[quote=āfarmerinthecity, post: 898163, member: 24ā]This is the guy who wanted to run for Fine Gael in the 80s but was knocked back.
This is the guy who champions John Bruton as being a great politician despite him nearly ruining the peace process and being a right wing conservative tosser.
Yet he portrays himself as some sort of champion of the working class. Name one thing he has done to show his socialist credibility?
He also acts the complete cunt on his show at times - there was a debate on religion on one of the Friday night shows and he called some lad a ācondesending twatā for merely expressing a different viewpoint. He also went after than TD who joined FF from Labour recently (this was while he was an independent) and harrassed him to tell him what Labour had done for Ireland recently. Poor old Vincent got too wound up in being a cantankerous old fool to realise that his line of questioning was all wrong as your man had left Labour.[/quote]
What did you ever do for the peace process or for the working class?
I never said I did.[/quote]
Why expect a journalist to be an activist so? Heās allowed take an opinion and challenge people without actually marching on the streets or handing out soup to homeless folk.
[quote=āfarmerinthecity, post: 898483, member: 24ā]Of course he is.
But looking at his past I would doubt that he is genuine.[/quote]
Youāve pulled one thing out in support of this, that he attempted to run as a candidate for Fine Gael about 30 years ago. Which is pretty much a nonsense basis. It was also under Fitzgeralds FG at a time when FG were the most socially liberal party in Ireland.
Not that I would give them much credit, but the only party who delivered any socially liberal initiative in that era, was Fianna FƔil when they decriminalised contraception. Fitzgerald was such a cack handed politician that he set divorce back 10 years.
I am sailing dangerously close to being the defendant of Fine Gael in this discussion and donāt know how I managed to wind up hereā¦ All Iām saying is that Browne potentially running for FG about 30 years ago, at a time they were at the very least more socially liberal, is a load of bollox as support for his contention that Browne has no credibility.
All I am saying is that at that that time FG gave the air of being socially liberal but lacked the political nous to deliver that agenda. At the time the liberal wing of FG was an obvious home for Browne and others but they were to be sorely disappointed.