Bruton: FG better off losing in 2007

FINE GAEL deputy leader Richard Bruton has admitted publicly what many in his party have been reluctant to – that they were better off losing the 2007 general election.

“Most people would say that maybe our guardian angel was sitting there on our shoulders guiding us,” Mr Bruton said in reference to 2007, pointing out that, if it had won power, Fine Gael would have been blamed for the subsequent economic collapse.

“We would have been blamed for all of this,” he said. “You could imagine the sort of rhetoric that would have been coming from the Fianna Fáil benches.”