Social Democrats co-founder Catherine Murphy on poor planning, emigration and political conflict

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : She reluctantly stayed when in 1999 the party merged with Labour but four years later "I just felt that too much of my energy was being taken with internal wrangling and life was too short, so I left and went Independent".
55% : Others included the universal social charge, the household tax "and the straw that broke the camel's back was the water charges" and "where it fell on the austerity ladder".
44% : "It was the era of mass protests around taxation and the burden on PAYE workers, followed by the introduction of service charges for water and refuse collection, campaigns that raged through the 1980s.

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