The following is taken from my notebook. It was written on the 3rd January this year, as I tried to make a list of problems to solve or salve. I haven’t changed any of it in the light of hindsight. It will be my last post on politics for a month. <\/p>\n
1) The main opposition party is further to the right than FF. Its only possible partners are to FF’s left. <\/p>\n
2) FG is stupid. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.<\/p>\n
3) FF is a permanent government. The rich and powerful have come to accommodations with it. Therefore they will all resist change. <\/p>\n
4) Bertie is indestructible. Any attack on him is counterproductive.<\/p>\n
5) The opposition are used to losing. <\/p>\n
6) Many voters find party politics boring and irrelevant. The incumbents have the most to lose and therefore the greatest incentive to motivate their support. <\/p>\n
7) The parties react to the media as though they were actually voicing common concerns, rather than their own. -Worries over policy documents, when manifestos are irrelevant.-<\/p>\n
8 ) Opposition continue, in the main, to do the same thing and expect different results- one of the definitions of madness. <\/p>\n
9) Desperate lack of talent. <\/p>\n
10) Control Freakery in Labour HQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following is taken from my notebook. It was written on the 3rd January this year, as I tried to make a list of problems to solve or salve. I haven’t changed any of it in the light of hindsight. It will be my last post on politics for a month. 1) The main opposition party is further to the right than FF. Its only possible partners are to FF’s left. 2) FG is stupid. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. 3) FF is a permanent government. The rich and powerful have come to accommodations with it. Therefore they will all resist change. 4) Bertie is indestructible. Any attack on him is counterproductive. 5) The opposition are used to losing. 6) Many voters find party politics boring and irrelevant. The incumbents have the most to lose and therefore the greatest incentive to motivate their support. 7) The parties react to the media as though they were actually voicing common concerns, rather than their own. -Worries over policy documents, when manifestos are irrelevant.- 8 ) Opposition continue, in the main, to do the same thing and expect different results- one of the definitions of madness. 9) Desperate lack of talent. 10) Control Freakery in Labour HQ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[428,260,261,672,21,194],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-politics","tag-bertieahern","tag-fiannafail","tag-finegael","tag-irish-politics","tag-labour","tag-oreilly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}