Apparently Renua don't get the joke...
Last week we brought you the news that, in all the excitement of creating a new party, someone at Renua Ireland HQ forgot to go and secure a name for them on Facebook, so instead someone else went and did it for them, creating a parody page to lampoon the fledgling party.
It seems that, while having a bit of a laugh is all well and good, Renua actually want to use that name on Facebook, and they've successfully managed to petition for it back, which the parody page had to break to their fans in a style befitting that to which they had become accustomed over the past while.
The statement reads as follows:
"Ladies, Gentlemen and Undecided, it is my unhappy task to inform you that, as part of our efforts to implement a permanent revolution in Irish politics, we here in "Renua Ireland" have decided to renew the reboot and change our name.
We came to this difficult decision as it was felt "the other lot" - those fiendish impostors - have done irreparable damage to our image, so it's back to the drawing board for us, if we can find our crayons.
It has absolutely nothing to do with poor PR skills, complaining to Facebook about a vastly more popular page that was set up first with a similar name. Oh, no...
We expect our page name and URL will change in the not too distant future. Thank you for your continued support and please help spread the word"
Since then they've been posting a number of updates in a flurry of activity, perhaps to give the people that do like the page one last taste of what they're going to miss when it's all gone.
The really funny part of all this is the fact that the Renua parody page was (and still is until they take it down properly) the most popular political party page on Facebook in Ireland, with 11,182 likes, at the time of writing.
