blanch152 wrote: » If the cliff is far enough away, and the person left in the car doesn't have a clue about driving, then they will probably escape the blame.
Necro wrote: » A surplus in the budget for the first time in over a decade maybe? I dunno, seems pretty fine to me.
Matt Barrett wrote: » Yet they couldn't avoid record breaking numbers of homeless children......sad.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » If only things were so simple.
Tacitus Kilgore wrote: » I don't disagree with the above, and I also have respect for your opinion and the opinion of that of the electorate! Only reason I was posting in here was to call out lies.
Idbatterim wrote: » Fg said things take time, they had nine years, so why arent thy rooting to form government now again, to implement everything, that they had set the ball rolling on? :rolleyes:
average_runner wrote: » Because they are only the 3rd biggest party. Now we will see what SF are made of? Carbon tax increase in the next budget is the first thing anyhow
satguy wrote: » When FG were in power, they just looked after a very small bunch of their very very rich buddies. Would they want to be allowed to keep this up, (like a red line for them), for them to go into a coalition ? Dinny might be given the state contract to retrofit insulation in our old housing stock. Dinny might be given the state contract to to service all those water meters he installed back in the good old days. Dinny might be given the state contract to set up a 5G phone network, like the one he got for esat back in the good old days. Dinny might be given the state contract to lay down our new fiber optic cable network, he already got a €147 tax wright off to buy SiteServ. All the above could be FG's red lines ?? Oh,, and we will need to retrofit smart electric meters to every home in the country,, Now who might do that for us ??
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Are the civil service complicit in these shady dealings?
Yurt! wrote: » Then accept your role as second fiddle to a larger party and get involved in trying to form a government for the good of the country instead of sulking in the corner declaring yourselves leaders of the opposition. If we end up going back to the polls, FG will be the party most at fault, and the people won't thank them for it one bit. They spent most of the election making a song and dance about who they won't work with, then when they didn't get the numbers they wanted, they're upset at the prospect being a junior party so they start walking off the pitch. *for clarity, FG involved in any sort of coalition is my least favourite option
Jinglejangle69 wrote: » Aren't they doing what SF do and keeping their promise to their voters not to go onto power with SF? Like SF and the absenteeism from Westminster stance?
Edgware wrote: » Ah but that's different. Absenteeism suits the Shinners as long as the cheques from Her Majesty's Government keep rolling in
satguy wrote: » It seems FG will be very happy to just sit on their hands for 5 years. Would FG voters be happy with this, as it means all those FG votes mean nothing, and do nothing. Having been in power for 9 years, they did nothing, people have no homes, people still on trollies. FG may have given some of their rich buddies some tax breaks. But other than that, they did what FG do best, are their poor hands not numb by now.
satguy wrote: » Labour to bow out of the left alliance, but still hope to get the pension age up to 68, but only for poor people. Brendan Howlin just wants to sit next to Leo for a few years, more hand sitting, more votes wasted.
PMBC wrote: » I did read that share prices fell and the market lost total value. I'm not financially savvy enough to check if it regained those losses. However I also read that IBEC and Irish Bankers (as in Banking Payments Federation) think tht SF in power would not be a problem. That would seem to be counter to the general tenor of the posters who think that SF will leave the country as a financial basket-case.
Edgware wrote: » It's not as if S.F.friends would be running in to the banks with sawn offs and wearing balaclavas
take everything wrote: » Is Leo not just playing the long game here. He's a very canny political operator (see how he handled Coventry in his bid for the leadership). Could it be he's thinking wait for a year for SF to **** things up and back in again.
Blazer wrote: » Hang on a sec. FG and FF stated beforehand that they would not go into government with SF and their TDS were elected with that mandate.Now you want them to ignore that and work with SF for the good of the country?? Remind me again how many elected SF members took up their seats in Westminster for the good of NI when Brexit was in progress? NONE.... so SF can shut the hell up, and either create a government with the their parties that are compatible with their views or face facts that they’re talking ****e.
