More revelations on Green Party ministerial rotation secret deal (part 2)

More on the secret Green Ministerial rotation deal from David Corcoran over on Politics.ie http://www.politics.ie/2512530-post63.html

"This weekend's Phoenix (now online for those who have a subscription) has an interesting take on this as their lead story - the rotation thing is much bigger than we might think.

- Gormley did a deal with Sargent to support him as first party leader, then tried to angle to him to get the gig in order to have a bigger profile to tackle Michael McDowell in Dublin South East

- Instead of becoming leader, he was given first dibs on any cabinet job if they got into Government

- During the FF/Grn/(PD) negotiations after the '07 election a deal was being hammered out to allow all of the Green TDs have a go at being minister, this (it's suggested by Phoenix) is to ensure no dissent by parliamentary party members when times got tough

Quote from the Phoenix article ... "Gormley’s calculation was that unless TDs Mary White, Ciaran Cuffe and Paul Gogarty were rewarded with a partial share of the spoils of office, support for coalition would be harder to sustain as the going got rougher".

- Eamon Ryan is being left alone in his cabinet job in exchange for him not challenging for the leadership"


This is almost unbelievable. The blatant deception and two faced nature of this is truly shocking (and that is saying something for the Green Party).

This raises a number of very important questions;

Eamon Ryan was either being kept in the dark about this, or he himself was lying. RTE reported that "Mr Ryan said he was not aware of any agreement reached to rotate senior ministerial posts among party members" Link. How could he not have known about this???

Is it believable that Dan Boyle and the other Green ministers knew about this but Eamon Ryan didnt? Is this the way the Greens do business? What other secret deals do we not know about?

I'm amazed that the Green grassroots are not rebelling over this. Amazed, but sadly, not surprised.

The Green Party espouse transparency, fairness and democratic decision making processes. They say these are the most important things in politics. It was Gormley himself in his famous Planet Bertie in 2007 who said "The gombeenism has to end, my friends".

Instead the gombeenism continues unabated. It's now the rule of law on Planet Gormley.