To be honest, I never thought that George Lee had made a particularly wise move when he decided to move from being RTE’s economics correspondant to being a FG candidate in Dublin south. I have some sympathy that he found this out the hard way, by trying.
The political arena in Ireland is not always the most edifying. It’s not, in my view, the most effective way of getting things. I know we’re supposed to have consensus politics and all that but it’s never struck me as being consensus, and more about points scoring. I don’t think there’s a place for too many intelligent people who have better things to be doing than political manoeuvring. The net result is we wind up with politicians who are good at posturing and manouevring. They are not necessarily any good at getting stuff done, the sort of stuff that benefits the country.
I’d find that incredibly wearing to be honest. That being said, this is not necessarily news to anyone, so if you’re going to give it a shot, you really shouldn’t be unaware of the pitfalls. I have no idea what Fine Gael intended to do with George Lee when they got him, but you’d have to assume it was more than “nothing”.
I have no idea what George Lee reckoned he was going to do when he got in to the Dail seeing as Fine Gael were somewhat uneffective in opposition (actually I’d suggest they’re plain useless as opposition parties go) and to make any changes you need a modicum of power.
What I do know is that the people of Dublin South have another election coming at them, at some stage. That’s unfair. And that Fine Gael seem to have not really managed this effectively on their side. And that RTE have asked George Lee a few tough questions.
But nothing much is going to change and you’d have to ask yourself, what was it all for. I don’t know. The bad part is we’re reminded once again just how pitiful Fine Gael are in opposition at the moment. Michael Noonan raimeised on yesterday about how all of the opinion polls were within the margin of error for statistical purposes. Funny how good they are on polls but how less good on basic economics, re, house prices and their impact on the economy in the past.
Fianna Fail are carefully going about losing elections hand over fist. Fine Gael seem hell bent on enabling them to win even when Fianna Fail are trying their damndest to lose. No one seems to want to run this country.
God knows why.
With the departure of George Lee, I believe we are witnessing the complete demise of the now exposed Enda Kenny and the out of touch Fine Gael with the realities of the current economic situation!
Enda Kenny, having scored a resounding national coupé by getting the country’s top economic commentator to come on side, has now with the departure of Grorge Lee completely destroyed any hope of becoming Taoiseach
There is no use in telling the public that one has to under-go training in period when one enters the Dail
Remember the first people that entered the Dail did not have to undergo an apprenticeship.
This is just hor****
All this now does, is tell the general public that Fine Gael is just as mush a hostage to its accumulated
Ancient practices that at sometime in the long distant past might have been useful.
This episode exposes again my contention that the practices in the Dail that all political parties conform to is way outdated and has no place in modern Ireland
Again I state that I believe that the system is corrupt and dysfunctional
This lame attempt to now clam that all new TD’s included George Lee must first have a type of apprenticeship before they can contribute is just farcical
I would not vote for somebody that I thought was just going to be an apprentice
This shows the public that true nature of Fine Gael, it confirms that even in opposition they seem to have a lot of Prema – Donnas
They are trying to make the public conform to their way of doing business
We won’t have it, and in the next polls you will see how pissed off we really are!
I call on George Lee now to form his own political party and I can promise him at least 30 of my friends to join him immediately
If Fine Gail wants to help form the next government they will have to shift Enda Kenny
His judgement is now on the Floor!
Machholz