Dwarf.Shortage wrote: » Or maybe I'm caught in a horrible trap where I can easily afford the mortgage repayments on a house but the cost of renting the exact same house is crippling my ability to put a deposit together. As a single applicant on €70,000 with a €50,000 deposit I could spend €295,000 which wouldn't buy a two bed apartment in Dublin, because of my job I will always have to work in Dublin. I am of the opinion that someone earning double the average industrial wage should be able to afford an apartment. I don't want anything for free, I just want a system that makes it possible for me to pay for it and doesn't leave me stranded renting in perpetuity. But do continue, politics is moving away from valuing the truth you might as well ride the wave.
is_that_so wrote: » Hmm, Carty who freely admitted he'd be straight back from Europe once the election came!
jmayo wrote: » So Matt enlighten us on your favourite party.
Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: » I don't know if i'll bother voting. FG - No chance. FF - Just a different version of FG Greens - Not a hope, they'll tax everything that isn't green and destroy the country. SF - If they got rid of loopy Lou and put Pearse in charge I really would consider for the 1st time in 30 years of voting for them but not ML in charge. Independents - waste of time. So I think i'll just sit at home on Saturday the 8th as there really is no point.
ReginaldSmythV wrote: » Does that mean that Fine “The Sash” Gael won’t get a vote from any “reasonable” people?
Billcarson wrote: » But yet you would take the likes of ff seriously, a party that bankrupted the country. The whiff of corruption is always below the surface for me.
Spanish Eyes wrote: » Sorry now, like many others I will never take them seriously at all. They did not cull the people you refer to (behind the wire) and the whiff of cordite is always just below the surface for me. So no I would never give them a scratch ever.
Spanish Eyes wrote: » What is it about this woman? She seems to be on the FF ticket, so even more reason for me to say no to FF. I know there are many candidates out there of every hue whom people might resent, hate, dislike etc. but this one. Sorry, never, and I hope the people in her constituency realise it too. But that's their choice I know this.
mlem123 wrote: » Just off the bus and Mary Hanafin’s team are already putting up election posters �� it has begun...
EmmetSpiceland wrote: » If SF cut ties with their “old guard” and let the whiff of cordite dissipate they really could be a party to take seriously. They have some good potential candidate in the likes of Doherty, O’Broin, Boylan and Carty, whether you like them or not. But it’s the “men behind the wire”, the funeral attenders and the ones with the “chequered” past that stop any “reasonable” voter from giving them a preference.
Mortelaro wrote: » Government, running a country, managing difficulties,never fully solving them isn't rocket science, it's just ever thus People who mistakenly think parties who were never in government, who pulpet complain and promise the heaven's should be reminded of Syriza That's what happens if you promise the earth and enter government You Disappoint Usually in a big way No prizes which party here in Ireland invited Syriza to their Ard Fheis but dropped them like hot coals when Reality bit and they no longer suited the promise the heaven's narrative
Spanish Eyes wrote: » In the interests of the Nation (their power and party sorry) they will do it. I think they have similar interests.
reg114 wrote: » The FG gov led by Enda Kenny that came to power after the economic crash blew the greatest opportunity for wholesale change this country could have ever witnessed. Decades of bloated unionised government departments like the health sector, education, the gardai could have been obliterated overnight if the political will had been present and the message conveyed to an electorate in shock after the crash. The sad fact is public sector employee numbers exploded under Bertie Ahearne at a time when technology could have been adopted to actually reduce head count. A cost benefit analysis of every government department has never been performed, this is something that could have been done under the watchful eyes of the IMF ten years ago. But Enda didnt have the guts. I recall Morgan Kelly predicting the economic collapse with confidence, equally he said cuts should have been much much deeper than Enda permitted, but what do you expect when you have a teacher as a Taoiseach ? Replace him with a failed Doctor ? Leo is like a south side version of Bertie only in a better cut suit. Both men were gifted a booming economy and both only interested in having their photos taken, and history will treat them roughly the same, because a recession is looming folks. Irelands two party system works no better than the british or the American two party systems.. They have all failed, but they have failed not simply because of their respective political infrastructures but primarily because on an apathetic public. Apathy is the greatest threat to democracy. Watch how many people vote for FF and FG in the next election, if you are amongst them you are part of the problem. I have never voted for either party. Perhaps I'll vote for the greens.. at least they take the impending climate crisis seriously as opposed to Looney leo who thinks global warming will be a good thing FFS.. and to those who scoff at the greens lack of 'economic nous' , I say .. it was all the economic geniuses in FF who buried us financially, ( irish national debt is still 250 billion euros) and it was FF and FG who have enjoyed a cosy 'confidence and supply' partnership in recent years .. thats not democracy .. Wake up folks. If you keep voting for the same parties the outcome will be the same every single time.
EmmetSpiceland wrote: » I’m fairly sure Micheál Martin has ruled out a SF coalition.
blanch152 wrote: » Micheal Martin has ruled out going in with Sinn Fein, Fianna Fail haven't. There are plenty of leaders-in-waiting prepared to do the deal.
Spanish Eyes wrote: » My only consolation WRT a FG led Gov is the fact that they will never get into bed with SF. That's good enough for me, despite all their failings. FF on the other hand might just do it. So that's a big NO from me. I doubt I am alone in this thinking.
Augme wrote: » Fianna fail have already rules out going in with SF. It will be Fianna fail proppped up by fine gael. A reserve of what it is now.
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