All that is weak, shifty and treacherous about party alignments and political allegiances in national politics are emerging in the worst way in the run-up to the May elections next year.

Perhaps this is most exemplified by the phenomenon of the guest candidate, who has led a charmed life in our politics without suffering the rebuke of rejection by the electorate.

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