Is that your reading?
----- Original Message ---- From: Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 8:55:34 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] First results announced in Irish general election
On 26 February 2011 17:53, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [WS:] So it looks like the voters' response to the financial meltdown
> is to put a neo-liberal socially conservative party in power.
> Depressing.
You're telling me.
On the plus side, it is the left's strongest-ever showing by far, and at least one constituency (these are multi-seaters) has gone entirely left. But it's not good enough to make a real change. Unfortunately when Labour began polling very strongly last year, instead of trying to build a broad left alliance with smaller parties and left independents it hitched its wagon to a right-wing party and spent most of its election campaign attacking the left. It ended up polling just strongly enough to (probably) put itself into government as a junior coalition partner, when six months ago it had a fair chance of being the senior partner.
On another plus side, this guy got in, which should at least provide some entertainment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_%27Ming%27_Flanagan ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk