Referendum on Gender Equality (THREADBANS IN OP)

Hilarious the reaction to a no vote and blaming the government.

The reality is the people who were bothered to vote for this campaign showed up, equally those who cared took the time to understand what they were voting for.

Maybe this needs its own thread, but why do Irish politicians (more so ministers in this case) have such a brass neck that they won't resign. O'Gormon brought 2 referendums to the people and both were rejected, this was his baby, he failed in his task, he should step down immediately. Mcentee is another one who should has resigned months ago.

Is it a consequence of the 3 party government and lack of options, or do they think so highly of themselves they can't see their flaws.

Roddy's on the gravy train. He knows he is goosed in the next election and wants that ministers pay. Then he'll float of to a government funded NGO job.

He used to work as a lecturer before politics. He's never been out of his bubble in his life and never will.

Yes most of our politicians are parasites who have risen above their level.

They wouldnt cut it in the private sector, wasters the lot of them.

They seem to have a misguided opinion thats its the ballot box that decides their fate. While the electorate decide whether they sit as a td, that shouldn't have any bearing on resigning from ministerial jobs.

But as you say, gravy train. And while that self opinion contuines, the public will continue to be disenfranchised with politics.

wasting 23m says it all

I am so proud of the Irish voter today. They were not taken in by any oul rameish dished out to the unwashed plebs who might not know any better.

The way so many saw through the BS and voted accordingly is just brilliant. We are a very sophisticated electorate and the Government should take note big time now.

If the Government nail their mast to one side of the vote, then they are not facilitators, they have skin in the game. It's one thing being a Minister, or even being leader of a party and voting one way, or the other. It's a whole other ball game when you spend a chunk of public money to try to sway the vote in one direction. I'm not calling for any resignations, but if it were me, I would bow out gracefully and let someone else take the reigns.

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We've got a live one here folks!

No one ever claimed the wording of the constitution was great.

But the lies that spilled out of the mouths of the people for this referendum was much worse.

I think it's time someone calls out the the damage the Greens are doing to Irish society.

We have Catherine Martin and the RTE fiasco plus her continued assertion of the falsehood that a women's place is in the home

O'Gorman and the Attorney General ( let's call it) mismatch of facts in relation to this 23 million Euro fiasco referendum

Green Party TD and Minister of State in the department of Rural Affairs Joe O'Brien complicity in the silencing of State funded entities.

He bought the goose for dinner on March 8th but he expected his mother to fatten it, butcher and then Cook.

He disappeared for the last few months and his party, and every one else for yes, didn't lift a finger to get a single vote on board.

The "it's too much effort, it will be grand" attitude of this govt again and again.

No one will bother to hold him to account, no one will bother to ask why.

Yeah. It Defines it based on genitalia possessed by the subject in question

I never really see asking the citizens of a country for their opinion on how the country should be run as a waste of money tbh. We can agree to disagree on thet one though.

There was also strong demand by the citizens assembly to have a referendum on that section of the Constitution and it has been a talking point for decades.

They can't spend public money advocating for one side or the other. I don't think going down the road of barring government Ministers and TDs from having an opinion on a referendum is a particularly health approach to take either.

Were they both put forward by O'Gorman?

If so, you have a very fair point.

If someone is that out of touch with the electorate, it seems reasonable to consider their position.