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BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You can’t rule by committee.

    that’s why nothing ever gets done, because no party has the political capital to do anything worthwhile, so they just concentrate on trying to get re-elected.

    as I said earlier, PR-STV is why every single government function is broken.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,719 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    They're supposed to govern. Not rule.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,651 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    How well is that UK government doing? Because, compared to its pr-stv compatriots, it's the worst, at least economically, socially and perceived foreign policy.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    What compatriots that use PR-STV are you talking about?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,651 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,947 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    People know exactly what they are voting for, this constant refrain from whats effectively a fascist mindset of either I get everything or nothing from voting is just intentionally ignorant now. I voted for FG knowing they wouldnt go into coalition with SF, I didnt vote for FF cus I knew if they had to they would go into coalition with SF, AND iof FG had gone back on their promise i would never have voted for them again. Its not fvcking complicated but you seem to not really be able to understand it. Did you fall asleep in CSPE or something?

    Compromise is whats required for a good government. Swinging wildly from left to right constantly makes for a mess of legislation and rules that are constantly being passed and then repealed when the other side arrives to clean up what is in their mind a mess left by the previous government like exactly what happens in the US every 4 years. Having coalitions means that there has to be consensus so things that are passed and done are less likely to be swept aside and a whole new thing is started every election cycle.

    Also your still ignoring, intentionally at this stage, that even if FPtP gives that one party you know what your voting for idea, its still a minority who voted for it to happen which is entirely undemocratic, but going back to your fascist dog whistles your probably okay with that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    This whole idea that FptP somehow gives people better knowledge of what they will get from a government is nonesense.

    Do you think people voted in 2019 to have the NIP and Trade Agreement ditched?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,947 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Exactly didn't they vote for the exact opposite that was called an "oven ready deal"?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Irelend is the only european one to use PR-STV as far as I know.

    Ireland, where every single government function is broken, thanks to PR-STV.

    everyday, hundreds if not thousands of people have to boil their water, because Irish Water is unable to provide them with clean safe drinking water. This is in a country that likes to tell everyone how rich it is.

    On top of this, thousands of tonnes of raw sewage are dumped every single day into rivers and the sea, because Irish water is unable to treat it properly. This isn't a one off, this is the norm as there is no alternative.

    The simple fix was to have Irish water set up as a private company that drew most of its revenue from its customers, so it could then borrow the billions needed to bring the Irish water system out of the 19th century, but no, in a fit of popularism, FF came out against water rates, even though we desperately need them.

    So, we have a Victorian water system that is fundementally broken and no way of addressing it, without the government borrowing the money needed, which it can't do because the national debt is already over that which Euro rules allow.

    You couldn't make it up.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    People didn't vote for the deal, they voted to get Brexit done, as opposed to more and more procrastination which is what Labour were offering.

    But of course, you know that already.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    voting for a party with a clear manifesto and expecting that party to deliver on it is a fascist mindset?

    PR-STV is why the HSE has seen no major investment in the past thirty years, despite the three men who are responsible for healthcare earning the guts of €1 million between them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    We get it you think Ireland is shte.

    Irish water pipes have fk all to do with Boris Johnson though.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    We were discussing the voting systems, were we not?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭PommieBast


    Of course it was a pack of lies and to me it was plainly obvious at the time, but I am talking about the effectiveness of the two campaign messages back then. It was the 3rd GE within 4 years and Labour's position in comparison was as clear as mud.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 G0ldp001


    Recent reserach in the human sciences namely "how we develop fairness" shows, growing numner of medium intelligence people who think they are clearver than others eventinlly have financial grip over intelligent population! what it means is 'As long as agerage british citizen don;t have to pay econamic burden, no matter what is fair or unfair, nothing really happens'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,947 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Literally every major party in the dail signed up to slaintecare and are agreed on its implementation so thats absolute sh1te and as usual you have no clue what your talking about.

    I call it a fascist mindset someone who thinks minority rule is okay and cannot comprehend the concept of majority compromise government, its also a dog whistle of modern right wing fascism to be all or nothing in politics as you seem to be, so either everything you think should be done happens or nothing should happen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,651 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    "every single government function is broken." Have a word with yourself. Sure, the water system wasn't handled the way you would've liked. That's tough. However, water is continuing to be delivered and it's still free. FWIW I believe there should be a charge for water, because it's not free. Ireland's economy is one of the most vigorous in the EU. Comparatively speaking, just on basis of GDP, the UK is only doing worse than Russia, and Russia's got extenuating circumstances.

    If you want to see a place where the majority of government function is broken, look across the Irish sea to the one run by your beloved Tories for the last 12+ years. Crumbling economy, bare shelves in the grocery story, 6 years on after a slight majority referendum - now isn't that a great way to run a government - and still working on what they want Brexit to mean. Heck, even the "Minister for Brexit efficiencies" has no idea and had to poll Express readers for their suggestions. I ask you, why wasn't that a general poll? One suggestion that made the cut is apparently to reduce the amount of electrical safety testing that goes on. They didn't need to leave the EU for that.

    UK politics and HMG are a seriously badly run ship. How many billions were spent and unaccounted for, with track and trace?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    The deal was the way to get Brexit done! Are you really trying to suggest, or worse still do you actually believe, that people voted to get Brexit done, with Johnson lauding this Oven ready deal, but that they didn't actually think the deal would be part of it?

    More procrastination. OK lets that that view then. Johnson said, 'Oven ready deal, vote for me and get Brexit done without any further delay. The terrible LP said it needs more negotiation and a review of the deal and the options. The public, in their wisdom and knowing what they were voting for, gave Johnson and overwhelming majority on the back of those positions. Since then, Johnson has procrastinated on implementing checks, and is now of the view that the deal is the worst deal ever and couldn't possibly work.

