Power play: if you want FF, vote PD

IT is now clear that the PD election slogan as demonstrated by Michael McDowell in 2002 — ‘One-party government. No thanks’ — was yet another broken promise.

The Taoiseach said he had a deal with Mary Harney to complete their five-year term and he would expect the same commitment from her successor.

This he duly got from Mr McDowell.

Surely this guarantee from the so-called watchdog party is a blatant reneging on their pact with the electorate to keep Fianna Fáil in line.

The reality now is that a vote for the PDs is a vote to keep Fianna Fáil in power in perpetuity, regardless of what they get up to.

And a vote for FF is a vote for McDowell as Tánaiste.

He once said the PDs had to be radical or redundant.

They have ceased to be radical — it is time they (and their partners in power) were made redundant.

William Maguire

Killarney Road

Macroom

Co Cork