Alan Kinsella, of Irish Election Literature, tweetz:
From the 1950’s Fine Gael policy on work, workers rights, Unions etc…
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Seems a lot like Cosgrave chasing Mongrel Fox’es.
This really saddens me. Few of us wouldn’t sign up to such a manifesto. How did such aspiration for the common wield become so profoundly corrupted. Hold this up against the current “What’s in it for meeeee” crew, and marvel. It appears that Labour are not the only party to lose its way, and dishonour those who went before. Heartsick, I am.
I would have thought this was from earlier than the 1950s. Fine Gael’s turn towards corporatism – and this is what the rhetoric about workers and employers is – was inspired by Mussolini and I’m not sure how long it outlived the 1930s.
I suppose it’s kind of ironically amusing to see the woke 2010s left unable to recognize actual fascist propaganda when it comes across it. Ironic but sad.
Ah, but weed out the ‘facistic’ elements, if you will, and does the remainder not approach fairness.