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How FG might go about smothering FF

Posted on October 24, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia Today’s poll in the Sunday Business post from REDC shows FF at 18% with FG at 31%, Lab at 27%,Sf at 9%, Greens at 4% with Independents 10%. Such a result if replicated in a general election … Continue reading →

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The 81% election

Posted on October 4, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia It is entirely possible that all three major parties in Ireland could each poll around 27% a piece come the next general election. This would be due to the incumbency and name recognition factor benefiting FF and … Continue reading →

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FF’s strategy for salvation

Posted on September 20, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia For a good while now, I’ve thought that FF would use the next budget as a platform for the election. They would fight the election campaign on the basis of the detail of the budget and force … Continue reading →

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Of gender, jobs and quotas

Posted on July 5, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia Over on political reform one of the most commented pieces in recent times concerns the description of the new Fine Gael front bench as ‘Male, stale and pale’. This description is in itself ironic given the complete … Continue reading →

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What the contest in Fine Gael is about

Posted on June 17, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia The contest in FG is not urban or rural as Elaine Byrne suggested but between the politics of “what” and “how” as compared with the politics of “who, and where and when”. There is a not inconsiderable number … Continue reading →

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What chances for a smooth change at the top of FG?

Posted on June 14, 2010 by dsullivan

I suspect that it is obvious at this point that the possibility of a change at the top of FG has increased in the last 48 hours and the likelihood of this change over being a smooth and relatively bloodless … Continue reading →

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The end of Enda

Posted on June 11, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia He has been an excellent leader of the party and has the qualities to make a great Taoiseach but the electorate have fixed in their minds a view of him that is inaccurate, not based on his performance and … Continue reading →

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What if there was an election and nobody won?

Posted on May 7, 2010 by dsullivan

That is pretty much what they’ve had in the UK. Labour lost massive numbers of seats, the Tories appear to be solidly short of a majority and the LibDems simply failed to convert support in votes. It is possible, even … Continue reading →

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The Tories baseless fear of PR

Posted on May 5, 2010 by dsullivan

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Jason notes the fear factor being raised by the Daily Mail against PR. One does have to wonder if the poor dears writing for the Daily Mail in the UK know how PR works. … Continue reading →

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William Hague as PM

Posted on April 28, 2010 by dsullivan

Based on the noises from Clegg over last weekend, it sounds like he might not wish his party to serve with either Cameron or Brown as PM. So borrowing from the northern Ireland model where party leaders don’t necessarily go … Continue reading →

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