This time, there’s nobody else to blame if it all goes sideways.
This being a democracy, we get what we vote for. In this case, it appears that the public voted for a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael scramble for Ministries and Mercs.
The one decision we can say with certainty that voters took was to sack the bloody Greens.
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Election 2024
Election 2024
‘Duplicates’ and names of people who have died on register
Forthright
Fractured
“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.
High-profile TDs and Ministers lose jobs