anf forget completly about the court cases involving the anti iw crowd
anf forget completly about the court cases involving the anti iw crowd
Finlay is a pain in the ass from a comfortable background and is one of our highly paid Charity CEOs ,we need to listen and get out on the streets and meet people ,a huge mountain to climb but it can be done.
Drop the mass immigration and so called multi cultural policys(and I know all the other parties promote these policies as well ,especially SinnFein) and that's just for starters.
What is Labour's long term prospects?
An old parliamentary party (where Sherlock and Kelly are the exceptions). But all of them have been staunch supporters of Enda Kenny (and will struggle to their voices)
Soc Dems stealing their credibility while SF/FF take their votes
Union money under threat
Sold HQ
They are pitied and despised.
They are closer to John Redmond than James Connolly.
They weren't getting huge sums of money from the unions - I believe they got around 100K in total for the 2011 GE.
Fact is that the LP and the unions appear to have a close link when it suits them. Both have one thing in common - they have sold their members down the drain regardless of what sector they work in.
The LP supported the legislation which they and FG introduced to cut funds from the unions.
They are a right wing party masquerading as left wing.
Labour has always bounced back while in opposition, however this time around they will have to get through SF and a raft of left leaning and outright left Independents.
The two and a half party system is dead, and Labour are screwed.
All of the above apart from Allan Kelly, who is just an individual and doesn't really count for very much in the grand scheme of things, but always siding with FG, Ireland's most right wing party for which there was never any logical reasoning, was and always has been their greatest political mistake and at the same time the clearest statement of their lack of political principle.
They had the same problem as FG had in 2002 and FF in 2011, when the tide went out, a lot of their prominent TDs decided to retire. Gilmore retiring cost them a seat in Dun Laoghaire and most likely, Rabitte would have been elected in SW. They were part of an unpopular govt and got no thanks for doing what they said they would do - protecting the ps and welfare dependents from FGs preference for more spending cuts. They need to do what they have done in the past, revive constituency organisations and get new candidates in place for the next local elections.