Budget 2024
John Walsh: Fine Gael misreads mood of electorate, while Sinn Féin waits in the wings
With its focus on tax cuts, Fine Gael looks like it is about to make the same mistake for the third consecutive election
The Remain side in the 2016 Brexit referendum and Hillary Clinton’s doomed US presidential bid the same year had a lot of similarities. They both stuck to their core messaging, believing that it would ultimately sway enough voters – but they failed to pick up on the mood of the electorate, which had developed different priorities.
The Remain and Clinton campaigns were one-offs, and it is unlikely they would make the same mistakes again. There ...
