Il Labour vuole guidare il movimento di centrosinistra, ma Bacik nota “chiare differenze ideologiche” con SF

You mean Fine Gael lite has a problem with Sinn Fein?


What are the ideological differences, I’m from Tyrone and tbh don’t know anything about Labour in the south

While very easy to read this as short-sighted and from the Fine Gael school of Shinner-bashing, I think it can be read differently.

There were plenty of more-centre-than-left (Alan Kelly) types that were fairly vocal to their opposition to the party’s support of Connolly for president. I think this can be read more as an attempt to keep them on side. It also sends the signal to SF that they’ve already been FG’s whipping boys, they won’t their’s as well.

I can see the calculations for Labour. They’ve been dancing around their identity in a crowded centre-left space for years. They need to look to bring the other centre-left parties into the fold or they will lose out to them in the long run. The centrist wing see SF, Soc-Dems and Greens as rivals moreso than FFG and are wary of working with rivals. Bacik is walking a really tight rope.

Labour are as dead as the Greens and PD’s