Craig Hughes

But, yeah, where it goes from here, we'll just have to wait and see.

Yeah, I mean, this is something that, you know, I passed Stephen's Green most days on my way to work, that I just, I can't understand this redesign for what they're going for.

And I'm not one to step in the way of modernising, but it just seems to be bizarre that they want to take... I mean, the centre is Marmite.

Okay, well, as someone now who cycles in and out of town, Pat, that's alien to me.

Yes, that's right.

And, you know, to your listener, you know, the fact that the prospect of the party leader not being able to get their candidate over the line will be very significant for the party.

Now, look, she could prove us all wrong and Janice Boylan could romp home.

But if that doesn't happen, I think it'll lead to very serious questions within the party.

Well, I think this goes back to after the.

2020 general election, you know, when they had that really soaring popularity, they were on this kind of march.

They thought they were on this kind of march to power and they didn't want to take positions on any of the controversial topics.

They did really kind of try to stay out of the immigration debate for a long time.

And similarly, on other key areas, they tried to stay in the middle of the road.

And of course, the old political cliche, if you stand in the middle of the road long enough, you'll get knocked down.

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