That’s tea with a small t, but it describes possible campaigning activities described at ‘hourly’ meetings which took place in several locations last weekend with independent candidates wanting to start a new political movment of ‘like minded’ independents who would act together in the Dáil like ‘a party without a whip.’
Some of these meetings were attended by people who worked on the Obama campaign – big whizz given how many people from Ireland went over to work on the campaign.
No this is not a political fiction novel.
So far the group consists of Paul Sommerville in Dublin South East, Shane Ross in Dublin South, Stephen Donnelly in Wicklow with strong pleadings being made to David McWilliams in Dun Laoghaire to join them. And they are looking for more people to run. Especially women – any woman in fact cos it’s looking slightly testosterone heavy at the moment. Not that this ‘party’ are going to spend much time talking about equality you understand.
Sommerville on Tonight with Vincent Browne this evening described that he believed there would be ‘a group of people who would bring ideas to government from within the Dáil – he added that ‘we need well informed economists inside the Dáíl.’
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