Tuesday May 8th

Well well well. Bertie and McDowell are best friends again. Harney has confidence in the Taoiseach.

I thonk we'll find in due course, sometime next week, perhaps, that the Taoiseach will have "legal advice" that he shouldn't make a statment but should wait for the tribunal. Mcdowell will "respect" this.

After the last weekends PD hissyfit a damage limitation exercise is underway. I don't think FF have been damaged, but the PDs certainly have - a major error of judgement was made and the electorate will punish them for it.

I told Enda to stay out of it (not that anyone reads this blog) but he wouldn't and he went and put his foot in it. A minor error of judgement, that does, however, show that Enda is not the asset FG like to think he is. He is coming across as a blueshirt gobshite and if he wants the job he should shut up, smile a lot and try to look presidential.

Pat Rabbitte so far is playing his cards well, as is the joint green leadership of Sargent and Gormley.

Meanwhile the Shinners have taken over the North in an "Alliance for Bigotry" with Ian Paisley.

With the shinners ditching their faux leftist economic policies for the current rightist reactionary orthodoxy, nothing now bars them from entering an alliance with FF down south.


If numbers add up this is surely more likely than an FF Labour alliance. I'm sure SF won't be too worried about Berties personal finances given their own history of 2fundraising" etc. Bertie can justify such a move by simply saying that SF have got rid of their more offensive (to Bertie) policies.

Next poll should show a bounce for Bertie, but still all to play for.