FG tries to revive old auction politics

JUST when you thought auction politics was going, going, gone — Fine Gael slams down the gavel and tries to bring the dark art back from the dead.

Clearly, there can be no return to the credit-fuelled orgy of the 2007 campaign, but Michael Noonan has still tried to sprinkle a little sugar for voters in his party’s begging bowl.

Property tax? Dirty socialist/FF nonsense, says Mr Noonan. So what if just about every other Western country has one, down with that sort of thing here — especially if it puts clear blue water between FG and the others and marks out Mr Noonan as the buddy of the property-crushed majority.