Is 'weathervane' Fine Gael really able to bring the wind of change under Harris?
The problem with Simon Harris, and Fine Gael more generally, is that they seem to have no conception of the structural inequalities at the heart of Irish society, of the sense of hopelessness experienced by far too many people.
There are two types of political parties. The first type is the ‘principled party’. This party is old-fashioned: it is defined by a distinctive philosophy, which it promotes and defends notwithstanding of electoral success.
People Before Profit–Solidarity and Aontú are two extreme examples: two parties that enter the political arena resigned to being in opposition, picking up small crumbs at each electoral turn, but content to fly the flag of their ideological stance.
