Centre wobbles in protest by-election
The by-election campaigns have been negative to the point of nihilism, reflecting the electorate's angry mood.
‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
Yeats’ apprehension concerned a wider canvass than our mere domestic polity. However for the traditional political parties observing the by-election campaigns, the thought must have occurred as to whether indeed “the centre cannot hold”.
At the time of writing, I don’t know the result in the two by-elections. We do know that never has our politics been so fragmented. ...
