This appears to be crystallizing on potential EU membership and on fishing quotas, the nation's overriding national resource.
The media is awash with the standpoints of the established figures with in the business who, understandably, don't want to see the quotas they were allocated in the 1980s, or for which they paid some serious money, nibbled away as a left-dominated government has indicated it would do.
For the last 18 years the right-dominated coalition has steadfastly propped up the status quo it engineered and declined to tinker with it, claiming it works.
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