Labour and Ruairí Quinn's history lesson – Cartoonist Jarla's View

EDUCATION MINISTER Ruairí Quinn and his colleagues might study what Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole wrote on Tuesday:

❛Who wrote this in February 2011, just after the general election:

❛The Government will become deeply unpopular because promises of real change have not been realised. The smaller party will take the biggest battering, as it always does. Fine Gael will consolidate its position as the party of orthodoxy and ‘responsibility’. Labour will be devoured from two sides, its radical support eaten by Sinn Féin, the ULA and Independents and its ‘respectable’ support consumed by Fine Gael. The voters who were ruthless enough to decimate Fianna Fáil will think nothing of decapitating Labour.

❛Well, okay, I did. But anyone with an eye to the bloody obvious could have written the same.❜

Read the rest of what Fintan O'Toole says here: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/labour-leaders-keep-the-party-on-the-road-to-its-own-doom-1.1345500?page=1