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Jump To Comment: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1After a general election (47 local constituency elections really) the parliamentary bosses count the numbers and put out feelers about cobbling coalitions together. Labour is always in a quandry. Its leaders 'can't go too far' in their declared fiscal policies before an election as this might frighten the economically timid floaters into the dreaded FG camp. As Labour has to be a junior partner it needs to compromise on fiscal and macro economic policies. Although it has criticised the lenient attitude of Cowen Co towards banks and well-rewarded bank officials, it can't, pre-election, declare an intention to punish the bank top brass more. If it goes into coalition with FG it finds itself up against an extreme textbook cautiousness among FG backbenchers, who historically have been more belt-tightening than FF administrations. FF have often been pragmatically spendthrift in attempts to wean voters (this cynicism can be classified as Political Economy) but at times they have gone through phases of Mack the Knife as with Ray MacShh... towards the end of the depressed 1980s. So it is possible, if numbers crunch in a hung Dail way, that after the next general election Labour could be drawn into a coalition with FF and whoever remains from a Greens wipeout.
Where will The Left figure in all this? It depends on Dail numbers.
The Man From The Labourious Party holding the picket outside Fianna Fail may be trying to give us a clue .
Could it really mean that Labour Might Just Want to Back the Horse Each way and would give their Eye Teeth to form the next Government
with Their ''colleagues '' in Fianna Fail , no matter what they say to the difference ,Remember Dick Spring could'nt wait to taste the Good Life either
and ran a sham election campaign of the day only to end up under the King Size Duvet after all he said in a negative manner then ?
Bad enough going through this man made fiscal crisis with Herr Cowen at the Helm scratching and scraping off Icebergs along his merry way
we may say, But look at the amount of Independents propping up the Colander Ship full of holes along with the Greens , Wonder how the same
said Independents will ''fare '' when they face the electorate (who put them there ) , my my hav'nt the independents remained as quiet as mice
while the ship sails through the icebergs North South East And West . Aye Aye Cap'n Blithe . Roll on The 5th June 09 .
They cant blame the Ship's Compass on all thats bad thus far , who will they blame this time round ? .................The Weather ?
Left groups spend so much energy criticising one another that their chances of influencing 'straight' society are severely reduced. Left Unity is an oxymoron. I hope a lot of independent and politically radical candidates will get elected in the coming locals and wish every candidate with talent and commitment the best of luck (but I'm too shy to say who/what exactly I'll vote for).
People before Profit are organising ''meetings '' in the Greater Dublin Area , the front will tell you its in connection with problems in your locality
when in reality its a mere smokescreen in order to get themselves elected by hook or by crook
The Labour Party lost it long ago, O'Riordán hasn't realised that yet. What has he got to say about the legitimacy of him and his parties claims to call themselves socialists? Connolly would run them out of Ireland if he were alive. Hypocrites!
Is the Labour Party losing it?
In Cork, we have recently picketed Dan Boyle's Constituency Office in relation to the Greens' role in government, and, in particular, protesting at the levies imposed on public workers, and also the lack of a pension fund for the rest of us, and at their silence about Ireland's natural resources. Even Dan Boyle himself didn't object, and he was inside the office at the time.
These protests are democratic demonstrations by people in the local community where the clinic is situated. I live in Dan Boyle's constituency, and I have a duty to my community to be visible in my opposition to the bail-out of the banks, while leaving home-owners with mortgages liable to be evicted. By handing out leaflets to our neighbours in the street during the protest, it both informs and invites community participation. It is empowering.
Full story appears in the Northside People:
http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/view/1886/55/
Also Press statement from PBPA:
http://www.peoplebeforeprofit.ie/node/80