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Ireland.com Poll establishes Shannon is an election issue
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Tuesday September 26, 2006 18:21 by Sinéad Ní Bhroin on behalf of - PANA
pana@eircom.net PANA’s Chairperson Roger Cole today welcomed the results of the weekends Ireland.com poll. 52% of respondents answered ‘Yes’ to the question ‘Will the use of Shannon airport by the US military be an issue in next year's general election, as suggested by anti-war groups.’ |
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Jump To Comment: 1All you're doing is guaranteeing the return of the FF/PD government by highlighting the incompatibility between the parties in the alternative coalition. FF and the PDs will most definitely reply in the negative to your request. There is total unity between them. So, its no problem for them. But, from the alternative coalition FG will also say 'no' to your request while Labour and the Greens will probably say 'yes'. Totally incompatible positions. As long as Shannon isn't a major issue in the election, no one will notice. But, if you succeed in making Shannon a major issue, the alternative coalition will break up even before the campaign starts since you can't have a coalition government between parties (Labour and Greens) who solemnly pledge they won't go into government unless the Americans are booted out of Shannon and a party (FG) who can be one hundred per cent guaranteed not to agree to that. Of course, the other possibility which I haven't taken into account in the above analysis is that Labour and the Greens might make a solemn and binding pledge before the election not to go into government unless the Americans are booted out of Shannon and and then totally forget about it after the election.