Any lingering doubts I had about the extent to which Ireland, just as the rest of Europe, languishes under a Fidelphile Fugue were extinguished this morning with correspondence from the Progressive Democrats, the nearest thing we have to a free-market classic liberal political party.
I am not a member of any Irish political party and have little enthusiasm for any of them. This hasn't stopped Fine Gael, The PDs, even Northern Ireland's SDLP from regularly requesting donations. What surprised me today, however, was not the invitation from the PDs to enter their annual prize draw, but the third prize offered: an all-expenses paid trip to Cuba, no doubt helping to replenish Castro's diminishing coffers with badly needed hard currency. I can understand Sinn Fein or, maybe, the Labour party coming up with this, but the PDs?
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