Fine Gael’s two-bit election promises are sadly reminiscent of Fianna Fáil

THE Government has cheapened itself with two-bit election promises from which it will be very difficult to recover, even if the election results are not as disastrous as they have been dreading.

At the conclusion of these European and local campaigns, it won’t be too far- fetched to speculate as to whether or not the Government invited in an old Fianna Fáil hand to advise them on how to conduct themselves in the run-up to today’s polling. The thing is, though, that you’d be insulting the FFer, who would point, doubtless, to Fine Gael and Labour pre-election stunts as amateurish.

We won’t know, until after the weekend, whether or not the electorate have fallen for these old familiar tricks. The pity is that this behaviour was exactly what we had come to expect from Fianna Fáil, but not from this Government, which started off with such credibility and a huge store of political capital.