Lee’s resignation an act of betrayal

GEORGE Lee’s resignation is an act of disloyalty to the 27,000 people who voted for him and to the hundreds of people who canvassed for him.

More than those, it is an act of gross betrayal to Fine Gael, which invested faith, time, and great energy in him.

Mr Lee’s experience as a television economics reporter and his nine months as a TD do not entitle him to a senior economic role in a party of 31,000 members. Fine Gael secured 605,333 votes in last summer’s local elections.