Comments on: Rabbitte is Labour’s Sticky Wicket http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/28/rabbitte-is-labours-sticky-wicket/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:18:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Ben http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/28/rabbitte-is-labours-sticky-wicket/#comment-13744 Ben Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:27:00 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/28/rabbitte-is-labours-sticky-wicket/#comment-13744 It's true about Labour's current leadership. you couldn't get a more hardworking party in its day than the Stickies. where the hell has that gone? Rabbitte was known by the starlarts of the workers' party as the "student prince", and never really trusted. Too much of a careerist. All well and good, but he's lacking in balls as well. Too busy fondling Enda's. god. I HATE this bloody pact. It’s true about Labour’s current leadership. you couldn’t get a more hardworking party in its day than the Stickies. where the hell has that gone? Rabbitte was known by the starlarts of the workers’ party as the “student prince”, and never really trusted. Too much of a careerist. All well and good, but he’s lacking in balls as well. Too busy fondling Enda’s.
god. I HATE this bloody pact.

]]> By: Seanachie http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/28/rabbitte-is-labours-sticky-wicket/#comment-13680 Seanachie Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:52:31 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/28/rabbitte-is-labours-sticky-wicket/#comment-13680 I agree entirely. Though I would never vote for the Shinners (too many hoodlums in the mix for them to qualify as a genuine leftist party, and I've had this argument with life-long Shinner friends of mine) the pathetic response of the Labour party is best summed up in the last-gasp effort of Ruairi Quinn to garner votes at the last election. He said that a vote for Sinn Féin was equivalent to a vote for Le Pen (running high obviously on the French fascist's then-recent popularity). No, Ruairi, Sinn Féin, however you might characterise them, are not le FN. And neither is that an appropriate explanation for why the Labour party did nothing whatsoever to win working-class votes in that period, and obviously nothing has changed under the Stickies. I agree entirely. Though I would never vote for the Shinners (too many hoodlums in the mix for them to qualify as a genuine leftist party, and I’ve had this argument with life-long Shinner friends of mine) the pathetic response of the Labour party is best summed up in the last-gasp effort of Ruairi Quinn to garner votes at the last election. He said that a vote for Sinn Féin was equivalent to a vote for Le Pen (running high obviously on the French fascist’s then-recent popularity). No, Ruairi, Sinn Féin, however you might characterise them, are not le FN. And neither is that an appropriate explanation for why the Labour party did nothing whatsoever to win working-class votes in that period, and obviously nothing has changed under the Stickies.

]]> By: WorldbyStorm http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/28/rabbitte-is-labours-sticky-wicket/#comment-13679 WorldbyStorm Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:52:00 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/04/28/rabbitte-is-labours-sticky-wicket/#comment-13679 Very succint appraisal and, to my mind entirely correct. SF has learned from those that came, like John the Baptist to it's Jesus, before it. There is no substitute for (as you say) the hard graft of constituency politics. End of story. Labour, sadly, seem to think otherwise, and then they wonder why PSF is the coming thing. The most bizarre thing about it is that those who now are in charge of Labour came from precisely this background but, they appear to have forgotten the lessons they themselves gave. Very succint appraisal and, to my mind entirely correct. SF has learned from those that came, like John the Baptist to it’s Jesus, before it. There is no substitute for (as you say) the hard graft of constituency politics. End of story. Labour, sadly, seem to think otherwise, and then they wonder why PSF is the coming thing.

The most bizarre thing about it is that those who now are in charge of Labour came from precisely this background but, they appear to have forgotten the lessons they themselves gave.

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