FG to just do nothing for the next 5 years.

BarryD2 wrote: »

Dunno - I haven't voted FF ever and a No1 for FG just once, 30 years ago.

But I would strongly consider a No1 if that direction if there was another election soon. No fan of them but if the alternative is SF, not much choice.

They are gonna need a few of you.

Had FG switched tack and done something different after the election (like not take a remarkable and unprecedented huff) I might change my view. But they have doubled down on the strategy.

I, of course could be wrong, but I am not sensing any improvement for them.

McMurphy wrote: »

That's the point - unless FFG merge one of them is most likely facing a wipeout, there's simply not enough between them policy wise for them both to exist separately in their current forms.

They'll keep splitting the votes for people who aren't voting SF.

But there is enough voters for the alphabet soup of left parties that are currently out there?

I wouldn't write any obituaries until we see how SF perform in government, it could be the first and last time we see them in charge.

Until that point it is likely we'll start seeing a lot more of Vote non-SF, transfer non-SF...

Idbatterim wrote: »

a merger, loses another third , possibly more, of what they currently have jointly. They might not like it, but they might just have to accept, that they are going to be joined at the hip. And they could even try the mad notion, of addressing the problems here over the next few years and winning over half the seats between them for the next government term...

Your last sentence sums it up. Address the problems and they'll get the vote back, mine included.
But dont expect me to change my vote for them now if another election is called. They've still to prove themselves.

Fann Linn wrote: »

Your last sentence sums it up. Address the problems and they'll get the vote back, mine included.
But dont expect me to change my vote for them now if another election is called. They've still to prove themselves.

look, other posters have summed this up. There are just some blinkered FFG fan bois here. Their performance has been entirely unacceptable to many of us, we dont think there is some great saviour. But perhaps the only way to get some way effective governance here, is to give FFG the serious rattle, that they have been. There was no other tool left...

We already have economic mismanagement with FFG! People arent scare of their propeganda and rightfully so

cryptocurrency wrote: »

FG want to blame others for Brexit and the coming recession. We all know what they are trying to do.

So who's fault is Brexit?

FG???

Mortelaro wrote: »

Reality is FG won the popular vote in Wicklow
A rather shakey stat as evidence Simon's seat is in jeopardy
You guys really are high on the protest vote arent ye
Fickle it is,I tells ye
Fickle
Have a plan b,c and d,I'd advise
Or none at all if you think the country will go communist

3 runners and by just over 1000 (and you're the one using the word fickle). I wouldn't be singing their praises too much.
Do you think if Timmins and Doyle didn't run that Harris would have got over 18,000 votes? Not a chance.
How he got in at all must be something the Wicklow voters have asked themelves.

Mortelaro wrote: »

I'd imagine like the rest of the country if Sf ran at least 2 candidates per constituency they wouldn't have topped the poll in many but theyd have had more seats at the expense of other far left parties mainly
Theyd be faced with the same issue though in the Dail
Far left numbers being too small

If fg just ran 2 in t Wicklow in that scenario, Simon would top yes I'd imagine

You must be hoping time will stand still.

The poll last week saw SF at 35% and FF FG had fallen into the teens. That means further seat losses for FF FG.

Mortelaro wrote: »

Rofl
Go and smoke some more protest vote pipe will ya
I'm all for whatever makes people happy:D

There isnt an ice cubes chance in hell that theres a 35% far left vote in Ireland today
Never mind after 5 years of problem solving
Dream on

There was the same sort of reaction here when SF polled 25% in a poll. They finished on 24.5%.

Leo Varadkar has claimed Sinn Féin’s planned rallies are part of a “campaign of intimidation and bullying”. The Taoiseach said he believed the decision by the party to hold events around the country was “an unwelcome development”

https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/sinn-fein-rallies-part-of-campaign-of-intimidation-says-varadkar-a042c4f7

Leo clearly does not want another election

smurgen wrote: »

Of course not. It's clear he wants to keep the electorate at a distance from himself and his ministers.they see engaging the electorate as beneath them.they absolutely got their arses handed to them when they went out in public during the election.they've also done nothing to endear themselves to the electorate since the election.

The absolute arrogance to hide two key ministers from account during the campaign. I wonder how anyone rationalised voting for Harris and Murphy, when they treated their electorate with such disdain.
Harris can't be kept off the media since the election.

smurgen wrote: »

Any word from Alan Shatter on this?
Would remind ya of Fine Gael removing homeless people with mechanical diggers so it would .

https://news.sky.com/story/israeli-minister-defends-bulldozer-being-used-to-scoop-palestinian-mans-body-11942039

Anti-semtic remark is anti-semtic....

But not surprising.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

I expect FG's vote to fall even further in another election.
.

Not a chance of it dropping. Apart from the fact that the electorate feels now it has punished FG for being in government, SF had been exposed as having worse TDs than Maria Bailey.

SF have, in a few short days, a charity cheater, an anti semitist and a traditional "Up the RA" man (we thought they'd gone away).

Their policies, now being seen as a possibility of actually happening in government, have been opened up to proper scrutiny and ridicule.

A lot of people wanted to give the government a bloody nose , and they did. But they didn't realise that so many wanted to do the same. It's one thing to do that, but another to think of the possibility of a SF minister for justice...

All FG or FF have to do is come up with a credible and realistic plan to deal with housing and SF will be shown up as snake oil salesman.