jimmycrackcorm wrote: » It's this type of thinking that had Michael Lowry topping the poll on Tipperary every election despite the tribunal findings. SF have a good on the ground reputation but I personally feel that the job of a TD should be primarily focused on the national level. Ignoring a mining pensions crisis because people are living longer just for a populist view to keep the age at 65 is simply not prudent as an example.
is_that_so wrote: » Eh, the people polled.
frillyleaf wrote: » I do understand this is not realistic but it really is one rule for TD’s and another for ordinary Joe soap. Some of the pensions former TD’s are huge and are given at a much earlier age not to mention other perks. They can’t possibly see the world through other people’s views with that level of comfort and wealth. I wonder will any of the parties suggest that TD’s salaries and pensions will be capped. I’m surprised this hasn’t happened yet. I’m surprised SF haven’t suggested reform in this!
Hamsterchops wrote: » Sorry, but does that mean that when asked about Leo's leadership, 35% of the public voted for him to remain Taoiseach, and that 34% of people voted for Mary Lou to become Taoiseach? ...because if so, Mary Lou is right there!
Knowall1 wrote: » Ask your SF canvassers was Gerry Adams in the IRA. They will tell you a lie. And if they can't tell the truth on that simple thing then why believe it on anything else
jimmycrackcorm wrote: » Would you be happy if the employment law was changed so that you can be turfed out of your job after 5 years without any recourse?
partyguinness wrote: » Conversely there are plenty of vote for FF or FG without knowing anything about the candidate. "Oh sure we always vote FF/FG"- they couldn't tell you why. This slavish adherence to a civil war menatality
is_that_so wrote: » No , just voters locked into to a party. Same as every party. Fewer now I reckon as many of us have become a lot more floating. Hence the proliferation of auction politics to woo voters.
partyguinness wrote: » Well I find that the reason they are locked into a particular party derives from their civil war era grand or great grand parents and it has just been inherited.
is_that_so wrote: » Like some diehard SF and Labour voters I know!
Matt Barrett wrote: » Nobody said it was exclusive, but I know FG and FF families because that's how they refer to themselves. It's not healthy for the public to vote along party lines IMO.
partyguinness wrote: » That's impressive considering SF did not remove its policy of abstention from Dail Eireann until 1986.
is_that_so wrote: » It's not, but now not as prevalent as it used to be.
quokula wrote: » I got quite confused reading that article, until I realised it was several years old and not related to this election. Interestingly, if you compare those predictions to what has actually happened, government spending has in fact gone up by the 12 billion predicted by Labour and FG in that article, from 68 to 80 billion.
MACHEAD wrote: » Legal entitlement in itself doesn't mean that every claimant will get through the red tape and bureaucracy surrounding most services. That is what public representatives do to aid and support their constituents. It matters not one jot what party (if any) they are a member of, if they do their job effectively, efficiently and without fear or favour, then they will be rejected or re-elected on the merit of that.
debok wrote: » There in favour of Europe
blanch152 wrote: » I am happy to vote for councillors in local elections who have a good record on issues like that. However, when voting for general elections, we are voting for legislators and Ministers, that is a completely different skillset. Sinn Fein, and Fianna Fail before them, together with independents like the Healy-Raes build their reputation on getting things for constituents. That is the absolutely last thing I want TDs to do, so another reason not to vote for either of them.
blanch152 wrote: » Has it?https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/d8796b-r/ Government expenditure in 2019 was €67.4bn.
Amirani wrote: » They've campaigned against every single EU treaty. They campaigned against Ireland joining the EU in the first place and campaigned for withdrawal in 1975. They're not pro-Europe, they have no track record of it. They may be paying some lip service to it the past year or 2, but that's just to sound different to the Brits.
Deleted User wrote: » If Sinn Fein cleaned up their act and removed the bloody bank robbing thugs, they would already have had a Taoiseach
JP Liz V1 wrote: » Don't all parties have these thugs
Matt Barrett wrote: » They do but as with SF they are usually drummed out.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Ya, that’s why Ferris was thrown out for heading down to Roscommon in a Hiace to pick up the murderers of a police officer of the State. The illiterate scumbag. Get off the stage, Matt.
Matt Barrett wrote: » The other parties don't have thugs? Does Conlon ring a bell? Feighan? I think you're responding to something else.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » They all pale into insignificance into having a TD who hopped into a clapped out van and drove to a prison to pick up the men who shot a Garda dead. That’s thuggery, Matt. That’s the sort of thing that people don’t forget.
blanch152 wrote: » Ferris, Ellis, Houlihan, Adams, last I checked, they were all still members. Think Slab has left though.
