When did the SDLP stop being a nationalist party blanch152?
Also, interestingly I witnessed many unionists on social media over the weekend claiming Alliance as a "unionist party" now because it suits them to try and boost numbers, yet they were claiming they were nationalist/republicans a short while ago because it suited them then too.
If you told the truth maybe you would start affecting those polling numbers you keep claiming will reach a ceiling or plummet.
Good to see you shied away from the -3 Alliance result. Has the much vaunted NI Identity reached it's ceiling or are 'lent' votes returning home?
So the unionist minority is now at 43% while the nationalist minority is at 25%.
SF certainly give the impression that they will fix Ireland, and some of the posters on here claim that a united Ireland will be a land of honey and milk with unicorns and rainbows where every problem will be solved and that we should stop worrying about the cost.
Yes indeed they did, but SF are the main beneficiaries from this poll, with (ok, assumedly) FF/FG posters trying to dismiss polls that see SF sit at the top of them, with "does anyone take polls seriously" remarks.
The answer is - obviously they do, you have articles about party's being worried about unfavorable polling results, and nearly all of them (certainly the big players) being caught up in the fake pollsters story's.
SF used the fake pollsters too, no?
Sinn Féin used fake pollsters less than two years ago despite denial - Independent.ie
Yes folks still give them credit.
Not to forget, both FF and FG had fake pollsters conducting polls that they obviously gave some credit to, or they wouldn't have bothered doing so.
Can't read the article, it's paywalled.
Looked at the back and forth on Twitter, and while it is a sacking, etc etc, not sure how it is different to how it is to other sackings or removal from parties. Where's the 'whiff of cordite'?
Getting rid of the likes of Anderson is a positive step for SF to be honest.
IMO Anderson was, politically, an empty shirt. Certainly any time she was on the TV for election commentary she was out of her depth. She had nothing going for her other than the fact that she did time.
Polls, polls, polls, do folks still give them any serious credit, giving how in my opinion, a lot of them can be engineered to one side or another. A nod to 'Yes Minister' the TV show.
Meh.....all the main parties here have this in their background,from.what i see anyway
I don’t think the whiff of cordite has any place in a ‘political’ party….but that’s just me, I guess.
How is being a waster to stand upto people carrying on like ffg?
I dont think,corruption cronism and arrogance has any place in public service....but thats just me,i guess
Not nice people.
We don’t want that lot at the levers of power down here.
Would be a complete disaster, wasters charter, in my opinion.
She was carrying on like ffg do down here as regards running stuff for her & friends
Sinn fein are dead in derry for likely half a generation and need to build trust back among community and start from ground up (as it should be)
,days after lyra mckee got killed,a dissident still got elected,should sent alarm bells ringing....someone has to grasp the nettle of reform at some stage.....she has plenty to offer on ground canvassing/directing elections locally imo
Whats this stuff all about.
Do we want people like this running our country?
Sinn Fein holding steady in the north on 25% of the vote, with neither the SDLP or the Alliance able to make inroads.
Alliance falling 3% must be a slap in the face for the new/third identity believers.
SF 25% (no change)
UUP 16% (+2)
TUV 14% (+3)
DUP 13% (-3 from May)
Alliance 13% (-3)
SDLP 13% (+1)
TBH in the interests of the island it's good to see the pro GFA/Protocol vote not fracturing.
One unded an eeeeeighty
Hmmmmm …… folk seem to be getting a bit rattled.
Lot of anger……… not good.
They are indeed lies when you and others falsely try pass them off as statements. You need to start using language like 'in my opinion' 😎
Nobody has said any of the FF/FG problems will be easy to solve.
FF/FG blamed the public when Ireland was worse in the world.
No, the British. There's a whole thing about it. People trying to say SF are responsible for what goes on up there are either liars or not informed at all. They play a part, sure.
It's a lie we hear time and again. 'Utopia' and the like. FF/FG are so bad people just want a government party working in the right direction ffs.
You'll get accused of whataboutery but it is a legitimate question about the level of hypocrisy. The people who made the decisions here that resulted in similar figures are still in office. Are they deemed incompetent's and unfit to be in government?
Not expecting anyone to answer that tbh.
That's just your 'opinion' ain't it?
Sensationally posting it as anything that is being said on these forums is a lie in my opinion. Nobody I am aware of is saying SF have a magic bullet or will make everyone happy or will fix Ireland.
Franci, they are opinions, not lies.
I hate that term which sprung up in the realms of the Alphabet parties around the time of the water protests.
Those opinions are perfectly valid in my opinion, in fact , I see a lot of validity in them.
hang on , didnt ireland have the highest level of covid infections in the entire world for a while also ? if they are incompetent up there , and as the irish stage also had the same " record " , are you admitting that the irish govt in the 26 counties are also incompetent ?
i dont get what point your trying to make with that post ? are you suggesting that north and south are now united in all but name ? doesnt seem the most intelligent thing to be pointing towards and taking glee in it , but the point seems to be " ha ha they are also guilty of having the highest numbers if covid infections in the world in the north , same as we had in the south months before them " ?
Do you address every post?
Peculiar accusation tbh.
What specifically did 'they' do that was incompetent Mark?
They are a part of a mandatory coalition and are responsible as a part of that for how things are. But to decide if they have the competence to be in power here, we have to know what it was they specifically did.
If you don't know then I think the onus is on you to find out.
OK, but you ignored his post when he said explicitly that Ireland was a failed state. Your silence was kinda approval of this statement.
Do you agree with that statement?
OK, so SF ARE responsible for the rising covid cases and numbers, which are some of the worst in the world and the state of the Health system. You agree with that.
So, the next question is. What are they doing to fix it and why should we remotely trust them here in the Republic with power when we see in the North that are incompetent.
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