Name Dropping

I think that it will be hard to keep up the pace with these blogs over the next 10 weeks.  Anybody serious about change will need to be playing some part in the coming election.  Not necessarily following a particular candidate or party, though that would help of course. 

There are lots of other activities to attend to.  Any protests called need to have big numbers.  The print media need to have a constant flow of letters and comments on the on-line editions.  Local and national radio needs to be monitored and every opportunity taken to pursue progressive politics and take on the conservative parties and their local spokespeople or candidates.  Creative street protest and/or theatre at strategic points in the campaign could make a difference.

Ideas need to be fed into te ether in anyway possible.  For those of us who may have some time to sit at the computer, the cyber war will have to go on.

Here's one thought that occurs to me for a start.  Drop these names as often as possible.  Thatcher, Harney and McDowell.   All of these lovely people have influenced the current crop of front men, like Cowen and Lenihan.  While Fianna Fail seem to be the easiest targets here, remember that Fine Gael is the McDowell's spawning ground.  Fine Gael have a policy platform that is every bit as influenced by Thacterite neo-liberalism as their tweedle-dee twin, Fianna Fail.

Just a though - only trying to help.