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Need for FG/Lab Unity

  • 06-10-2010 1:22pm
    #1
    Imhof Tank
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    There is a view emerging that a quick general election before December, with the parties campaigning on the basis of their 4 year budget proposals would allow voters to assess the various options and select the 4 year plan they want and give a new government a "strong mandate".

    Surely without a Mullingar Accord type arrangement, FG and Labour will produce radically different proposals, which they will then proceed to bastardise beyond recognition in their post election programme for government negotiations, leaving both FG and Labour voters with some sort of compromise plan which neither voted for and the new government with no more of a mandate then the current government?

    Last night on Vincent Browne for example there was Simon Coveney talking about cuts etc, while Kathleen Lynch was taking a directly opposite position - even talking about stimulus spending (increasing borrowing - and the deficit - to fund the stimulus package). How could those positions be compromised with both parties' credibility intact?


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  • #2
    murphaph
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    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    How could those positions be compromised with both parties' credibility intact?
    They can't. Labour and FG are NOT natural partners. Labour and FF would be better suited together.

    I want FG to style itself as an Irish Conservative Party, someone to stand up for the middle classes who foot the bill for most everything but get the least back from it. Labour can be the lefties with their idiotic spendthrift economic policies (only the FF of the last decade can compete with them) and FF can go to hell. I will be voting for FG as I want a party list system brought in and they are the only ones proposing it. A list system would help to fundamentally change Irish politics and help remove the parish pump from the Dail.


  • #3
    Imhof Tank
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    murphaph wrote: »
    They can't. Labour and FG are NOT natural partners. Labour and FF would be better suited together.

    I want FG to style itself as an Irish Conservative Party, someone to stand up for the middle classes who foot the bill for most everything but get the least back from it. Labour can be the lefties with their idiotic spendthrift economic policies (only the FF of the last decade can compete with them) and FF can go to hell. I will be voting for FG as I want a party list system brought in and they are the only ones proposing it. A list system would help to fundamentally change Irish politics and help remove the parish pump from the Dail.

    If Labour dont like the list system proposal, FG will ditch lt in an instant post electrion. Isnt that the problem with the coalition model - without a pre elction pact FG voters like yourself (and Labour voters) have no idea which manifesto promises are negotiable and which are not


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