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MEP Childers resigns from Labour
Labour MEP Nessa Childers has written to Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore confirming her resignation from the party.
She says Labour is allowing Fine Gael to pursue endless austerity policies which go against the party’s core values.
“The policy of austerity is discredited in Europe and, increasingly, at home,” she wrote, saying those policies are a “profoundly immoral way to run our country”.
Ms Childers said she had increasingly found herself discouraged and prevented from advocating a distinctive social democratic position within the Labour party.
“While I have remained constant in my views, the Labour leadership has drifted away from a progressive policy approach,” she wrote.
“My attitude is vilified as disloyal or opportunistic when, in fact, I am defending and promoting the party’s core values.”
She said a “low point” for her was feeling abandoned by the party leadership for opposing the appointment of Kevin Cardiff to the EU Court of Auditors.
Ms Childers says she’ll run in next year’s European elections as an independent candidate within the European Socialists and Democrats Group.
The MEP for Leinster resigned from the Labour Parliamentary Party in April.
Eamon Gilmore Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
The Ministry of Whining and Dining, “Eamon Eatmore”-Not to be outdone by Skint Piggy and The Walking Fart(Reilly) is touring the world doling out Chinese counterfeit second hand Strawberry flavoured bananas and 10 sheets of high grade photocopied Anglo bond holders notes to the Rotten island Diaspora.
Eamon tweets that he really is enjoying himself clocking up the expenses.
He says it’s a great job and why not – It a laugh all the way to the bank.
A hundred grand a year
Plus say sixty grand expenses
Plus a huge state pension
Plus, plus, plus,
Ha, Ha, Ha and I can still carry the Socialist torch
