Labour party performing political somersaults

ARE we now witnessing another somersault of the merger of Democratic Left and the Labour party?

Who speaks for Labour on foreign policy — Pat Rabbitte or Michael D Higgins? Will Michael D Higgins accept the consequences of having his leader enunciate one policy today while he, as spokesman, articulates a different view tomorrow?

While a member of Sinn Féin the Workers Party and Democratic Left, Pat Rabbitte virtually made it a virtue to bend to every prevailing wind, to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. To pretend that such contradictory behaviour is possible in a larger party beggars belief.

Michael J Stokes

2 Willington Green

Templeogue

Dublin 6W