But there’s a difference between hoping for an event occurring, which is reasonable, and openly being seen to cheer for that event occurring, which can be foolish.
Threat of low-priced South American beef and dairy
‘I have text messages’
“Dangerous, and it is really toxic politics.”
Asked to choose between alienating Irish Times reporters and Labour Party TDs on one hand, and their own voters and activists on the other, Independent Ireland chose to ditch its own national chairwoman.
The whole point of forming the party was to build an organisation that could add more TDs and Senators in order to work towards entering Government. To do that, the party had to acquire a committed activist base. That is where Elaine Mullally came in.
At a stroke, and for no good reason, the party has just made itself untrustworthy to many of those who voted for it. It is a calamitous error of political judgement.
I fear, looking at the mess in this one EU constituency, that a hard lesson is going to be learned by many people on June 7th.