“Getting the working class out to vote” has basically been the pipe dream of every revolutionary left wing movement in the west for decades now.
There is no substitute, in the Irish system, for going out and building up a client base. Helen McEntee has done it, and most of her harshest critics – Willie O’Dea aside – have not.
The long term trajectory of Irish politics is broadly unchanged. B
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Also: Election observations and predictions, some of the usual TDS, and we’ll see you all tomorrow.
Voting takes place this Friday, 29th November
Yes, you’ve one more day of this to go. And you deserve it.
If you can’t remove him from office, is he a politician, or a monarch?
More of this? For five more years? With a new energy? No wonder voters are saying no thanks.
This is Trumpism at its worst: Ill-thought out, ill-targeted, and likely to backfire.
The party has run a very good campaign. But is over-ambition creeping in?
The party, frankly, entered this election taking the voters and the result for granted. They’ll deny it – but they did.
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