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He and Simon Coveney are now on equal odds for leadership. He was short odds on. It looked like it would happen in February, then March, now the 29th April (which year?).
The kennyite clingons will back Coveney.
Leo V is 38, but it feels like he's been around for a long long time. Obama and Cameron were around for less time in Parliament than he, before they made their move.
His "leader"has been around since 1974 and the finance minister is old,sick and very stuck in his ways. A safe pair of hands who was useful in a crisis but should never have been reappointed. His Tanaiste is not Alan Shatter and that is her strongest point. Other ministers include Paul Kehoe, Charlie Flanagan, Mary Mitchel O'Connor - who wouldn't exactly shine in the real world.
That's a lot of potential vacancies - and there are a lot of hungry young FG TDs, looking to a real leader.
This government is a sham of a holding exercise. FF leading opposition while calling the shots. Shane Ross is lost in cabinet collective responsibility. Zappone is a fig leaf. Naughton is pure rural FG - which is good or bad depending on your views.
Leo V had three ministries and let's face it, he hasn't exactly shone. He's more likely to be remembered for speaking off message and coming out than any ministerial achievement - is that what he wants as a legacy? The gaffe-prone gay?
He's proper principled right wing, which makes him the one eyed king in the land of the blind pragmatists.
He could have changed Ireland by encouraging entrepreneurs, dismantling the corporate cronyism and cutting off the NGO/Montrose merry-go-rounders. He could bring the emigrants home to a place where they won't be taxed into oblivion and actually get something in return for the bounty coerced from us. Their broader experience will shape Ireland into a pluralist dynamic meritocracy. Moderate unionists could be green with envy looking south not merely on its wealth but the health of our society. A nation taking its place amongst the nation's of the world.
Not a sleeveen tax haven. Not a land of pixies, peasants and priests. Not the Leitrim of Europe.
Not Enda's Ireland.
It now seems likely we'll get Simon Coveney, a decent man, a family man - someone who has rocked a cradle, won't rock the boat.
The kennyite clingons will back Coveney.
Leo V is 38, but it feels like he's been around for a long long time. Obama and Cameron were around for less time in Parliament than he, before they made their move.
His "leader"has been around since 1974 and the finance minister is old,sick and very stuck in his ways. A safe pair of hands who was useful in a crisis but should never have been reappointed. His Tanaiste is not Alan Shatter and that is her strongest point. Other ministers include Paul Kehoe, Charlie Flanagan, Mary Mitchel O'Connor - who wouldn't exactly shine in the real world.
That's a lot of potential vacancies - and there are a lot of hungry young FG TDs, looking to a real leader.
This government is a sham of a holding exercise. FF leading opposition while calling the shots. Shane Ross is lost in cabinet collective responsibility. Zappone is a fig leaf. Naughton is pure rural FG - which is good or bad depending on your views.
Leo V had three ministries and let's face it, he hasn't exactly shone. He's more likely to be remembered for speaking off message and coming out than any ministerial achievement - is that what he wants as a legacy? The gaffe-prone gay?
He's proper principled right wing, which makes him the one eyed king in the land of the blind pragmatists.
He could have changed Ireland by encouraging entrepreneurs, dismantling the corporate cronyism and cutting off the NGO/Montrose merry-go-rounders. He could bring the emigrants home to a place where they won't be taxed into oblivion and actually get something in return for the bounty coerced from us. Their broader experience will shape Ireland into a pluralist dynamic meritocracy. Moderate unionists could be green with envy looking south not merely on its wealth but the health of our society. A nation taking its place amongst the nation's of the world.
Not a sleeveen tax haven. Not a land of pixies, peasants and priests. Not the Leitrim of Europe.
Not Enda's Ireland.
It now seems likely we'll get Simon Coveney, a decent man, a family man - someone who has rocked a cradle, won't rock the boat.
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