FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

Does he realise that there's a war in the Ukraine and sanctions have caused massive increases in fuel prices. As an overpaid politician, that may not affect him but it is a very real problem for the electorate including those who voted FFG.

Regards...jmcc

My Turf Stove is 90% efficient retains heat for hours, Central heating takes an hour to heat up and a few minutes to loose its affect when switched off.

Can't beat the Turf for Heat and Stove to retain the heat, can't wait for October 🔥🔥🔥

Emissions from open fires are far more deadly to people than from Home Heating Oil.

I fully expect that the same politicians who are objecting to banning the sale of turf will be the first in twenty years to call for compensation for families who lost loved ones because the sale of turf wasn't banned.

Perhaps that's the reason why so many good republicans are up in arms about this?

Once things move towards an "Us" (the electorate) and "Them" (the FFG politicians and their cronies) situation, it will be game over for FFG. It might have been the rising prices and inflation that caused the downfall of the FFG govermnet but it is looking like the mica and turf issues could be the triggers. It is no good when virtue signalling fools like Ryan waffle about "saving the planet" while people starve and freeze.

Regards...jmcc

Everything in this country and indeed this thread is reactionary.

There is little long-term thinking by those giving out about everything.

We decry other countries like the US or Australia when there is a fossil fuel lobby yet here in Ireland there is a a reactionary populist rump that spout the same stuff, egged on by the opposition and their cheerleaders online.

Listen to yourself

"War on turf"

How about just say we should keep burning fossil fuels and carbon-based fuels. How about you say "War on fossil fuels", or "War on coal"?

Lobby your local TD with those tidbits JMCC

Climate Change Denial is in full force here folks.

And SF cannot bring about another MoC after the budget....

Shooting themselves in the foot.

It's not I who thinks helping Ukraine is 'virtue-signalling'.

ndeed the dog whistles and gaslighting about Ukrainian refugees here, online and by opposition politicians is a thundering disgrace.

So it looks like the turf issue is going to keep causing problems for FFG. I wonder will it be discussed over FFG barbacues as they contemplate the losses of rural FFG seats? Whatever happened to Ryan's last great idea to reintroduce wolves to Ireland? The laughable thing is that FF/FG now have to defend a Green policy that is causing political climate change and swamping FF/FG TDs in a rising tide of SF votes. This is really making Charlie Flanagan's plan to commemorate the Black and Tans/RIC sound like a fart in a hurricane. And there's still the mica issue and a potential mica redress party.

Regards...jmcc

I remember you spouted this anti-science and anti-climate stuff before on another thread. You were taken to the cleaners then.

Alas, here you are spouting the same stuff again without having learned your lesson.

Central heating by oil doesn't take hours to heat up. That is just plain factual nonsense and rubbish.

Truf is one of the worst forms of fuel used to heat your home.

No one should be taking posting ettiqute lessons from you BB.

Agreed for the medium to long term, but there’s a real question about what happens this winter. If its a cold one (we’re probably due a cold snap) and there’s no gas there will be severe pressure to use whatever other fuel sources are available. Turf is a bit of a red-herring on a national scale but there could be a push to use coal as an emergency measure

Honestly fascinates me how some don't actually get politics or understand how it works in Ireland , particularly certain issues that may on the surface seem irrelevant or Trivial to them or the country as a whole. Look at the Mica crisis, I don't honestly know how many impacted but I'd say safe to say its a rural and quite localised issue and yet look how its impacted on this government.

Turf may seem a trivial thing, perhaps if I was living in Dublin or another urban location, I'd not fully understand how important it is to Rural folk.

I've learned something over 20 years living in Rural Ireland and that is this ,

All politics is Local and never more so than now. Rural based Government TD'S are suddenly realising this. I'm actually not a fan of Parish pump politics if I'm being totally honest, but on this issue I'm impacted and will fight tooth a nail on the issue and make absolutely no apologies.

No reasonable person dispute pollution Data but I'm afraid when folks have two immediate options, worry about the environment or Freeze for the winter, the choice is quite frankly not that difficult.

This aside from those who'll struggle to afford to heat their homes this winter.