The Solution

[peadar1987]

I'd agree Irish Labour has drifted more towards the centre, but you're way off comparing it with the UK Labour party and it's lurch across the centre ground to out tory the tory's on the right. FF claim to be left of centre (I don't buy it), but in that context much of the electorate must see Labour still as practically communist.

Sorry, I didn't explain myself too well. I meant that Irish Labour are changing their core policies in order to get into power, as Tony Blair did with Labour in Britain. Of course, the shift has been nothing near the magnitude of that experienced by labour, who in the early 90s were still the party of the trade unions and disenfranchised. We've seen where the traditional labour support in the working classes has now gone; towards xenophobic quasi-facists like the BNP and UKIP, who have stepped into the void.

[irishultra]

ireland should have an economically right wing party

[Macy]

ireland should have an economically right wing party

As well as, or instead of FF, FG and the now defunct PD's? Or is my sarcasm radar broken?