After all who do we think we are? Instead why not give an NUI graduate or TCD graduate a platform to say how they feel our pain and hope that we will go away. Well, I won't, the issue won't and we won't. It is an issue that is straightforward to fix and long past time to fix it. And I suspect everyone knows it.
Not that this issue alone would be sufficient to get anyone elected. However, it would seem that at least some of the candidates are twigging that there is a constituency out there who recognise the urgent need to reform the Seanad and are eager to elect someone who is hungry to get cracking on the work involved. Combine this with the growing possibility of the government lacking a working majority in the Seanad and you get a concerted effort from them not to allow someone from outside the government parties get a seat.
Indeed, I had another NUI candidate call me today to emphasis their personal commitment to extending rights to those of us outside the NUI or TCD. I reckon that as more folks are seeing that there is merit in the points I've been making, the more it will start to everyone's agenda.
Misquoting Gandhi, I think we're possibly in the third phase.
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Sure, cos you're the only one who has ever made those points.
I'm in favour of social inclusion, if someone else is can I say they are copying me?
I didn't suggest they were copying, rather that the issue must have some resonance.
I would say that the real analogous phrase would be "I'm one of the socially excluded, if people are talking about social exclusion then perhaps we might get something done and one of us might get to talk it".
Note: I'm not comparing myself to the socially excluded, just using your phrase.
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