Country is crying out for a left-turn
OUR next general election looks like being a two-horse race between the Blue Shirts and Shinners – with either one needing some lame donkeys to cobble together a coalition.
Fianna Fail may be their best bet because they’re looking like the biggest jackasses, with their support plummeting to 11% in the latest opinion poll.
They’re now desperately advertising for yet another highpaid spin doctor to get their Covid message out in a coherent manner.
Despite trousering a staggering 130k, all the money in the world won’t save FF from a hammering in the next election if they don’t dump Micheal Martin as leader.
There needs to be an Oireachtas inquiry into how our country continues to suffer the longest lockdown in the world, because it doesn’t add up.
But that idea will be buried if FG and FF end up back in power with each other – or even SF.
Ireland is crying out for a left-wing government, that much is clear.
However, they are not going to be at the races because their combined support doesn’t come close to matching FF or FG.
PRINCIPLES
Mary Lou’s party might claim to be on the left, but at times their ideology is closer to Groucho Marx’s famous saying: “These are my principles and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
We must remember SF’S only mission now is to get into power at all costs in order to help shed their pariah status.
They could end up being just as bad as FF and FG in government, including when it comes to jobs for the boys.
The Left in Ireland reminds me of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian with its many fractious and bickering independent political movements.
There was the People’s Front of Judea, the Judea’s People Front, the Judean Popular Front and The People’s Liberation Front of Judea.
And they spent more time bickering among themselves than squaring up to the Romans.
We’ve got a similar situation here with some socialists seeming to be jumping in and out of bed with different political alliances.
They need to get their House of Cards in order because all these Mickey Mouse parties and alliances only play into the hands of the big guns.
Labour’s Alan “AK47” Kelly would be the strongest candidate for Taoiseach “If Carlsberg Did Irish Government Cabinets”. But the problem with Labour – along with the Greens and the Independent Alliance – is that their record shows they’ve been spineless in government as junior coalition partners.
It’s like Groundhog Day with them getting absolutely annihilated whenever they face an angry electorate after a nightmare stint in government.
And they’re then forced to spend donkey’s years in the political wilderness in an effort to rehabilitate themselves before repeating the vicious cycle.
Meanwhile, FG and FF move onto the next junior partner victim on the conveyor belt of naivety to chew up and spit out.
The Left should be looking at ways to join forces – perhaps solidifying into a new united political entity – to fight the next general election.
Otherwise I’m afraid it’s going to be like John Cleese in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers telling guests there were three different types of duck on the dinner menu – with orange, with cherries, or “surprise”, which turned out to be “duck without oranges or cherries”.
And if you don’t like duck? As Basil Fawlty quipped, “Ah, well, if you don’t like duck, uhhh, you’re rather stuck.”
The problem with Labour is they’re spineless in government
Meanwhile FG and FF move on to the next victim