Fann Linn wrote: » MM said it would never happen. Nothing to do with MLM.
Shefwedfan wrote: » MM said he would not rule it out, that was around 11th based on news reports Mary Lou had a call with FF around 14th, thats the one she went out shouting and roaring to RTE after it.....she knew exactly what she was doing After that FF and everyone said not a hope, of course the SF propaganda boyos will come in now with all sorts of tin foil hat points of view.....everyone knows its BS
Updated Feb 3rd 2020, 1:52 PM FIANNA FÁIL LEADER Micheál Martin has again ruled out a coalition with Sinn Féin after the general election, adding that the election is about issues and not opinion polls. Martin was speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland in Kerry and said his party is “united” behind the position of ruling out Sinn Féin as a coalition partner. “The Fianna Fáil party will not be going to government with Sinn Féin, it’s not just about the past, I’ve laid of my stall on that but it’s also about the future as well,” Martin said
Deleted User wrote: » If your going to lie....at least make it realistsic 3rd feb,well before election martin ruled out coalition with SF......god love you,your really not good at this propaganda thing, :pac:
Fann Linn wrote: » I distinctly remember him saying in the debates that he'd have nowt to do with the Shinners. Tbh can't really be arsed now, him, Leo and ER should just get on with it now and let's see how it all pans out.
Shefwedfan wrote: » That was prior to the election. He also said prior to the election he wouldnt go in with FG No party will say prior to election they plan to go into coalition with another, thats just telling the voter you dont expect to win and doesn't show confidence in your party or their agenda Standard politics!! not really that hard to work out to be honest.....have a look around.....or bury your head
Deleted User wrote: » If iirc fg and labour once released what was effectively a joint manifesto (2011 or 2015,not sure) Mate your claiming black is white saying he would go in with SF,when ive shown yous he said exact opposite?? Like if your going to lie,at least dont make it so easy to disprove :pac: Jesus that was embarassingly bad
Shefwedfan wrote: » Not your mate, and yes you are embrassing yourself yet again, I would ask for a source but of course we know you can make any BS up and then hide behind "the charter doesnt say I have to" :p:p As I said look around, google is your friend. Plenty of discussion, just remember to check after the election......
Shefwedfan wrote: » That was prior to the election. He also said prior to the election he wouldnt go in with FG
maccored wrote: » Spot on - he's a lying ****e. That makes him more credible how?
[Deleted User] wrote: » Not at all,but i obey rules (be also well below my nitrate limits too) Land saturated this year and i could hear lads out in middle of night spreading slurry weeks before opening date If you spread slurry,the night before 35mm of rain forecast onto already saturated land,you dont have to be member of mensa to know where its going to end up??
tikkahunter wrote: » Why are you twisting what i said to have an attack on FG, I am saying the younger voters that voted for SF have no idea what went on and still goes on in that party.
[Deleted User] wrote: » Great to see Marylou got her roots done.
