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Economic Depression and Fianna Fail

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Wednesday March 11, 2009 15:45author by Paddy Hackettauthor email rasherrs at eircom dot net Report this post to the editors

A government party with a strategy

Fianna Fail plans on dumping Brian Cowan as leader
by Paddy Hackett

The following is my opinion:

The Fianna Fail party has a strategy. It is my opinion that Brian Cowan, as Taoiseach, is being increasingly viewed by the Fianna Fail Party as a transitory leader of the Party. The Party will sacrifice him to save its skin. He will be saddled, so it hopes, with all the blame concerning the harsh decisions that are currently being made by the Fianna Fail led government. Consequently, in true Stalinist fashion, he will be eventually sacrificed to "the masses" to save the Party.

When he has done the “dirty work” he will be shouldered with the blame for Fianna Fail’s lack of popularity. He will then be replaced by a new and “shining” leader. Since many of the nasty decisions will have already been taken by Cowan, the new leader will appear as free from such blame --a smiling and kinder figure –a people’s person.

It is hoped in this way that any popular support lost by the party will be recovered as a result of the election of its new leader. The mass media will give her/him the customary honeymoon period. In this way it is hoped that the party will win the next general election. Fianna Fail hopes to be able to claim too that it saved the nation from collapse under very adverse global economic conditions. In this way Cowan, as a figure from Greek tragedy, will have fallen on his own sword. The Party, by distancing itself from Brian Cowan, will have saved the day by exclusively holding Cowan responsible for having imposed harsh policies on the working class.

There is no better party than Fianna Fail to successfully appeal to patriotism as a device for rallying the Irish people behind it.

Paddy Hackett
rasherrs@eircom.net

author by Taggerpublication date Wed Mar 11, 2009 16:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

a smiling and kinder figure –a people’s person.

Like there is or, there are people in the F/Fail party that have these nice personalaties, and qualities.

Dictators are neither kind,or smiling people, and thats what the F/Fail party consists of ,Dictators only need apply.

author by Ed Galliganpublication date Wed Mar 11, 2009 18:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"Dictators are neither kind,or smiling people" - Tagger
Who needs kind or smiling when you've got the gender card to play.

 
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