Danzy wrote: » That screams out crisis but few will listen.
c.p.w.g.w wrote: » So are we going to do this for nursing too? Or Bin collecters? True gender equality for each role and job in society is an unrealistic pipe dream and is only going to embolden the fringes of both the right & left alike
AndrewJRenko wrote: » I dunno, I'm not in charge. There's a big difference between TDs/Senators/Councillors and nurses or bin collectors in fairness. But if you think it's important, maybe you'd like to start doing something about it yourself, like get a campaign going.
devlinio wrote: » Gender quotas are bull****. I don't care if my candidate is male or female. I care that they appear competent enough to get my vote.
bren2001 wrote: » They should equate to the first preference votes. You've a number of people standing over each box marking down each ballot. Take several hours for the boxes to be counted and a few more for them to be inputted in a spread sheet. Typically, all the parties work together except SF. They work by themselves.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » What videos are you talking about? But if you're going to quote from another site, you really should reference that site. Here's the 'Pro' list from the site where you found the 'Con' list that you copied above;https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/quotas I actually didn't like the ideas of quotas myself, until I looked the evidence showing that the actually work, and they're the only thing that actually works to improve gender balance of public representatives.
ForestFire wrote: » So the green party have about 8.4% of the national vote and conveniently the government will use this to push through carbon taxes on the actual majority (the 91% that did not vote green) . Saying we are ready to accept it.... Eh... No thanks... I'm paying enough taxes, thanks very much. I mean give us a break. If you want carbon taxes, just do it yourself and stop claiming there is a clear message from the voters.... 8.4%... Really. Are they going to take all the policy's of any party that has at least 8%? No I'd doubt it very much... Jeuses... the healy Ray family probably have close to 8% on their own in kerry :-) Let's listen to them........ By the way I'm all for green policies, but instead of taxing everything, that will have little effect, except raise money, that is not spent on anything green, maybe the message is, to give us grants and incentives to insulate our homes, convert to cleaner energy??
Aska wrote: » Anyword on young Lowry in tipp? Michaels son I assume, saw all the 'team Lowry' posters around the place down there
Blueshoe wrote: » The 3 candidates who are current councillors were secretly filmed during a prime time investigation and said they would act in the developers favour in return for cash and or work for their own companies. The clips were replayed last week with the candidates being approached for comment since they were running for election. One in particular was a nasty pos. Looks like they have all been elected again in spite of them being shown up as corrupt parasites
ForestFire wrote: » , maybe the message is, to give us grants and incentives to insulate our homes, convert to cleaner energy??
AndrewJRenko wrote: » So there are three corrupt councillors, and yeah, there's probably a few more that haven't been caught yet. But it's a big leap from there to 'they're all corrupt and brown envelopes', which the same as the oul 'all priests are paedos' and 'all Gardai are on the take'. It's just nonsense. Most politicians are decent folks, doing their best to improve the country according to their values. Councillors pay is pretty crap, so they get next to nothing for the chance of being hounded by their constituences for the house or the planning or the pothole. But if you don't like the idea of corrupt councillors getting re-elected, there's one thing you can do to reduce the chances of this happening.
L1011 wrote: » Someone's about to be elected twice to the same council (Meath) which means she'll have to resign one seat immediately and hope her suggested replacement is coopted. Someone had asked if this had happened before and I don't think it had!
Dirkziggler wrote: » Can you explain the situation mate.
L1011 wrote: » Candidate believes her electoral base is split over two LEAs and runs in both. She has now won a seat in both. She needs to select which one to actually take and resign the other. If she was in a party they would nominate someone to take the other; but she's Independent so in theory the whole council decides the replacement. Convention is they do accept the suggestion Most candidates who run in multiple areas are cranks but it would appear not here
Dirkziggler wrote: » Right right sorry I'm not familiar with that at all. Does that not give her an unfair advantage due to being offered a chance of 2 electorates.
L1011 wrote: » Parties of that scale don't get Electoral Act funding. You need to have got 2% of a national poll
mugsymugsy wrote: » Do SF really not work with others on the tally work?
donspeekinglesh wrote: » I think she said she might take legal action to be able to take both seats.
