"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,"
Cheltenham is around again and Fianna Fail are there in numbers. Current Minister, John O’ Donoghue, mixing it up with ex Minister, Charlie McCreevy. The two, mixing with the crowds, the media filling their papers on who the politicos have backed, who they are with and their pictures to accompany them – all for free.
Where are Fine Gail and Labour? These are the parties that believe they are to be the next in Government? Perhaps, if like Prodi, they can get together a coalition of another 7 parties. The public seem to have the perception that the opposition are quiet because they are about to do something big – it never happens. The only time we hear of the opposition in the media is to denounce some new government policy that has just been released. This immature, naïve and ridiculous strategy does not work! The conservative governments of Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard are prime examples of its failure. Perhaps it worked in the 70’s?
If flat racing is the sport of kings then national hunt is where you need the common touch. At Cheltenham the punter, winning or losing, is king – even Dev would have gone to Cheltenham.
People aren’t necessarily FF voters but until there is an alternative they will be. I will be and I don’t want to be.
Enda, Pat, Trevor, etc, etc, what ever you are planning, I hope it’s good!
