+1 on the smart money.
I remember watching clips of the pre-coalition Labour conference and several highly impassioned speech urging them in with FG. So much of the talk we heard just vanished. Much of the grand Labour in Government rhetoric morphed into we we’re given a mandate to get the country back on track quick enough.
Can’t blame the opposition and FG won’t be giving an inch so they are going to at least need some new bullshit to get them the summer. Even then the spectre of communications problems didn’t do Brian Cowen any good.