PD man’s challenge to the pundits

YOUR political correspondent Shaun Connolly suggests (July 14) that the PDs tried to “bring Thatcherism with a human face to Ireland”.

As a member of the party who joined at the Metropole Hotel in Cork in 1986, I am sick to death of this verbal diarrhoea.

I did not join a Thatcherite party ... I did not go to regular meetings to discuss Thatcherite policies ... I did not go out and canvass for so-called right-wing capitalists. I joined the PDs to try influence policy so as to ensure a better life for all our citizens.