Bertie and McDowell’s little christmas

Bertie and McDowell must be thinking they are getting a late Christmas this year. First they had Deasy come out and challenge Enda. Then English was misconstrued by the Indo, forcing some backtracking (and more still). And now they have pissed off the Greens.

From the Irish Times:

In an interview in today’s Irish Times, Mr Kenny said that his party would approach the Green Party to join a rainbow alliance if Fine Gael and Labour had 79 or 80 seats and required a small number of extra votes to form a government.

However, the Green Party’s education spokesperson Paul Gogarty said this morning that Fine Gael was continuing to play “pretend opposition” and needed to start focusing on policies if it was really serious about negotiating for Government after the election. Green Party leader Trevor Sargent was also quick to dismiss talk of any pre-election pact.

Mr Gogarty said: “I find his attitude more than a little patronising. His statement is aimed at boosting his party’s flagging performance by painting us as the desperate junior partner lucky to be in Government with an all-conquering Fine Gael.”

“He should go back to his spin doctors and number crunchers for a second opinion. It is plain as day that he will never be Taoiseach without Green support.”

I bet Enda is wishing this week would just end.

Edit: FG just need to shut up on this story. They are the ones that keep bringing it up; FF and PD do not need to do anything with this story at all. FG TD Michael Ring has called it sabotage. So in honour of that…