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Simplified party policy comparison

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  • 25-04-2015 2:05pm
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    Idioteque
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    Would it be worthwhile having some agreed format where all of the parties in the upcoming election have to complete a template document which lists their key and secondary policies, stances on certain issues affecting Irish society with all of the necessary detail, facts and figures to prove the policies are realistic to achieve?

    Making it very easy for the electorate to compare like with like and cut out all of the usual rhetoric.


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    expectationlost
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    which candidate have doing something like that for some elections http://whichcandidate.ie/, or its called a mainfesto


    they are also plans to establish a budget office which would cost alternative budgets prepared by opposition parties

    https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2015-04-15a.432


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    Godge
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    expectationlost wrote: »
    which candidate have doing something like that for some elections http://whichcandidate.ie/

    That doesn't always help. For example, I just did the one for Dublin-South West. It showed that my highest compatibility rating was 48% (Labour) just ahead of the Greens. However, three independents and FF and FG all rated above 38%.

    After that, there was a big gap to less than 20% for the likes of Murphy and SF.

    All that I learned was that there is no one party that is anywhere close to my views. The mainstream parties are closest (FG, Labour, FF and Green) but none are more than 50% in agreement.

    It probably explains why over the last 40 years I have voted for all of them plus the PDs, DL and an independent or two. It is also why I don't tend to put much faith in these types of surveys. If two or three of those issues were more important for me than others, that would swing my vote to which of the main parties I would vote for.


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