“Equality” vs. “Equity”.
There is protest, there is symbolism, and then there is childish student union politics without thought to diplomacy. Not the for the first time, from Holly Cairns, this only fits one of those categories.
A year ago, there was an opportunity to offer the electorate something really different. Instead, the choice has been made to offer the electorate some empty rhetoric.
Catherine Murphy, the former co-leader of the Social Democrats, previously said that Irish people had “white privilege,” even during periods of historical oppression. Ben Scallan asked the current leader, Holly Cairns, if this is still the party’s position.
Claim by Holly Cairns
The Soc Dems have every chance of watching Labour sink, and picking up the survivors. In the meantime, they have no reason to lash themselves to a sinking ship.
“It nearly impossible for us to be enthusiastic about this referendum.”
PIs
Far be it from me to second-guess Colette Browne, the communications director for the Social Democrats, but in her position I am not sure that I would have agreed, during a cost of living crisis, to have my party leader photographed for the Sunday Independent wearing made-to-order clothes with a labelled value of over €1000. […]
Aside from offering generational change on the left, Cairns offers something else that nobody else can: Purity.
It’s an interesting conundrum, and one wonders whether the Soc Dems have really thought it through.
The natural choice.