Labour trips up on pre-election promises as Shortall is ditched

WHEN the Labour party crashes and burns in the next general election political commentators will be able to trace the definitive start of its implosion in government to its shameless shafting of Roísín Shortall.

The theme of the last general election was political reform — largely because the country was too broke for the usual auction politics that routinely accompanied every previous election cycle in this country.

The cute hoor clientelism, championed so successfully for so long by Fianna Fáil, and which played a large part in bankrupting the country, was lambasted and derided by those in Fine Gael and Labour.