Eeyore did strike me at the time as having no integrity (and so unmemorable that I can't even remember his actual name). His main advantage was in having not wasted billions invading to end up with a civil war. (And I have no idea why our government decided to help, unless it was in the hope that the US might be persuaded to take on northern Ireland as the 51st state, knowing that the Republic doesn't want it).

I don't think I'd like a system with just two parties; over here we probably have the opposite problem.