Labour Party in total freefall.

An earlier blog of mine on the issue of Labour's hatred of rural Ireland has been borne out by the fact that out of 24,300 votes cast only 1,112 were for their misfortunate candidate.About 4.6 % of the vote cast.This compares to 8,994 out of 42,752 in the general election of two years ago.21% of the votes cast.
While there was a huge wave of sympathy for Helen Mc Entee  the winner ,on account of the death of her father by his own hand , it is only a remote possibility that any true blue Labour supporter would have voted for her for sympathy reasons, as a second preference vote would have been just as good.

So I would guess that all Fine Gael diehards in the constituency did come out to vote for her and maybe about another 2,000 or thereabouts because of respect for the work her father and grandfather put into the IFA and the GAA. In my view about 33 % of people are fairly comfortable financially under this Government and these wealthier people belong to Fine Gael.(The Patsy of the ranchers.)

I would guess that keeping this 33 % sweet is the overarching policy of Fine Gael if they want to have a second term in Government and this is what they will do,Labour or no Labour.
Labour has long lost its natural base of the working and labouring classes.If there are only 1,112 tradesmen ,labourers and working class people in East Meath then I am a monkey's uncle.
Under the authoritarian influence of those who kicked away from Sinn Fein ,via Sinn Fein the Worker's Party via the Workers Party via Democratic Left to take over totally the reins of the Labour Party , it has been shaped into an anti Cathollic , anti Christian,stridently feminist,niche for  aggressive secularism and atheism,a rallying point for pro choice womb raiders and a promulgator of the gay lifestyle over and above that of the nuclear and extended family.
There is no point reiterating that when all the principal leaders of Europe were honouring the Pope on his elevation to the shoes of the fisherman in Rome,our two buckos ,who are way  too educated for God ,were away in America sucking up to Obama.
People do not forget that Gilmore,the Labour leader  broke off diplomatic relations with the Vatican  ,in what is a 90% Catholic country.
Nor do they forget that Burton  actively discriminates against third and fourth children in the Budget by treating them as less worthy of financial assistance than their first and second siblings and cut the mobility allowance for the most severely disabled members of society.And introduced a household charge etc etc etc.

I would say that only a totally out o f touch lunatic would parade Ivana Bacchic from Trinity mouthing about gay marriage and spouting pro abortion views at the start of the Labour campaign,But she did and they did.
I hazard a guess that the 1,112 votes they gathered represents the gay,atheist ,anti Christian and pro abortion sector of the constituency,although  Sinn Fein may also have captured a slice of the womb raider vote ,given their strong pro choice policy.
The only chance Labour have to survive is to jettison the former Workers Party infiltrators and over educated third level anti Catholic bigots and aggressive secularists and atheists from its ranks and revert to being a Party that promotes the well being of the working classes ,as it once did.
Otherwise the downwards slide will continue and accelerate to hover around the 263 votes (1.1 %) that the eviscerated Workers Party and former comrade of the Labour leader e Seamus Mc Donaugh got.