Sir, As the day of reckoning approaches, Labour Party leaders and activists are thrashing about ever more frantically trying to invent policies and devise strategies which they hope will stave off the inevitable.
Much has been said and written about why the unprecedented support which Labour received in the last general election has since collapsed so dramatically. Various theories have been put forward about arrogance, cronyism and ineptitude in fund raising but, to my mind, the real reason has been overlooked.
Following the last general election Labour betrayed the electorate and entered into an unholy alliance with Fianna Fail, the party which their leader had consistently castigated beforehand. Then, as if that were not bad enough, Labour turned its back on the PAYE taxpayers and supported the introduction of a perfidious amnesty for tax dodgers.
A week may be a long time in politics and the public memory may be short but it will take more than a week for the electorate to forget Labour's treachery after the last election when the party sold its soul for a mess of pottage. Yours, etc.,
Silchester Park, Glenageary,
Co Dublin.