Reading Labour’s election manifesto is akin to reading a dispatch from a frontier province that hasn’t yet received word that fashions in Rome have changed. Whereas People Before Profit’s was – if I can say so without being impolite – openly mad, suggesting food price caps and raising corporation tax to 20% as it did, Labour’s proposes more agreeable-sounding economic measures for the most part, tethered to social stances that have quickly fallen out of favour elsewhere and are, hopefully, in the process of doing so here.
To illustrate that point, some highlights include the creation of a State Construction Company to handle the housing crisis Ireland has been mired in for some time now using the Apple windfall, as well as commitments to hate speech and assisted suicide legislation. Meanwhile, there’s no acknowledgement that immigration has become a flash point in Irish society, but rather it’s discussed as something that remains economically necessary and so is to be welcomed.
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