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Young Persons Political Party

youngpolitico · 2015-01-21 20:16:27

Hi all, I'm a 21 year old student. The next general election will be the first time I will be able to vote for who is to represent me in Dáil Éireann. I've been thinking for a while who I would vote for, but party wise, I would not give my vote to any of them. I would also not give my vote to an independent candidate as I…

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#62 10-02-2015 5:10pm
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That's her personal opinion but the new party has said that it will allow its members a free vote on any issues like abortion. Eddie Hobbs who's the other key figure in that party has the opposite opinion on abortion to her.

The party having autonomous members won't bode well for their chances of running a Government. This seems more like a half-baked idea, rather than a real political party. I wonder what their stance is on defence spending. Right now, I dislike FG/FF/Labour because of their refusal to even talk about increasing defence spending. I dislike SF because they want to cut spending by even more (we spend less than a quarter of the recommended GDP%, and less than a third of the E.U. average).

If they are pragmatic and realistic in their approach to defence spending (as in, either signing an official pact with another power or committing to real neutrality, and not relying on Britain to do the work for us) then I might consider being open to the rest of their policies.

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