Politics

Elaine Byrne: Languishing Labour party is no longer regarded as credible by voters

Labour under Ivana Bacik is allowing other left-leaning parties to attract support while it is static at 4 per cent as it pushes strategies that are amateurish, flaky and populist

Ivana Bacik’s declaration in her televised leader's speech that the Labour party aims to deliver one million homes in 10 years had echoes of a similar pledge made by the Australian Labor Party last year. Picture: Rollingnews

Ivana Bacik is not turning the Labour party into an electoral force, despite fanciful and whimsical suggestions to the contrary last week.

The last time Labour reached the high octaves of 5 per cent was in the March 2022 Red C Business Post poll. The Dublin Bay South TD had just taken over the reins from Alan Kelly after a strange and as yet not fully explained coup d'état. The Bacik bounce of one per ...