At a meeting in August called to discuss EU Austerity, Frank Keoghan, president of the Irish Technical Engineering and Electrical Union and active in the Irish Peoples Movement, called for a strategy that would bring the people of Ireland into political confrontation both with the Irish puppet political elite and their puppet masters in Brussels. My metaphor - his idea, although it seemed very familiar when he argued it. And that was probably because in Ireland the public response to aspects of the austerity package like the savage cuts in public sector pay has, as yet, been fairly muted, as it has been here, so far. We need to change that political mood in Scotland too.
