Gilmore Digs a Hole

Eamon Gilmore is ruling out coalition with Sinn Fein on the basis that:

• The figures won't add up
• Incompatible policy

He may have walked himself and the Labour party into trouble in a number of ways.

For a start, he is pre-judging the outcome of the election.  Who knows how many votes any party is likely to get. 

On the issue of policy differences.  Gilmore needs to be asked to spell out which policies he is referring to.  Does he want to debate any of these?  Furthermore, which of Fine Gael's policies are attracting him. Would he care to spell these out?

Failure to deal with these questions would point to his anti-progressive coalition stance being based simply on a preference for cosying up to a conservative and reactionary Fine Gael.

Its a long way to the election yet, Gilmore's Achilles heel may have been found.