FG is not and never has been remotely social democratic (social liberalism != social democracy).
Paddy Matthews
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Weary rural cynic preparing a bolthole just in case. До біса Трампа.
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Irish "Labour" could at least plead in mitigation that they were only one-third of a government dominated by Osborne-style right-wingers rather than having a three-figure overall majority on their own. (Can't believe I'm making excuses for the Sticks.)
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Surely there's an opening for a veteran local independent socialist?
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The cream always rises to the top.
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Probably still stands a better chance of winning a by-election in Dublin Central than FG.
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Four. There was a fifth (Meath) but it got absorbed into Leinster.
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...only for their one MEP at the time to decide that he wanted to be a big fish in ECR rather than a small one in ELDR. Biffo Cowen had less patience than Ahern and ordered the MEP to reaffiliate only for him to refuse (and then be absent for a full 5-year term until his retirement in 2019).
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They went in with the Gaullists (and the SNP) originally in the 1970s and ended up staying in that group through inertia as it mutated from centre to further right (being the predecessor to ECR) until the party leadership under Bertie decided that enough was enough and tried to switch to ELDR...
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Not especially "Christian Democratic" - "conservative-liberal" or "Nordic conservative" might be a better description. FF is a better analogue to the Canadian Liberals or to a lot of EPP parties in terms of its traditional space in the political ecosystem.
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Sounds very much like a certain type of Irish "Labour"/Green swing voter.
