Well you seem to be happy with the very cheats you have. Each to their own mo chara.
You can’t handle the truth Bag, and as you imply ,from what I understand , that you don’t have a problem with welfare cheats, I’m not at all surprised.
So there's welfare cheats that bother you something awful. So stick with the status quo, because, welfare cheats.
Doesn't make a lick a sense. No sense at all mo chara.
You can point to SF policy on nobody having to work and free money?
Seems there's little stuffin' in your quilt there.
Middle Ireland have spoke. They won't wear more of the same. Indeed not.
Like your post, I’m afraid.
You are trying too hard, buddy.
Ah now, no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Eoin Ó Broin adding to the impression that the party is becoming a new Stickies vehicle.
It will end the same way, no long-term relevance bar to rarefied ideologues.
65 seats at a bare minimum?
If all the stars aligned and they outperformed even their best expectations they will get 65 seats but at the current polls, they are looking at closer to 55-60 seats. They will need other partners to bring them to the 80+ seats....
65 seats, I can't see it happening.
Didn't SF and Mary Loy welcome the reopening of pubs and the like?
Didn't she say that people wanted and deserve a meaningful Christmas?
If they're on 35%+ of FPV. FG won 76 seats in 2011 on the back of a 36% vote share.
SF won't be getting 76 seats. Even at the current poll numbers, SF top out at about 60 seats, leaving them 20+ seats short of a government.
There are many constituencies now where there is a rock-solid Indo or two holding the fort.
To get to 65 seats, SF will need one TD in all constituencies and two TD's in 27 constituencies. I just can't see that happening.
Sf are quite happy just to collect the wedge and oppose everything.Nice little earner.
Rattle a few sabres about a UI, find a few ‘commemorations’ to air out the white shirts and clear the spit from the bagpipes.
Responsibilities!!!
Nah mate , we’re fine here…..now jog on…..
Those numbers see the current Government re-elected. No change. Add a few independents and/or Labour for solidity.
Smaller parties are cannabilised by Sinn Fein in that projection.
This is the key point. At nearly every turn, the Sinn Fein position would have killed more people from the pandemic than the government one.
I'd see a SF/FF government as the most likely outcome from those numbers myself.
FF/FG/Greens combine for 80 seats in that projection. Adding Labour to get a majority government....I don't see it. Given that the Greens look likely to take a serious election hit after sitting in the kiddies seats in government and the damage done to Labour the last time they did so, FF/FG might have serious trouble persuading either, let alone both.
It must be noted that FG, despite all the brouhaha around Leo are looking positively Mark Twain-esque; "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated".
FG will probably go into the next general election as the only party absolutely ruling out going into government with SF. FF, if they were to go into government with a dominant SF would mean disaster for them but they might do it 'for the sake of the country'. Alternatively FF might agree to abstain on crucial votes and allow a SF + others type of minority government for a couple of years.
Are you absolutely confident FF would put FG back in rather than do a deal with SF?
No. That was a yarn people spun and gets repeated even though its known to be false. Also the issue with Christmas was the allowing of exceeding NPHET recommended levels of socialising.
Unless you were an unmarried mother or born to one or have cervical cancer or are left in a hospital corridor on a seat or trolley.
Not at all, with those numbers, I expect the next government to be a coalition of FF and SF under a new FF leader. The only question for a new FF leader would be whether they would accept rotating Taoiseach with FG or permanent deputy to Mary-Lou.
The point I am making is a different one. With all that they have had to cope with in terms of the pandemic, it is remarkable that the poll figures would still see this government re-elected if an election was held tomorrow. Sinn Fein have only made small inroads into the government vote, they have been better at cannabilising the rest of the opposition. That poll serves up more worries for the SDs, Labour and PBP than for the government.
What nonsense you spin.
Equating horrific acts of violence in that way is nauseating.
The Greens will go into government with anyone who will implement their policies. They also will benefit from an election campaign where real issues such as climate change come to the fore.
Natural causes with some social factors contributing, different to some SF-IRA kangaroo court ordering a shot to the back of the head and burial in a bog.
So the IRA weren't violent?
Maybe the IRA being before 2018 is too far back for you?
Certainly different. MLMD didn't shoot anyone, neither did MM.
MLMD didn't turn a blind eye to selling babies, neither did MM.
They are both associated with organisations one could argue played a part, historically.
But this is current affairs right?
A key point based on what you know are lies.
Who are you trying to fool here?
Pandemic was never going to be a major vote winner for SF, and I don't expect them to focus heavily on it in the GE campaign. IMO they have played it sensibly by not deviating too widely from NPHET recommendations and government policies. Whatever minor gains they might have made from 'getting it right' when the government was perceived not to would have been outweighed by the reputational damage from 'getting it wrong', especially if that was on the side of lifting restrictions.
The things is, most of the online warriors don't have a clue how offensive it is to victims of the PIRA to equate things in this matter. At least some of the SF public representatives are beginning to get on message, even if one has to doubt the sincerity of what they say.
Here is Eoin O'Broin bravely calling for Gerry Adams to apologise for his grossly offensive video. How anyone ever thought that this was something funny is unbelievable. Wonder if Eoin will get reigned in for going off-message, or will we see a barrage of tweets out there agreeing with him.
Yeah buddy, current affairs it is.
what have we got here ….we have Minister Donnelly working very hard to ramp up the booster programme, getting to inoculate huge numbers of people in an effort to ‘head off’ the worst threats from the virus.
Whats Mr Adams who,let’s be honest ,is a figurehead in Sf party organisation doing.
Churning out a video which was in such bad taste that even his own party members called for its removal.
If people can’t see the attitude and ideals of that party laid out in stark contrast to the hard work of of parties who are in charge……..then they are complete idiots .
We have to see through the cant and rhetoric of these people.
You ignored the victims of all sides protesting the British amnesty. You ignored the Miami Show band settlement regarding RUC collusion with the UDA. All because they don't suit your agenda.
So cut the pearl clutching show, its not going to win you an Emmy.
Cullinane struggling to justify Adams.
It was done for charity…………uhmmmm….. so you can say what you like so.!!,
What a load of bullsdust from Cullinane.
