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Harney's Kiss of Death for Eoin Ryan!

category dublin | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Monday June 01, 2009 23:05author by Joe Higgins - Socialist Partyauthor email info at joehiggins dot eu Report this post to the editors

Joe Higgins is standing for the Dublin Constituency in the Euro Elections to be held on Friday, June 5th

Just when Fianna Fail's Dublin Euro Candidate Eoin Ryan thought it couldn't get much worse, it did. Mary Harney publicly endorsed him!

The hapless Eoin must have felt his political lifeblood chill as Harney's cold kiss of political support sealed his fate.Already spurned by many categories of workers from airport staff to teachers - all victims of Fianna Fail's slash and burn response to the Fianna Fail induced crash - now every nurse, doctor, hospital attendant and taxi driver whom Harney has alienated in her day will join the revolt.
Fianna Fail could lose their Euro Seat to Joe Higgins
Fianna Fail could lose their Euro Seat to Joe Higgins

Gay Mitchell and Proinsisa DE Rossa must have blanched a little also as Minister Harney opted for a Grand Coalition of the establishment parties to represent Dublin in the Euro parliament, but they hope nobody will notice her endorsement.

'We don't have the luxury of sending protest MEPs', arrogantly declared Minister Harney. On the contrary, we need far more MEPs who will protest vehemently in Brussels and in Dublin, against the policies of Harney's Government which are savaging the living standards of working peoople while salvaging their speculator and banker friends and their moribund system.

Minister Harney demands that vorters should not let Sinn Fein 'slip through the pass'. She may not notice that the Socialist Party is climbing steadily and poised to outflank them all!

She also says Dublin voters must 'not shoot themselves in the foot.' How blind she is. Can she not see that virtually the whole of Dublin have their 'political guns' pointed in the same direction and it is not at their feet!.

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Joe Higgins' Euro Election Website: http://www.joehiggins.eu
Latest Poll shows Joe Higgins can win Euro Seat from Eoin Ryan: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0529/...3.htm
Joe Higgins - Why I'm Standing: http://www.joehiggins.eu/2009/05/joe-higgins-why-im-sta...ding/

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author by Peterpublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 09:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

...getting behind ryan

Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan

author by Observerpublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 09:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

She may not only have put the nail in Ryan's coffin but have boosted MacDonald ahead of Higgins as the knee jerk reaction of some will obviously be to do the opposite to what Harney wants them to! On the other hand there may well be a hope on the Governmnet's part that Mitchell supporters, thinking him safe, will vote for Ryan in order to stop the Shinners. All desperation at this stage anyway. Higgins needs to be up there this week as a contender otherwise he will get squeezed out as people opt for Ryan and whoever they think will beat him. Needs to do something to grab media attention next day or two in my opinion.

author by yeah butpublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

She wasn't worried about Joe Higgins though- the establishment like Joe because they think he is funny.

All Mary Harney's ire was aimed solidly at another candidate.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/harney-battles-....html

There's been an attack on this candidate in the Independent Newspaper every day recently- there's one again today, and there'll be more tomorrow and the next day. It looks like the establishment are really scared of this candidate winning.

Can you guess who it is?

author by Joe supporterpublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 13:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I can't believe you said that the establishment are not afraid of Joe Higgins. If that is the case then why did Brian Cowen devote so much time to attacking Joe Higgins and the Socialist Party yesterday. The establishment are not afraid of Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein have proved their "loyalty" to the establishment and capitalism through their involvement in the coalition in the North with the DUP. Sinn Fein will be coalition partners with Fianna Fail or Fine Gael in the future.
Mary Lou McDonald has been an MEP for the last five years I can't name one single thing she did that frightened the establishment or one single struggle she led to against the government or the employers. Joe Higgins is known precisely because of the struggles he has led and for his opposition to the establishment parties, not his sense of humour your comment is an insult to Joe Higgins.
Sinn Fein's support in the Dublin European constituency is falling, the Socialist Party's suypport is increasing. The best way to vote against this government is to vote for Joe Higgins and to elect a proven fighter for working class people.

author by Observerpublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 13:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I think you are missing the point. The 'establishment' are not worried about some global threat to their hegemony, they are worried about the European and local elections and the general election that will follow most likely within the next year. In that scenario, it is SF that is perceived as the main 'left' threat to FF, not the SP. If it came down to it they would prefer Joe to MacDonald. That scenario might well change but not for the present. Ruling class is rather good at dealing with immediate rather than distant threats!

I do agree however that Higgins support has been underestimated and that SF will take a hit locally that will be reflected in gains for other left candidates and a constriction of the potential MacDonald vote. It will depnend a lot on how big that local non SF left vote is to how close Higgins will get to winning the EU seat.

author by blue skypublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 15:06author address author phone Report this post to the editors

THE facts are the facts- the Independent is attacking Mary Lou like she's the anti-christ, but printing puff pieces about Joe Higgins and calling him Uncle Joe-

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shades-of-dracu....html

"Joe grinned naughtily: "I had a good laugh writing that!" In fairness he has a reason for a bit of jollity; the most recent opinion poll showed him gaining two points to 9 pc, which puts him firmly in the scrap for the third seat, alongside Eoin and Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald."
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shades-of-dracu....html

They are talkinmg him up. Why?

They'd love to see people voting for Joe because every vote for the Socialist Party is not a vote for Sin Fein, who they see a real and credible threat.

author by Observerpublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 15:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Which is why Higgins will also get a substantial vote, particularly preferences, from voters who are far from socialist. Antipathy to SF has nothing to do with their politics, it's more a cultural thing similar to the hatred that middle class liberals in general have for FF, based on FF's historical roots and links with the 'peasantry' and the great unwashed. That may seem a quaint concept but it is still a powerful motivation in Irish politics. Shinners are anathema, not because they are raving lefties, which they are clearly not, but because of their fading associations with the IRA and ordinary people having the temerity to shoot drug dealers, beat up strike breakers and generally defy their betters. Poor old Shinners however have missed the plot and are still chasing the mythical middle class vote.

author by Jolly Red Giant - Socialist Party / CWIpublication date Tue Jun 02, 2009 15:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

FF see SF as a threat purely in terms of the impact on the seats of individual TD's and councillors. Losing Ryan's Euro seat is a disaster for FF irrespective of whether it goes to MLM or Joe Higgins. FF have been doing deals with SF for donkeys years - most SF councillors are in pacts with FF on local councils - they know when push comes to shove that SF can be relied upon to do a deal.

There is a reason why Cowen attacked but SF and the Socialist Party in equal measure - they do not see SF as any more of a threat in these elections than the Socialist Party.

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