Derek Mooney

No, they were never going to say otherwise in reality.

There's a great line from...

Michael Heseltine.

Michael Heseltine, when he was going against Thatcher, he approached Cecil Parkinson.

He urged Cecil Parkinson to support him.

Now, Cecil Parkinson was the party chairman at the time.

And Parkinson said, I can't.

I'm Margaret Thatcher's party chairman.

There's no way I can.

To which Michael Heseltine replied, I don't care who you say you're voting for.

So long as you vote for me.

And I think there's a small element of that around what we see there is that you can't expect certain people to say openly, no, of course, the man should go.

We should go tomorrow morning.

If a cabinet minister says that, well, then they're gone tomorrow morning.

Never mind for that.

So so you have to take this thing with a little.

You just have to have one or two filters on it just to see what's happening.

I think part of the problem is if you look at Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael vote combined, most polls now put it below 45%.

That was 80% for most of my voting career.

It then fell to 55% around the time of the crash.