“It was the worst ever election result for Fine Gael in the history of the party. Did you hear any political commentator make that point in any of the analyses?”
Lucinda Creighton, a former Fine Gael TD and one-time Minister of State for European Affairs, believes that the general election campaign was lacklustre, and was defined by a lack of big ideas or policy debate.
In this podcast with Ian Kehoe, she argues that the lack of policy clash is due to the fact that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have moved to the centre-left and are now coalescing around the same ideas.
Plus, Creighton argues that the only thing that differentiated most of the political parties was how much money they were willing to spend soliciting votes. In this podcast, she also talks about Ireland’s waning influence in Europe, the issue of government formation, and ideology in politics.
