Bertie steps into Maggie’s slogan shoes
Far from being driven by the words of Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone or the poetry of Pádraig Pearse, the self-declared Republican Party is inspired by the words of the decidedly anti-republican Margaret Thatcher.
Fianna Fáil’s slogan for this summer’s General Election is The Next Steps Forward — echoing Thatcher’s bombastic speech to The College of Europe in Belgium in 1988.