Sinn Féin finds further errors in 2020 election returns: 26th Jan 2023

We do know that NI has even a bigger homeless issue than the South.

I don't belive for a second that SF will solve the housing issue, in fact they would probably make it worse.

Also, if they need FF to go into power, there wont be anything near as radical in terms of housing.

They do and it’s another party with a plan to do things differently to the incumbents.

Whether it works or not remains to be seen. But what is certain IMO is that we have to do many things differently.

Share what?

I am referring to the many different ways of doing things that SF and indeed other parties have offered in the many many debates around the problem areas of housing and health etc.

I presume this will be the ways things are done if in power

Google is your friend Seth.

Housing | Sinn Féin (sinnfein.ie)

Well anybody can do that.

One thing is a fact though, 100 years of FG and FFs way has been waffle, unless a housing crisis is the objective.

If you think the info is deficient, why not ask them?

I have been listening to them for years and I'm happy they will approach it differently. They may not solve it but at least we will have tried.

if its a junior party to anyone it wont work. Not too sure what I'd feel of a FF/SF coalition though. Not too sure many shinners would be into that

They wont have a choice tbh.

There are not enough votes for SF and the broad left to form a government and even if you did, can you imagine SF, Labour, SD, The Greens and the PBP/Solidarity crowd in a government?

SF will have to take its medicine if it wants to form a government and go to FF. That is the nature of coalition government. A reality sorely lacking from some SF supporters

If they're the largest party this time around and don't go into government, they'll have an awful lot of questions to answer to their borrowed voters.

There will be a core vote from the permanently disaffected who do not understand how our elections work and who will rant about how it is somehow anti-democratic, but ironically those are the voters they're likely to lose if they DO go into government and don't have a magic wand to fix everything, give them all free houses and increase the dole to a grand a week.

There's always a choice.....they're not always good choices

Ah come on now, Francie.....you're engaged enough with politics that I can't believe that you've not encountered someone claiming that MLMD should be Taoiseach because SF, 'won' the last election, or someone making claims on how they're voting SF because they'll look after, 'the poor' and moaning that FF/FG have never done anything for those on benefits despite our very high rates and our annual fiver rise, or how they'll fix everything by, 'taxing the rich'?

Not suggesting that ALL people intending to vote SF are so inclined, there's plenty I've spoke to with a, 'well they might not fix everything but couldn't be worse than the other shower' mentality too.

I'd disagree, I think plenty of those people vote. Certainly there are some so disenfranchised that they never vote, but there have always been a core, 'the Shinners will fix everything' vote who are out every time. Now they're joined with a new cohort who were previously disenfranchised non-voters but have bought into this mentality and are now voting because of the aforementioned reasons.

Quite the opposite.

Given some of MLMD's statements about the protests, and her support of protesting communities, there is more than a little of playing to the gallery going on from Sinn Fein.

In my opinion, calls for more consultation and more information are just facades for racist anti-immigrant behaviour to hide behind. MLMD is indulging these people for votes.

In what way do we have it far better here? We seem to have the worst of both worlds, bungalow blight yet finding housing is difficult and unaffordable.

What specific SF policies have I advocated on here?

Politically, my primary goals are to see the breaking of the 100 year power swap and a UI. If the SD's look like it is they who can do it, they get my vote in the next GE.

I'll judge SF when they are in power just as I have FF and FG the Greens, Labour etc.

I'm a republican, I am in agreement with SF on some issues, though not all.