FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

All very curious on the day the media rehabilitation of Maitiú Ó Tuathail commenced. All very odd, the good doctor seems to be suggesting a colourful character and former best friend asked him to get the infamous documents and yet he was happy to oblige. You'd think Maitiú Ó Tuathail advisors would be recommending the less said, the better 🤔

I think there's a word to describe what he's suggesting in this whinge piece but of course I dare not mention the word.

Do you understand what 'private' means?

If you're a political anorak you're convinced it is, but all anoraks think that everyone else thinks like them! Most people would use news apps. The days of Facebook feeding people news are numbered. SM is just one method of communication used, there are many other ways. I'm not sure how long that might last for the big ones, in their present form, as I regularly meet people happily ditching it. Bear in mind too that an active user on SM is really just someone who is logged in.

I have a passing interest in it , as I do for other things, but not the general handbagging nonsense that passes for commentary. SM tends to melt down very easily, often without much provocation and most people really have little to say but can do a pile on very well. One can appreciate a reflective thought out post/thread even if you don't agree with it at all. Trying to trend for a few hours is juvenile numpty stuff.

Those who think that the MONC is a gimmie for the government must not be reading/hearing reports of Martin engaging in transactional politics with Independents.

I've been saying for a while if his intention is to step down before the next election, he needs to come clean about that round the time of the handover, ideally a bit before. Because if he is still insisting he carries on after the transition to tanaiste, his enemies in the party will conclude that he means what he says and will likely move against him sooner rather than later.

FFG Hiding from the week in politics, Pippa Hackett (G) sent out to bat 🙄

Seemingly the 2 suspended Green TD'S yet to be contacted about how they intend to vote in the MONC 🙄

They don't really know they want and haven't since they became public enemy number 1 after 2008 and they've drifted quite badly. Martin was about the only one who would go forward and the options otherwise for leader aren't great. Common sense clearly shows that an election now would work out worse for them. As others have said, seeing out the full term to 2025 if they can is the best option to possibly claim credit for an improvement in housing

They were on track to be the largest party in the last GE until Martin made a complete balls of things by wanting to be the best little FGer ever with his siding with Charlie Flanagan over the Black and Tans/RIC commemoration. You can see FG's support from December 2019 to January 2020 almost dropping off a cliff and it was also doing quite well in the polls in December 2019. The Housing and Health issues also damaged FF and FG but FF suffered most because of Martin and his supporters identification with FG rather than with FF core values. What's after happening now is that FF is fracturing into a pro-FG clique (the FFers with ministerial positions) and the FF backbenchers. The C&S agreement in 2016 basically sold FF's soul to FG for no ministerial positions or perks.

Regards...jmcc