TWITTER ADMISSION BY DUBLIN FIANNA FÁIL TD | ‘LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIANNA FÁIL AND FINE GAEL’

‘A Fianna Fáil merger with Fine Gael makes sense,’ says grandson of FF founder

Chris Andrews

A FIANNA FÁIL TD has admitted on Twitter that the public sees no difference between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and it makes sense to him that the two should merge.
Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews later added to RTÉ that there was little difference between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Eamon Gilmore’s Labour.
In a post visible to everyone on Twitter about news of a Red C poll by the Sunday Business Post showing a Fianna Fáil slump to 18% support and little movement by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews said on October 25th:
“FG are not getting the traction in the polls because people see little difference between FF and FG. A merger makes sense to me.”
Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh welcomed the honesty from the Dublin Fianna Fáil TD.
The Sinn Féin deputy said that such a merger would bring about a real Left/Right divide in Irish politics and give people a real choice based on policies rather than personalities.
“Chris Andrews clearly sees the writing on the wall for his party but his suggestion that a merger with Fine Gael makes sense is on the money,” Aengus said.
“A merger between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would bring about a real Left/Right divide in Irish politics and give the people a real choice based on policies rather than personalities.
“For too long, politics in Ireland has been based on personality rather than policy. There is little or no policy difference between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael yet these two parties between them have held power in Ireland since the establishment of the state.
“Hopefully, one day soon they will be of one merged party on the Opposition benches in the Dáil.”