Fine Gael and Labour are at loggerheads over a new election strategy for the next general election which is designed to capitalise on the plumetting popularity of the Government and Fianna Fail in particular.
Apparently strategists from both parties are each claiming ownership of a plan to campaign on a Not Fianna Fail platform. They believe that anti-Fianna Fail sentiment is so strong that sending out any other message is just confusing the issue. “People don’t need to know what we stand for, they don’t need to know who we are, they just need to know that we are not Fianna Fail,” a Fine Gael spokesman said.
Party strategists hit on the idea when they realised Fianna Fail workers campaigning in the Euro and Local Elections were hiding the party’s miniscule logo underneath the posters of rival election candidates. “They are trying to fool the public,” the Fine Gael spokesman said. “They are not Not Fianna Fail, they are Fianna Fail. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”
The rift with Labour emerged when it was discovered they were opting for the same strategy. “This is ridiculous,” the Fine Gael spokesman said. “No one is more Not Fianna Fail than us.”
“Nonsense,” said his Labour counterpart, “They are Fianna Fail light. We are the Real Not Fianna Fail.”
Glad to see that our politicians are keen to develop new trasparencies in electoral manifesto, or is it manifestations…….. I think Enda’s suit is really cool…. Did he get it in Ballinrobe?