People waking up to the legacy of liberalism

SO now we know. Bertie has issued his edict. There is no more room at the inn for party dissenters and true democracy within Fianna Fáil appears to have suffered a fatal blow.

TDs must toe the party line. They must obey or pay. Big daddy is watching.

But what is this 'party line'? I lay a euro to a cent that very few of our elected representatives know the full extent of it and even fewer have given any thought to the implications for Irish society at large if it is implemented in full or in part.