Problem ultimately wasn’t about low-stakes speaking time or terrible political nous: it was over a proposal that utterly failed to pass the bulls**t test
The problem ultimately wasn’t about low-stakes speaking time or terrible political nous: it was over a proposal that utterly failed to pass the bulls**t test
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A bunch of politicians had already pulled off one stroke in government formation behind closed doors and clearly no longer cared if anyone noticed the second. “I’m a constituency TD that is using the position that we’re supporting the Government to help put us in a position where we’ll be in a stronger position to further projects in Kerry,” he told the Sunday Independent. But he wasn’t just an independent constituency TD when he said that: he was the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine., Healy-Rae’s new boss at Agriculture House, must be thrilled.
All eight signed up to the programme like a normal political party entering coalition and pledged to support the Government just like a normal political party. There were even fears that Murphy’s loyalty to her non-party party might derail her constitutionally required impartiality as Ceann Comhairle.
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