Up until Monday, I’d have said Nationalists had a pretty strong argument to make on that front.
Just because something can be defended, that does not make it a good or a sharp political idea
This policy should have never been adopted, and it should be abandoned.
Having financial interests – once they are disclosed – is not corruption. But it is also not irrelevant.
This particular issue is not going away.
It’s an interesting conundrum, and one wonders whether the Soc Dems have really thought it through.
They genuinely believe your mind works in a way where you hate migrants, right up to the moment you see one pick up a broom.
If this news strikes you as odd, then just imagine how it might be received in Áras an Uachtaráin.
The objective here is plain: It is to reinforce liberal sensibilities, and lock those who speak a little too plainly out of civilised society.
The natural choice.
Cromwell, were he alive, might have different views today. But he’d thrive all the same.
It all comes back, I think, to the biggest problem with this Government: They don’t actually know who it is that they are for.