Confidence in Cowen

Posted by diarmy on Jun 15, 2010 in Featured Articles, Politics | 0 Comments

Well the hardly surprising word from Dáil Éireann this evening is that Brian Cowen has survived along with the Fianna Fáil coalition government in a confidence vote overshadowed by the shadowy figures in the shadow cabinet. While ‘Fwinne Gwael’ have been crumbling apart in even mounds of political rubble all day, Brian sat back in the Dáil and took it all on the chin. Even the ramblings of former Labour golden boy Ruairí Quinn didn’t knock a feather out of the man in charge in Ireland. Cowen won praise from Brian Lenihan, a nod to the support he enjoys from his number two, unlike the Enda / Bruton saga.

So my predicition now is that Fianna Fáil will continue unabashed in government for the rest of 2010. There’s a nice long break for the summer coming up and Fine Gael have to find out which decade they lost their soul in and hopefully they can find Dr. Evil and his “Time Machine” to retrieve it. I can’t see Enda surviving on Thursday, nor can I see Bruton leading a split party for too long. The next poll will no doubt show Labour dip in support again as the questions on their “policies” start to bubble to the surface.

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