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VARIATION ON A THEME
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I read an article in a magazine recently, commenting on political apathy.
It had resonances for the situation here as we approach Election 2007.
I will reproduce it here, with adjustments to suit the local scene.
“In politics, as in retailing, brand loyalty is a wonderful thing. However badly a company was managed, however awful its stock, a hard core of emotionally attached customers stayed with the brand. Similarly, there are hard-core Fianna Fail tribal voters who will support their party come what may. despite, rather than because of, their leader’s policies.
Those hard-core voters constitute the bedrock vote.
Similarly, the party has potential further support but, to judge by the 2002 election and the recent local elections, the party is not attracting much of it.
These are thinking voters.
The Fianna Fail sleaze, the combination of ministerial avarice and incompetence, rising crime, falling standards in schools and crises in the Health Service, remote from the Prime Minister’s fantasy world (viz. de Bertie Bowl), are keeping potential Fianna Fail at home, frustrated and disillusioned.”
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