Wonder | Socialist Action 1983

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Is it anv wonder that given all this, an election whose watch-word 'fiscal rectitude' got treated with scepticism?

Was it any wonder that the Government whose collapse was presaged by a budget proposing a £210 million cut in public was any wonder that they did not LUSI either put faith in Fianna Fail's 'better way' when its election campaign made a virtue out of trying to say as little plans?

ment 10,000 tery to there were plications su a chance of a Event So it was not for lack of issues that the election failed as a media event. But rather politicians had decided that the issues welcenous. nev were much better left until after the election was over. In recent years, there have been reterenda on abor. tion divorce which succeeded in the grip of the Catholic hierarchy, and the conSILICO over bodies and women's lives. Politicians had become used to dealing with issues of sex and pretending thev were talking about something completely different. Perhaps they might say something tive to prevent the spread of AIDS? The Bishops weighed in with the novel

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THE TGWU has launched a national 'link-up' camSocialist Action 6 March 1987