In the league table of fevers, an election sits a lot closer to scarlet than Saturday night, yet we appear to have found ourselves trapped on a voting merry-go-round. We’ve gone from the US primaries into our own general election, Northern Ireland Assembly elections, followed by Brexit, the US election, the French election, now a Fine Gael contest and the UK general election. Our franchise hasn’t just been exercised, it’s been undergoing a series of ultra-marathons. The champagne reserves haven’t yet been exhausted at Varadkar HQ and the countdown has already begun to another general election. Fianna Fáil will collapse the government as soon as the national interest dictates — national interest being the name of a…

Source: The Times June 06, 2017 00:41 UTC