tikkahunter wrote: » You just bet me to that FG/FF Spin - 1 shots Vote for change - 2 shots
Shefwedfan wrote: » The laughable part is people still blaming a political party for their own stupidity. Its always someone elses fault
hatrickpatrick wrote: » And they don't care. They urgently need the cost of living to come down before their entire lives are wasted trying to stay afloat and not being able to build a life for themselves, and they need that to be addressed now, not in a decade or two, or whatever the timeline for "the market will fix everything on its own" BS is these days. It still amazes me how people don't seem to get this. The cost of living is destroying peoples' lives and young people who are primarily in the rental sector for housing have been hit orders of magnitude harder than everyone else (who are being hit hard enough as it is!) - Fine Gael don't give a bollocks about those people, so why should those people vote for Fine Gael? Honestly, I just don't get it. In what political theory or model does "Directly pursue policies which severely harm a particular demographic" logically lead into "expect that demographic to vote for you when you've done absolutely nothing for them and indeed have actively done things which have hurt them immeasurably"? EDIT: Here's a quote from journalist Glenn Greenwald (the man who broke the Snowden story a few years back) on Brexit and Trump, entirely relevant to the rise of SF here. Everything he's saying is exactly why young Irish voters have abandoned FFG.One of the things that is bothering me and bothered me about the Brexit debate, and is bothering me a huge about the Trump debate, is that there is zero elite reckoning with their own responsibility in creating the situation that led to both Brexit and Trump and then the broader collapse of elite authority. The reason why Brexit resonated and Trump resonated isn’t that people are too stupid to understand the arguments. The reason they resonated is that people have been so f*cked by the prevailing order in such deep and fundamental and enduring ways that they can't imagine that anything is worse than preservation of the status quo. You have this huge portion of the populace in both the U.K. and the U.S. that is so angry and so helpless that they view exploding things without any idea of what the resulting debris is going to be to be preferable to having things continue, and the people they view as having done this to them to continue in power. That is a really serious and dangerous and not completely invalid perception that a lot of people who spend their days scorning Trump and his supporters or Brexit played a great deal in creating.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Yeah because SF are doing such a stand up job at solving all the problems on the other side of the border. You're deluded if you think they have some kind of magic formula to solve all the issues facing this country, they were foaming at the mouth to get their hands on power last Feb but are probably delighted now that we are in recession and they won't have to make any hard decisions over the next few years. We've seen more of that spoofer O Reilly over the last few days bitching and giving out from the sidelines than we did in the last month and a half when this virus took hold because that is all she is good for, she had no solution to offer at the start of all this.
Edgware wrote: » As soon as Covid19 hit all election promises went out the window, all pre election promises about not negotiating with this or that group went out the window. All the parties know that and now we have an opportunity to start afresh. Certain levels in FF want nothing to do with SF and vice versa. Then the same could be said about the relationship between a lot of the other groupings. I feel that when push comes to shove FF would be acceptable to most of the others than FG. If FF FG and the Greens cant agree a programme then Martin will have no choice to talk S.F. "in the national interest, difficult times, uncharted waters bull **** bull ****, avoid an election etc" Likewise McDonald will state the same " country wants change, FG Thatchetite austerity etc" Throw in Soc Dems and/or the Rural Alliance. No hassle about introducing Green Party policies etc. This game could run for a while yet.
Randy Archer wrote: » Cosgrave’s FG and Cornish Labour ,explicitly joined forces ,an election pact in the early 1970s . Yep 2011 was a cosy little deal, Pat Rabbitte was wasn’t leader of labour by then was often seen as FG lite
McMurphy wrote: » Pat wasn't the leader of labour ever, are you mixing him up with Gilmore?
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Actually he was, he was elected Labour leader in 2002
all about the mane wrote: » Imagine a party that voted on who the leader will be.
McMurphy wrote: » It's a brief respite from the "fish wife" bolloxology though.
McMurphy wrote: » Yawn, are you going to just blindly repeat the same shyte over and over again, no matter how many times you are called out? It's a brief respite from the "fish wife" bolloxology though.
Randy Archer wrote: » Shinners wouldn’t be too bad for some in FF ,to the centrist and centre left elements of the party (There are a few )but the some key reasons why FF would be reluctant is that (A) to them, SF policy is more headbanger stuff , even if FF themselves are a populist party be hard for FF to put a muzzle on sf leaders and especially their supporters, some of whom behave like utter knackers at polling station during elections C) SF definitely are digging into the same voting pool that FF attract, especially the youth. Have little time for SF but they have done well to attract the younger members , just SF are always likely to self explode as they lost many members hand over fist during 2012-2019 Everyone knows, don’t ask what a political party would do for you, ask what you would do for the political party Either way, it would hard to stomach the treachery of officially joining forces with Fine Gael. It would surpass the treachery of joining forces with the PD’s. The greats of De Valera, Lemass ,Haughey (cough) must be spinning in their grave ,god rest their soul. Martin Ought to be taken to mBeal na Blath and shot . Not to for the first time, a Cork man or woman acts the Judas or shows weakness:rolleyes: