Labour’s sinister proposal

The recent proposals from within the Labour that “no Catholics need apply” represent a sinister development in Irish politics.

It seems that the old canard about the dangers of reds under the bed (and worse still in it) may have contained a degree of veracity after all. The proposal can only be likened to a kind of left-wing McCarthyism. Apart from the obvious sinister nature of the proposal itself, there are a number of associated features which are equally chilling.

Firstly, is the fact that the national broadcaster has totally failed to turn it’s well funded attention to examining the story. Given the fact that the stations news/current affairs department has an unenviable reputation of association with a totalitarian Marxist political party, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. In addition, it’s perhaps not coincidental that the Labour party is now led by an individual who in a previous incarnation was not exactly adverse to cosying up to those in the late, unlamented Soviet Union. It seems that old ideological habits die hard. In this context it is apparent that the most urgent need for screening of dubious disloyal influences in the State, is among the Labour Party and it’s apparatchiks.