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Labour to be left out in the cold?

  • 29-01-2011 9:39pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭


    Looking likely Fine Gael will brush them aside and form a minority government with 72 plus seats, any thoughts on this?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Looking likely Fine Gael will brush them aside and form a minority government with 72 plus seats, any thoughts on this?

    Please remember that in the latest opinion poll Fine Gael also lost some ground (-1%).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    fg's buddies ff are determined to have this occur - I too am asking why?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    any thoughts on this?

    Yes, it's nonsense :) A stable Government is what's needed, a minority Government ain't stable, especially in the land of the hurler on the ditch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭sligopark


    johngalway wrote: »
    Yes, it's nonsense :) A stable Government is what's needed, a minority Government ain't stable, especially in the land of the hurler on the ditch.

    I think this just answered my question John ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    sligopark wrote: »
    fg's buddies ff are determined to have this occur - I too am asking why?

    FF looking to smear FG with their own dirt by casting the illusion that FG are no different from FF so FF can easily support them. Cynical load of horse chestnuts by a distasteful, dishonest group of out of touch, irresponsible nation wreckers.

    Liked that answer better myself :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭View


    Looking likely Fine Gael will brush them aside and form a minority government with 72 plus seats, any thoughts on this?

    Perfectly possible if FG can make up the numbers elsewhere - that said, they'd ideally need a small political party such as the PDs or Greens in the last two Oireachti (if that is the correct plural of Oireachtas) as they tend to be more stable than independents.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    They could get the greens or a bunch of independents.

    However, I doubt FG will get that many.

    I'd recon about 45-50 seats for FG, 40-45 for FF, 35-40 for Labour, 10ish SF and the rest independents and the remainder of the Green party.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    There is no way that FF will do a genuine "Tallaght Strategy" whereby Dukes declared an end to petty politics in the 1980s so that Ray McSharry could balance the national books. They know it consigned FG to an electoral wasteland for years thereafter.

    All FF want to do is interrupt the free flow of transfers from eliminated Labour candidates, particularly in 3 and 4 seaters, and give FF a chance of getting them instead of FG.

    Martin obviously saw the Joan Burton trainwreck on VB last monday night and Martin is merely positioning his party for the inevitable transfers. If Labour wants to counter this offer they should get rid of her and give the Deputy job to someone more amenable from old Labour....Jan O Sullivan maybe...and the Finance portfoliio to someone credible who is not Joan Burton.

    If Labour are too thick to realise the damage she caused them then Martins strategy will likely work, to an extent.


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