It was reported in today’s Irish Independent that Fine Gael & Labour have caved in to pressure from Government Ministers and now intend to publish “up to 10 joint policy” documents, the first of which is expected in the New Year.
I notice no firm dates were given nonetheless; it will be interesting to see what they can cobble together…
Duh - they have specifically said all along that the Government will not dictate their agenda - "caved in" indeed
It's really preposterous that the opposition should be requested to tell us what they're about.
By the way, I might have missed it but have FG and Labour sorted their differences on taxation? I seem to remember Pat Rabbitte refusing to rule out the possibility that his party would seek to raise capital gains tax.
MJ Coughlan,
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They've been saying that they'd do that in 2006 since last May. Not really news to anyone who's been paying attention (which doesn't include the Indo).
Pressure from Government Ministers?!Originally Posted by Maximus
TKWhiskers:- the response of FF to the FG/Labour alliance has been absolutely pathetic, and you know it. It consisted of two press releases in Cavan; a press release in Killarney; a bunch of lies and downright stupidity from Ahern and Cowen in Cavan (when they compared the economy of Sudan to the economy under the Rainbow
If this is what you call pressure - then God love you. This "pressure" was greeted with glee in FG circles, because it highlighted the fact that panic-stations have been reached among FF strategists, and it kept the FG agenda and the FG/Labour alliance in the news for a long time.
By the way TK: Have you managed to find any joint policy papers, or a fully costed joint programme, that FF and the PDs published before the 1997 and 2002 General Elections? You know, the same thing you keep asking us for??
Didn't think so
"The IRA Army Council have a history of telling the truth. If they say they didn't do it, then I believe them" - Bertie Ahern, speaking after the murder of Det. Garda Jerry McCabe
Rainbow in tatters.
No matter what they produce it will pale in comparason to the world class health service, inegrated dublin rail network, infarstrucure built, lack of waiting lists, 2000 extra gardi, regional drug task forces etc...that FF policy has created.
I'm looking forward to these "policy" documents so much. They're either going to be so vague that they won't tell the public anything or if they are in anyway specific it will cause a fall out. From my own conversations with members of both Labour and FG I don't know how they are going to cooperate in the GE.
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen” - Albert Einstein
They've been in govt together plenty of times before I think they will manage.
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