Politics 101: If you want people to abandon one idea, you need to give them a better set of ideas.
In a referendum campaign, the side that tells the better story usually wins.
The significance of 2023 is that it is the year when “far right” stopped being a label people feared, and began to become a standing joke.
Handing out “end of year awards” to politicians is a venerable and stupid Irish media tradition
But perhaps your correspondent is simply getting cynical in his advancing years. Time will tell.
We will find out soon enough how well he has thought his policies through. And we should learn from both his successes, and his errors.
We don’t treat our politicians like that here, for better, or for worse.
Don’t worry about what the polls say. The hostility is at an unprecedented level”, the activist involved in selections said.
It’s very likely that the kind of young voter who’s minded to vote McGregor would see the revulsion displayed towards him by the establishment as a net-positive, rather than a net-negative.
This new venture should be welcomed onto the scene. But those of us who do wish it well should also temper our expectations.
It’s a strange country, where people hold Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to a higher standard of competence than they hold people who receive millions of euros in taxpayer funding.
But who is truly honest and humble enough to serve the people of Ireland?