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General Election and Government Formation Megathread (see post #1)

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  • #1352
    Pat D. Almighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Pat D. Almighty


    1. SF
    2. Green
    3. PBP
    4. Soc Dem


  • #1353
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Used to be a card carrying paid up member of Labour until Gilmore sold out. Indo last time round. SF this time followed by left wingers all the way down.


  • #1354
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I usually have to start at the bottom and work my way up...

    1. Not anybody who wants me to finance their electoral base’s free stuff.
    2. Not Sinn Knuckledragger
    3. Not Fianna or Fine
    4. Labour generally somewhere around the middle, because, well... what harm.
    5. Decision between all the rest, In sometimes arbitrary order.

    We have a National Party candidate this time round. That prick will occupy the only unselected slot. Because he’s s prick. Know nothing about him, besides the fact that he’s a NP candidate, and consequently a prick. Admittedly, his membership of the NP is the only fact I ‘know’ to be a fact. The ‘prick’ part is an extrapolation based on that single data point.


  • #1355
    Juxtapose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭Juxtapose


    Boyd-Barrett was clear winner (if this was an actual debate). His composure and accuracy for answering the actual questions made him seem so human in comparison to the rest of them.
    Howlin and Shortall were atrocious, Mary-lou was robotic and failed to listen to anything that was said or heard other than her own voice.
    Mehole and Leo trying their best to not look like unempathetic boot lickers, but inevitably failing.

    If people are really going to fire a dart in the polling stations it sums up the mentality of this country. While i agree theres slim pickings, at least pick something you might think can change something.

    Not sure i can sit through anymore of these debates, but I like Clare Byrne because she seems pretty clued in, and well, she's not Pat Kenny.


  • #1356
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,900 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    There literally is no alternative to FF or FG

    The whole system is loaded against a new party which often happens in other countries where they get into power


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  • #1357
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    beggars_bush wrote: »
    There literally is no alternative to FF or FG

    The whole system is loaded against a new party which often happens in other countries where they get into power
    Big parties just steal their policies but having sensible policies to start with would help them.


  • #1358
    golfball37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,030 ✭✭✭golfball37


    road_high wrote: »
    "And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle"- undeniable reality is FF were the ones in power and ran a series of very unaffordable budgets that ramped up public spending beyond what we could comfortably afford. Once the **** hit the fan in 2008/9 and tax revenues collapsed FF landed us in a desperate position of falling taxes and high/rising state expenditure. We had to borrow to shore up the gaps and eventually the markets lost confidence in us and were psuhed into an IMF bailout. All under FF's watch and stewardship.

    SF and FF have learned zilch from that desperate crisis and here again we have promising to ramp up state spending on a massive scale with the very real potential to land us back right there- No Thanks!

    2bn and counting for a hospital isn't a great endorsement of FG's financial prudence tbf.


  • #1359
    scrumqueen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭scrumqueen


    Our SF candidate is in the same constituency as Richard Boyd Barrett so never gets a look in.


  • #1360
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,851 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    iCareNotOneJot wrote: »
    Anyone have any ideas where I could find out the spending being done by parties on social media campaigns for this election ?

    All parties have to report after the election on their election spend.

    https://www.sipo.ie/reports-and-publications/election-reports/


    SIPO, the Standards in Public Office quango publishes the analysis. See the link for the reports on the most recent elections.

    Of course, the reports are only as valuable as you perceive their accuracy to be.


  • #1361
    votecounts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭votecounts


    Laois offaly, so Stanley a shoe in


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  • #1362
    iCareNotOneJot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭iCareNotOneJot


    Famous last words

    'Dont vote, it only encourages them'


  • #1363
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    When are the next opinion polls due to be released does anyone know?

    After last night's leader's debate I'd like to see if there's any further trends emerging.


  • #1364
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,831 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    The lag time between some event, like the leaders debate, then start polling, then publish would be a good bit of time. Mid next week IWT, doubt it would be next Sunday.


  • #1365
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,774 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Louise O'Reilly is about 5ft6".


  • #1366
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    Turn-up for the books in Galway West? Seems the Soc Dems and Greens are battling for the last seat, presumably with Catherine Connolly:

    https://twitter.com/NuachtTG4/status/1222160002728808448


  • #1367
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    An Ciarraioch wrote: »
    Turn-up for the books in Galway West? Seems the Soc Dems and Greens are battling for the last seat, presumably with Catherine Connolly:
    https://twitter.com/NuachtTG4/status/1222160002728808448
    TG4 poll was pretty wrong in 2016
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112347222&postcount=184

    I'd say FG's Hildegarde Naughton is a goner


  • #1368
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    zell12 wrote: »
    TG4 poll was pretty wrong in 2016
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112347222&postcount=184

    I'd say FG's Hildegarde Naughton is a goner

    Shame if she is. She has been excellent in her role on the Oireachtas Committees.


  • #1369
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    kowloon wrote: »
    It's not a requirement, and that's probably a good thing. Imagine how warped things could get if people were forced to vote. It's much better that those with no opinion stay at home than turn up to vote for the most destabilising candidate or the one with the funniest name.
    I dunno. Australia fines voters for non-participation. Would easily cover the cost of running the poll.


  • #1370
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,367 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Catherine Noone under pressure to stand aside in Dublin Bay North. I think it's too late as her name will still appear on the ballot paper.

    Her comments don't surprise me at all. She has made similar smart ass comments on twitter before. She doesn't come across as a particularly nice person.


  • #1371
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Catherine Noone under pressure to stand aside in Dublin Bay North. I think it's too late as her name will still appear on the ballot paper.

    Her comments don't surprise me at all. She has made similar smart ass comments on twitter before. She doesn't come across as a particularly nice person.

    Nor bright. Terrible thing to use as a slur or defence. I think she was attempting to defend. Hard to tell.


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  • #1372
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    They don’t care about representing anyone.

    All of them?


  • #1373
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,367 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Nor bright. Terrible thing to use as a slur or defence. I think she was attempting to defend. Hard to tell.

    Well initially she denied using the term, she only admitted when the journalist said she had a recording of it.


  • #1374
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Catherine Noone under pressure to stand aside in Dublin Bay North. I think it's too late as her name will still appear on the ballot paper.

    Her comments don't surprise me at all. She has made similar smart ass comments on twitter before. She doesn't come across as a particularly nice person.
    Don't think there's much chance of a second seat there for FG anyway. Aodhan in with a shout at least, after that who knows.


  • #1375
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,573 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Well initially she denied using the term, she only admitted when the journalist said she had a recording of it.

    She has some litany of stuff on her record.


  • #1376
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    TBF FG/FF policies have us enduring a number of national crises. Don't get what's sensible about any of that. But 'stability something something...'.


  • #1377
    yaboya1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭yaboya1


    Mary Lou doing her bit for the environment by re-using her 2002 election posters.


  • #1378
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,151 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    They should have presented the “Liar’s Cup” to whoever was deemed the winner.

    Awful choice of liar we have.


  • #1379
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,806 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    And the figures from that Galway West poll - certainly one left seat, and a strong likelihood of two, if accurate:

    https://twitter.com/NuachtTG4/status/1222235549416722432


  • #1380
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,936 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Grealish surely has more support than forecast there


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  • #1381
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,367 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    retalivity wrote: »
    Grealish surely has more support than forecast there

    These constituency polls have a big margin of error, so in reality about 8 or 9 candidates are in with a shot of getting a seat there.

    The only surprise is the Social Democrat figure. Is their candidate popular locally?


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