Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael receive a harsh lesson in social media politics
When Solidarity/People Before Profit put forward a motion to pay student nurses, alarm bells should have been ringing in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael HQ’s. Not only was the motion non-binding and would not have given the nurses a single cent had it been passed, but public pay is also not voted on in the Dáil, it is negotiated between the Government and Trade Unions not the Government and opposition parties. It was classic party politics. Propose an unrealistic motion …