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10 REASONS FIANNA FAIL SHOULD DISBAND

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Tuesday November 23, 2010 10:37author by Colm o Connor

Politics in this country has been made muddy by decades of civil war divisions, clientilism and corruption. As a result the political discourse required for significant social change is constricted. Now is an opportunity to change the Irish political landscape forever, for all progressive groups to demand that FF disband. Here are my Top 10 reasons. I'm sure there are more.

10. FF TDs unanimously elected Brian Cowen Taoiseach.
9. FFs existence fuels muddy civil war politics which prevents mature political discourse.
8. They can not be trusted with our natural resources e.g. Giving Shell the Corrib Gas Field.
7. They are most associated with gombeenism and clientilism.
6. They have destroyed our neutrality e.g Shannon warport.
5. They are most associated with corruption in various tribunals.
4. Devs constitution made Ireland into a de facto theocracy, from which we are still emerging.
3. They are anti-democratic e.g. Nice and Lisbon re-runs, preventing by elections, gutting the freedom of information laws, equality authority etc.
2. They bankrupted the state.
1. Their aims re. The irish language and 'republicanism' are now redundant.


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