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Remember next time you tell us about what trending on politics, 213 👍
Still waiting on you to back up those numbers...
I've never meant or said trending in politics, I referred to Ireland Trending to which Leo and other politicians occasionally appear so again back and check my posts and check again who's trending in Ireland (Gosh a politician) Well I never 😳 BA
As posted on the thread you created about the topic, and on the other thread when you brought this up. Yes you can buy an apartment in Dublin if you want, not just me but loads of other people gave you advice at the time on the thread.
I made it all clear in post. Not sure why you want me to repeat it multiple times. 👍️
You have multiple times on this thread mentioned about different things "trending" on twitter as if that makes them really important. I just reviewed what is behind the numbers. So as I said 213 actual people
If I was able to save 30,000 I could go in at the lowest bid on an apartment in the outer parts of county Dublin.
Tut Tut BA why are you back tracking on previous posts again, why not deal with your bizzare post about Leo Trolling, which I've responded to reasonably, your deflecting yet again.
Why mine or others general comments about what's trending offends you I don't know, it's a common enough term.
Anyway if you want to avoid your Faux Pas re Leo, I understand, it's fine, honestly 🙂
The numbers you shared on the thread at the time meant you had enough saved and you could buy the apartment in Dublin. Anyway it way off topic.
I would suggest create a thread in the https://www.boards.ie/categories/banking-insurance-pensions section and get some advice because everything you shared before you would be able to buy an apartment in Dublin now
When is the Dáil back?
I think its brilliant how even when the dail is closed Leo puts his foot in it. Top man. He really is a blessing.
Troy on talking about all his properties and the nothing to see here from MM and LV is not a good look. The idea that FG will win seats based on FF not ruling out a coalition with SF, shows how out of touch FG are.
Mid Sept I believe.
Which means the Troy story will get constantly rebooted.
The short term optics for FFG are woeful. The perception will be long lasting.
FF broke housing market.
FG made it worse.
FFG members and cuckoo funds making a killing off the broken system at citizen expense.
Every single effort to deflect and defend is so damaging.
I am flabberghasted FG came out so quick in his defence. What were they thinking?
That 'top class' comment is going to be some soundbite.
Anyone able to rationalise it in a coalition context...what was the thinking? It was fairly obvious from the get go this was a minefield of toxic optics, as you say.
And what of the Greens - silent as far as I know.
The school transport issue is another government own goal. They should be giving preference to people who paid in years gone by.
They don't see housing as a real issue, FG in particular. They view landlords, like their TDs as successful and they see renters as being unproductive. They are giving responses based on their own personal views. The "welfare class, underclass" narrative has now extended to anyone who doesnt own a home. Soon it will be anyone who doesnt work in IT or Finance
Not sure how you are coming up with this stuff, far fetched to say the least
I would say it's closer than 80% correct. 🤪
Over a decade of a record breaking crisis. They are either complete incompetents or encouraging it for their profit.
You will be told filling out forms is hard. Then being experts and fixing housing issues.
I'd imagine it has stopped any growth in the polls stone dead. Micheál had been doing so well and now it is straight back to classic FF in on fell swoop.
You can discuss Troy in the context of the potential impact on the Government here. All other discussion of what he did, why, how he has reacted etc. belongs in the dedicated thread
Both "sides" just drop it and move on
Any links?
I think that a RedC poll in September 2020 had FF as low as 10%. That was a highly abnormal time due to Covid. However, if FF goes below 14% in a RedC poll, I think that the backbenchers will remove Martin. The Troy fiasco might be the trigger that causes that poll collapse. The other interesting effect will be that on FG due to Varadkar praising Troy. If SF tap into the anger about Housing and Troy then breaking the 40% barrier is possible and that's moving into majority government territory. Of course, the 40% barrier would need to be broken in all polls for it to have any possibility of being accurate due to the pollsters using different polling methods.
Regads...jmcc
FF are stuck with Martin and there is certainly no appetite for a move unless you're talking about the cantankerous oldies whipping it up. These are also mid-cycle snapshot polls with an election not remotely likely for two years. If people were still happy with the government at this point you'd think there was something wrong with them.
Is it possible that Martin is so disconnected that he just doesn't see how toxic association with this kind of stuff is for FF? Maybe he believes they are not synonmous with the Galway Tent and the property bubble burst?
He did after all seem to think the banks were not bailed out. Is he living in cloud cuckoo land?
He became taoiseach and that seems to have been the pinacle of his career. Unless he is given a job in the EU, it is all downhill from there. He sacrificed FF's identity as a party and now the electorate is beginning to think of FF and FG as a single party. There may be some in FF who realise the damage that he and Troy Story have done to FF and it makes a leadership challenge more likely. There's also the LNG terminal issue that may upset the Greens.
Regards...jmcc
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He wasn't thinking, but seeing as he's the junior minister in DETE, he has to defend him. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. MM's silence until the weekend was deafening though.
Do you think the State's handling of housing over the last 2 decades has been commendable?
The Greens? Yeh, I remember them. 😁
Very quiet ATM as coalition partners. I would have thought they would have been pursued for comment. Are they quietly seething or quietly hoping it goes away.
