FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

She is absolutely useless- has practically zero grasp of her brief. If others can outline a counter to that, her achievements and her vision I am all ears. Apart from launch into your own personal diatribe against me- I don’t see any of the above. Also the infantile lecture on taxation- taking what you want from a post and running with that.

yup, government formation is gonna be tricky for the foreseeable!

fg would be perfectly setup, if the hurlers fail, which is very likely, for the far right then, happy days!

SF will be bigger next time- maybe 50 seats or so? If and when FF and FG shrink even more then the obvious pressure will be on to form and indeed lead a government. Not sure FF will be too keen on going in despite the numbers possibly stacking up that way. Greens wil be gone so I’m guessing their support may go woke left and on some cases could drift back to FG too.

No I wouldn’t think so. Anyone in FF I speak to is weary of this government and also the disasterous C&S before it. The appetite for more is very low.There’s plenty in SF praying their mandate won’t be “too” big next as the single hefty responsibility for governance looks less appealing by the day. I hope they do as we will then see what SF are really made of.

On those poll figures it looks a possibility, but I would still have doubts. FF supporters were not happy about the C&S 2016 agreement, and along with Martin`s desire not to be the first FF leader not to be elected Taoiseach, feel they were pushed into a coalition with FG by SF in 2020. I get the feeling that they are feeling pushed around and the latest with this turf war is not improving their mood.

Their are some in FF who would have no problem with entering a coalition with SF, O`Cuiv notably, but even if he does run next time that would likely be his last so if it was going to cause dissidence in FF how strongly he would campaign for that is doubtful. Another problem would be that I imagine many of their supporters, and parliamentary party, fell that by coalescing with FG they have lost a lot of their identity so doing the same with SF would not help with that.

If those figures carried through and FG decide to sit the next one out, if FF do decide to explore the possibility then they would be more likely to play hardball and walk away, than being easily greased up.

It is a RedC poll. It methodology differs from othe polls that use random samples of the electorate. What RedC does is to take a sample from a panel of about 40K voters which it thinks represents the electorate. It has traditionally underestimated FF's % because older FF voters tend to prefer to respond better to a face to face poll. That means that B&A and Ipsos (Irish Times) tend to be closer to FF's support. Those %s look very bad for FFG. Wouldn't suprise me if there was a Fraggles (FF/FG/Greens/Labour) attempt to form a government on those % if they held for the next GE. After all, it would be difficult to find a bigger bunch of muppets. Another interesting thing is that the SocDems seem to be quite steady and may be eating into Labour's vote.

Regards...jmcc

It’s the most logical on the figures and ideology but I think the appetite within FF is very low for such a scenario

Clearly when you allow a population increase pretty much unchecked you’re going to struggle with housing, health, education all the services that migrants will demand as they rarely have private means to support themselves. Else they would not be coming here.

Woke lefty free love and open borders has indeed brought us to point you’re spot on there. Unfortunately there’s too many open hands depending on the state for everything so the whole sham becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. More of the same isn’t sustainable so hopefully we’ll see a move away from this kind of hard socialism in the coming years. With inflation now at records levels the days of “sure let’s print more money” are coming to an end.

Hard to get my head around most of the spending from last year in that article, but this one..

How the FCK can they tot up almost €300k for electronic subscriptions! 🤯

Irish Times is €708 per year for their complete package. The Economist is €325 per year. Thomson Reuters can cost up to around €3600 per year (multiply by 4 to cover all options).

Even if we added another 6 other subs from Thompson Reuters, 50 extra subs from Irish Times and The Economist and a hundred other publication subscriptions you would struggle to reach €100k for the year. That is nuts.

That’s the only thing governments and their quangos are good at- wasting others peoples money like it’s water

Stephen Donnelly always perplexed me, it always baffled me how he got the health job, actually how he got any ministerial job. Whilst I'm no fan of Paul Reid either, a new book is about to shed some light on Relations between Senior Health officials and Donnelly and if this article is anything to go by, it confirms much of what I certainly thought of Donnelly.

Pretty damming stuff..

Roll on a week of typically Dismissive Media interviews from Donnelly

He was always a run with the hares,bark with the hounds type if you look back at him.

Hailed by those who bitterly oppose him now in his early political career.

A typical politician really.

I believe they do know what to do about it but to do what they need to do would mean going against vested interests.