair regressive taxes that have hurt the poor and the lowest income earners the most.
They will now pay for it beginning in May. Labour will be decimated with Fine Gael receiving only its core vote.
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