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Keeping The Council Seat In The Family

While most other TDs have resigned their council seats, Joe Higgins has his bum firmly attached in Fingal. Could this be due to internal Socialist Party wrangling?

While most other TDs have resigned their council seats, Joe Higgins has his bum firmly attached in Fingal. Could this be due to internal Socialist Party wrangling?

In the best of Irish traditions Joe wants to keep the seat in the family and pass it on to his partner, Ruth Coppinger. The nasty Democratic Centralists of the SP dont agree and think it should go to a more orthodox party activist outside Joes area.

Truth be told, Party Leader Kevin MacLoughglin feels its his right to hold the seat for a year. Little Lenin MacLoughlin feels his profile is not high enough for one who holds the exalted title of General Secretary (the expenses would do nicely as well).

This could all end in tears, Little Lenin gets his moment of glory, but the SP loses the council seat.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
 1   Whatever     Justin Moran    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:45 
 2   But     Curious    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:51 
 3   lie     Trim Reaper 2    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:55 
 4   Who Is Going To Get The Seat???     Fat Reaper    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:56 
 5   Who is in charge?     Flummoxed    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:11 
 6   An interesting debate about the SP     Badman    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:19 
 7   Little Lenin MacLoughlin The Outstanding Mediocrity Of The Party     Trim Reaper    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:37 
 8   Badman     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:59 
 9   Another load of bollocks     KF    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:22 
 10   SP Come Out Well?     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:32 
 11   answers     KF    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:48 
 12   SP have dropped a few of Trotskys tenets     Pat C    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:55 
 13   I fear to ask     Justin Moran    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:11 
 14   Throne     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:14 
 15   I'll bite     Andrew    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:30 
 16   SP in the North     Janus    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:33 
 17   andrew     pat c    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:33 
 18   We've All Read On Indy     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:36 
 19   Thanx Andrew     Justin Moran    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:50 
 20   SP in elections     Flummoxed    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:53 
 21   Sick to The Back Teeth     Pettycoat Luce    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:54 
 22   It's the mediocrities that you have to watch     Badman    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:55 
 23   Pettycoat     Curious    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:56 
 24   What the hell?     Jonno    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:58 
 25   Trotsky     Trim Reaper    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:58 
 26   Jonno     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 17:01 
 27   That was nothing     Andrew    Mon Apr 28, 2003 17:01 
 28   again sorry     john throne    Mon Apr 28, 2003 20:57 
 29   Jonno/KF & SP/SY     Durutti    Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:02 
 30   The SP leadership's betrayal of its members     Left observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:53 
 31   Thrones lies     Cordelia    Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:36 
 32   Straight lines     Daithi    Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:55 
 33   Nice to see the leftist fringe in disarray     Josef    Tue Apr 29, 2003 13:25 
 34   Squabbling?     left observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 13:57 
 35   The Hadden Variations.     Durutti    Tue Apr 29, 2003 14:47 
 36   Lies & Lies     pat c    Tue Apr 29, 2003 15:12 
 37   SPECIAL ORDERS     TROTWATCH    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:07 
 38   Backbiting     Jim Monaghan    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:34 
 39   Jim     Pat c    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:45 
 40   slagging or discussing?     left observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:47 
 41   Amusement     Cordelia    Tue Apr 29, 2003 19:27 
 42   holy crap, you people really hate the sp (now that the swp have left the site en masse)     socialist observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 19:35 
 43   Holy crap! this is the 43rd comment!     socialist troll    Wed Apr 30, 2003 03:53 
 44   amusement?     left observer    Wed Apr 30, 2003 08:59 
 45   Pat C     KF    Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:26 
 46   There is a need for an organisation     Jim Monaghan    Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:14 
 47   KF     pat c    Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:20 
 48   KF(2)     pat c    Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:26 
 49   Pat's points     left observer    Wed Apr 30, 2003 14:47 
 50   left observor     pat c    Wed Apr 30, 2003 15:19 
 51   So Why Did Left Observor Come On This Thread?     Socialist Troll    Wed Apr 30, 2003 15:32 
 52   Your just right     figment    Thu May 01, 2003 00:01 
 53   Figment     pat c    Thu May 01, 2003 10:45 
 54   Tory Island     John    Thu May 01, 2003 14:32 
 55   John Of God     pat c    Thu May 01, 2003 14:56 
 56   No SP here     Garcia Oliver    Thu May 01, 2003 20:06 
 57   Good Job Mr Garcia     Magneto    Fri May 02, 2003 10:37 
 58   yeah john the SP/SWP are sooooo radical     thomas    Sat May 03, 2003 15:29 
 59   lie     m    Mon May 05, 2003 02:49 
 60   But     Magneto    Mon May 05, 2003 16:23 
 61   Magneto: answer this!     Someone who was in Labour Youth in the 1980s    Tue May 06, 2003 11:18 
 62   4th Time I have Answered This     Magneto    Wed May 07, 2003 10:36 
 63   Magneto stop clogging up newswire     FK    Thu May 08, 2003 00:05 
 64   FK     Magneto    Thu May 08, 2003 10:28 


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