So independent Teachta Dála Colm Keaveney, a former member of the nominally left-wing and socialist Labour Party, is to join Fianna Fáil, a grouping now firmly on the liberal democrat centre-right of Irish politics. Ah, the ever flexible principles and beliefs of Ireland’s political elites. Yesterday a class-warrior, today a free marketeer. And where next for the travelling politico? Well that depends on the opinion polls, doesn’t it.
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
In fairness, since when did being in the labour party make one a class warrior, unless it means being a warrior on behalf of the elite classes.
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These days that is quite true but there were many in the Labour Party who thought differently in times past. That said the sight of Éamon Gilmore holding a police truncheon from the 1913 Lockout at the Labour conference was enough to make one gag. As if any ideology linked the modern Labour Party to its street-battling antecedents.
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there’s precedence there, sionnach – Michael O’Leary (1936-2006) – http://url.ie/khv5 – after all, fianna fáil and fine gael are cut from the same cloth — — did you notice that in the most recent debates for a “third way” that republicanism isn’t even considered? –
Tonight with Vincent Browne
http://www.tv3.ie/3player/show/41/72471/1/Tonight-with-Vincent-Browne
Broadcast: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 23:00
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