    So even taking you confused line that people didn't see the deal as part of Getting Brexit done, clearly they wanted Brexit done which Johnson has singularly failed to do to the satisfaction of anybody including himself and the government.

    You are stretching credibility to breaking point with that made up nonsense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    LP position was reality. They put forward the position that Brexit wasn't going to work, and further review and talks were needed. The Tories opted to lie and say that everything was simple, just sign the deal and everything works out.

    I can see why people opted for that, but it turns out that both parties were as clear as mud. LP made the mistake of actually telling the truth.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,876 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    That really is some chip on your shoulder. If you don't like the current setup then you have three choices - i) stay quiet and accept it ii) emigrate or iii) stand for election where you make the difference - what do you plan on doing?

    As for boil water notices, what is the water quality like in say France where most still buy bottled water? As for the water and sewerage systems themselves, I do recall our government trying to implement a campaign whereby the public would have to pay for usage and this money would help fund the vast amount of upgrades required (many of which have since been done). However, this was opposed by selfish populist pretend socialism - you couldn't make it up.

    As for the HSE & investment, remind me again how much was spent on say tackling Covid? How much has been invested in the NCH? If I look at a government publication (found from a very quick search): https://assets.gov.ie/180719/1aa7c75f-03c2-4a0e-ae48-bea10a0b58e9.pdf, I see that spending increased between 2007 and 2018. I presume there are more recent figures but I haven't looked.

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    So, I'm inclined to think your anti-Irish government claims are purely to further an agenda you hold - what is it?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Don't bother it's just an off topic rabbit hole to distract from the disarray the Tories are currently in



  • Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I won't share a link but Priti Patel has told Conservative party plotters not to politicise the jubilee by sending in no confidence letters.

    She did this by speaking to the Daily Mail...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Yep and she is the very one using the jubilee as a political tool.

    These guys are ejust getting hit with the same old tackle the man not the ball shte like the Corbyn won't wear a poppy sideshow.




  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    oh my god, do you mean that Brexit hasn't been done?

    it was all a massive lie and the UK has not actually left the EU?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    water isn't being delivered the way I want it?

    Ireland isn't delivering on EU waste water commitments it was supposed to adhere to 15 years ago.

    Just as with abortion, Irish exceptionalism has meant Ireland is failing on yet another metric. But hey, Apple are making a **** tonne of money so it artificially makes the economy look good so we can give senior public officials another pay raise.

    368 people spent the night on hospital trolleys last night, but I guess that's just me not getting the healthcare system I want. Jesus, the government owns a health insurance company so people can pay for their own healthcare, what bigger indication of a failed healthcare system is there?

    The Irish Navy can't protect our waters, because it doesn't have enough ships and it can't spare any crew to pick up the two new ones it has bought, but even if it did, they can't be fed because there are no chefs.

    But I guess that's just me not getting the military I want.

    Generations of youngsters are growing up with their main role models being criminals and drug dealers, thanks to police force that is so under resourced, these kids have no fear whatsoever of the Gards and if they were to be arrested, the criminal justice system is so over loaded thanks to years of under investment, a custodial sentence is never going to happen, so they can roam around and terrorise Dublin as much as they like.

    But I guess that's just me not getting the law and order system I want and lets face it, nothing says economic success more than dozens of kids queueing up outside Canada Goose to buy their new €500 jackets, paid for with cash, of course.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    no one will make a difference, because the system is set up so that no one can make a difference. As much as I hate to say it, this country really really needs a Sinn Fein government to give it the good kick up the arse it needs.

    It seems we agree on water, it was a fit of popularism by a political party desperate to have some credibility that blocked it.

    what does spending on Healthcare show us? thanks to the usual procrastination and dithering, which is a sympton of PR-STV, the NCH is going to cost €2Bn, which is what, four or five times over budget? Successive weak governments have meant that rather than driving through the change required, everything is debated, the public are consulted, a public enquiry is held and no decision is made. All of which is done with the sole objective of lining the pockets of the people who actually do run this country, the senior public sector employees.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Mono, are you suggesting that it is the fault of the voting system for the list above? You think that a FptP system would result in none of it?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    A simple change in the voting system wouldn't solve all of it, of course not. What it would allow, is for a government to have enough political capital to make unpopular decisions, such as with water rates. As it is, there are too many self interests groups that have too loud a voice and therefore too big a say in how the country is run and this ends up with the government of the day just taking the line of least resistance until the next election.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,651 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    And yet and yet... it's your sunlit UK uplands that have FpTP and the countries swirling the drain. While Ireland continues to grow, while there are tonnes of opportunities in the EU or here for young Irish people. All of which has been pulled out from under them by HMG in the UK.

    Unpopular decisions happen even in pr-stv governments. Austerity? Debt to be paid by the taxpayer for Irish banks? You think if we had fptp the taxpayers wouldn't be bailing out the banks? It'd be worse.


    The two most successful FpTP systems, the US and the UK, have enormous problems all due to the nature of their electoral systems. Do you think gun control would be an issue in the US if it had something like pr-stv?



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    its funny how people consider the UK to be undemocratic, but then try and claim the result of a referendum should not be respected. Parliament voted in favour of holding the referendum and parliament voted in favour of respecting the result of that referendum and leaving the EU. This is not something done in isolation by HMG.

    As much as you may like to think it, the UK is not swirling the drain but has a lot of problems to resolve just like any country. You drew the comparison to Ireland though, claiming it was somehow an economic, social and societal success, which I have pointed out is not the case and this is due, in a large part, to the electoral system, used here.



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