"Green" policies are destroying this country

Don't be silly. This government doesn't do long term planning.

At the end of the day in economics it all comes back to that old saying, "money talks, bullshit walks"

The German government, the mother and father of this green wind revolution that is in large part to blame for much of the present European energy crisis with their reliance (and their often bullyboy tactics of attempting to encourage others to do the same) on Putin`s gas as a transitional energy source, are cutting their Climate and Transformation Fund for 2024 by €12 Billion with further cuts of €33 Billion between 2024 and 2027. And that is a coalition government that includes greens in a country that was the economic powerhouse of Europe.

I don`t think anybody really believes at this stage that the economics behind this present plan are viable. If they do then they have not shown how they believe it is. It doesn`t really matter that much who is in a future government. Economics is like tailoring, you have to cut your cloth to suit your purse.

Really disappointing article in the Irish Times. It perpetuates the myth of an urban rural divide in Green Party support, with rural areas being anti Green Party.

The reality is that the vast majority of urban areas are anti Green Party as well. You only have to look at their pathetic polling figures.

Well the fact of the matter is that the modern Green Party here is an urban party, they pursue policies that service and address the needs of urban living. And have given up really on rural Ireland. Malcolm Noonan's base for example is Kilkenny, a large town. So it's not a myth to say they hope to elected from the green leafy suburbs. The bite there is that increasingly rental and purchase of property is a problem for middle class adult children and whilst there are many causes, boosting the population with tens of thousands of new arrivals annually ain't helping.

This is the bit I don't get. The Green agenda would be hopeful of reducing air travel alright but in theory the Greens should be hugely behind domestic tourism, the staycation etc. The paradox is that they've been busy shafting domestic rural tourism this past year and two. I don't think they understand the effects on towns like Killarney. Sure the rich Yanks & well paid politicians & public servants can still stay there and play golf. But those visitors with less disposable income have been frozen out by the conversion of cheaper accommodation to refugee use.

Catherine Martin is Minister for Tourism. I can't recall a single announcement that I came across in the past year from her, supporting domestic tourism. I've heard her on about culture and artists etc - but domestic tourism, she's missing in action completely afaik.

Even IF Ireland and the EU ever achieve "net zero", i bet it makes no difference at all to global temperatures. I anticipate we'll then see them fully pivot to the next gimmick : Carbon sequestration.

Is there any limit to the stupidity Ryan talks about?

so they hike up the tolls and force cars to drive through the cities and now he wonders why? They built the most expensive children’s hospital in the world, and those who will work there will have their parking space removed? Is this geezer for real?

I'm finding it's a lot of the small independents that are the sensible ones and the major political organisations that are the looney crew personally..

Take a screenshot at 4am and see how many trans Atlantic flights are transiting Irish airspace, even if we reduced incoming flights, there are still a huge amount of flights flying through "our air". We'll be the best boys in class as usual, while international partners do as they please.

Again all that matters are the KPIs. Whats the old adage...what gets measured gets done

The 23 combined Green/PBP/LAB seats are likely to turn into 3-5 seats total for those parties, and 18-20 SF seats in the next election. Most of their voters aren't moving to the right. A large number of those TDs were also only elected on SF runoff votes in the last election, because SF didn't run enough candidates.

The new Farmers Alliance party, which will hopefully do well (and topically for this thread has the most anti-Green agenda of any of our parties now), will take most of its votes from FF/FG/SF though.

Electric buses being charged on nothing but harmless diesel generated electricity, I'm confused 🤔...

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