Phil Hogan - We'll miss him now he's gone

Current Affairs
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Hasn’t he resigned as Captain of the Oireachtas Golf Team? The man has suffered enough.

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Pat Leahy putting forward some names

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This is going to be like the red wedding in game of thrones

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You seem to be fierce worried about this. Is there anything you’d like to tell us?

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Very noble

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Fuck. That is vicious.

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You have your own issues to be concerned with.

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Paddy seems to think it’s just another matter selecting another mick for the job. That ship has sailed.

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Would Big Phil have been claiming mileage over the last few weeks?

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It’s kilometreage in Europe.

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Oooft
Translation ‘‘For Phillus Dickus is an honorable man’’
A low blow there from Leo in fairness, somewhat reminiscint of his Athena jab to Bojo that time

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@locke the imperialist at it again

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The express showing what the mainland thinks of Paddy and the EU

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Could we get fucked out of the EU altogether now that Phil isn’t there negotiating for us? I know we were putting the boot into him but I didn’t think he’d actually resign.

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Yeah what a pussy, taken down by Matt cooper, dear lord

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Apparently it was his ‘own’ decision. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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A load of noise over nothing in reality. He won’t mind too much I’d say.

Ming Flanagan should go next.

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If Coveney has any sense he won’t go near it. He’s in pole position at the moment to be next leader of Fine Gael. That’s more than likely gone for good, if he goes to Brussels. The only Commissioner who ever came back to domestic politics was Michael O’Kennedy.

Leo might not be quite as secure as a lot of people seem to think he is. Leo presided over a disastrous election for Fine Gael, which got buried pretty quickly by Covid. Lowest percentage share of the vote since 1948, worse even than Noonan in 2002. Down to 35 seats from the 76 that Big Phil delivered as Director of Elections in 2011.

Leo shafting Big Phil is likely to play out very badly with the FG rank and file, particularly rurally. It’s seen as a Dublin centric party now amongst members with Leo a leader put in place against the wishes of the rank and file by a voting system gerrymandered in favour of the parliamentary party.

O’Kennedy should be a salutary tale for Coveney. O’Kennedy had served as Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs before he went to Brussels and was widely tipped as the man who would ultimately succeed Haughey. When he came back from Brussels just over a year later after nearly dying of boredom as Commissioner for Administration, Personnel and Statistics, Minister for Agriculture and Labour was as good as it got.

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