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Labour are 7% in the polls - So who here is voting for them &why

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Icepick


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    They've been consistently strong on things like reproductive rights, gay rights, secular policies (keeping Church and state separate).
    big failure then
    90+% of primary schools are still catholic and instead of opening secular schools, we have these multi-denominational ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭theaceofspies


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0304/684559-fatal-foetal-abnormalities/

    The Labour Party now resemble Hitler in the Bunker. A Party totally resigned to end game. They were founded to represent the working class:pac:; all they can offer now is this tripe. These people know they are going down at the next election and are just scrapping the bottom of their own rotten barrell and will do anything to implement as much of their sad schemes as possible before they are voted out.
    Champagne Socialists. The irony is that if they were to return to founding principles they would be in a majority government:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    all they can offer now is this tripe...... just scrapping the bottom of their own rotten barrell and will do anything to implement as much of their sad schemes as possible

    Strong & stupid words to describe the devastating plight of forcing women to carry non-viable foetuses to term.

    Bold, is particularly pathetic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    Probably give them a second preference largely because the anti austerity parties are a bunch of moaners and whingers with nothing in the way of credible policies to offer.


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


    They were founded to represent the working class:pac:;

    Actually, they weren't.

    They were founded as "The Irish Trade Union Congress & Labour Party" - the "political wing" of the trade union movement in other words.

    The "working class" has historically favoured FF at election times and, unsurprisingly, we have largely gotten FF style conservative policies as a result.

    And government decisions are above all accumulative, voting for Labour once when you are 18 and FF or FG in every subsequent election means you shouldn't be surprised if the country continues on with the status quo because it takes a lot more than one election to change public policy and have the time needed for the results to filter through on the ground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,600 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    View wrote: »
    Actually, they weren't.

    They were founded as "The Irish Trade Union Congress & Labour Party" - the "political wing" of the trade union movement in other words.

    The "working class" has historically favoured FF at election times and, unsurprisingly, we have largely gotten FF style conservative policies as a result.

    And government decisions are above all accumulative, voting for Labour once when you are 18 and FF or FG in every subsequent election means you shouldn't be surprised if the country continues on with the status quo because it takes a lot more than one election to change public policy and have the time needed for the results to filter through on the ground.

    BUT Labour have morphed into those other parties.
    Hard to tell them apart now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Icepick


    BUT Labour have morphed into those other parties.
    Hard to tell them apart now.
    no, it's not and plenty of evidence has been posted in this thread


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