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The gloves are off. In a stinging press release, the PDs attack Labour and Fine Gael on their own ethics. It is certainly worth a read as it contains quiet a few dodgy dealings. They also claim that they never said that they were the government watchdogs. Hmmm, where then did that rumour start? If they were not the watchdogs, what is wrong with one party government and why was McDowell climbing polls in Dublin in 2002? (If anyone can point me in the way of a quote of the PDs saying they would be the watchdogs, please do so.) As for PD ethics, I don’t know how ethical it is to use a government plane to fly to Sligo to open an offie: Harney wings clipped.
A week after the Ógra hacks raised this “point” on Q&A a week ago, the ever entertaining Tim manages to get a press release out of it. And then we get a regugiration of the press release here, without any context, or digging on the issues. Two big claps all round are deserved.
Sarah Carey has a very useful blog on this very issue:
http://www.sarahcarey.ie/2006/10/10/tim-omalley-is-a-dick/
Suerly there is more to blogging the election than posts like this, and the FG are breaking their promises one?
Tim shouldn’t really be getting people too focused on ancient history or people will start to dig around the issue of where the PDs got their start up money from.
True Dan I think this is gloves are off time and all the scandal is about to come pouring out. All this is known. Everyone in parliment and the media knows everyones dodgy dealings.
Like I pointed out but John seemed to entirly miss. Is that the PD’s are not the most ethical party out there themselves.
I got a feeling Dodgey dealings is a exponentail curve of dodgy deals vs seats. The saying power corrupts and absoulte etc etc comes to mind.
Whatever one might think of the way political parties raise funds from corporate and business donors even Mr O’Malley after I’m sure exhaustive research couldn’t produce an example of a serving Minister in any other political party who trousered money for his own personal use other than the present Taoiseach, his mentor the former Taoiseach Mr. Haughey and the well rehearsed list of members from the same “esteemed” party Fianna Fail whom I notice he didn’t use as examples of the lack of ethics in politics, I wonder why!
The curious thing is that it is Tim that is doing this and someone else in the PDs, say why not Fiona? Is it because it didn’t occur to her or that his seat is in more direct danger or that he is more inclined to regurgitate what Ogra FF produce?
The gloves are off?
Diversionary tactics are on, more like.