Simon Harris, the TikTok Taoiseach

I never liked Leo, he always came across as disingenuous when he spoke and generally found him to be self serving.

Harris has taken the political waffle to another level, he's talking but the words don't mean anything. Just empty sound bites, how are they so out of touch with joe public on the street.

she, like most of these politicans are a danger to the country.

I think you are taking it too literally...I dont think anyone thinks Harris is going to be as disastrous as Liz Truss....where I would draw the comparison is just that he could be an ill prepared lightweight thrust or scrambling into the limelight way before his time or perhaps he should never have a time ... that and the other more senior and possibly heads with more foresight letting him at it...

I hope Im wrong.....no one wants an actual liz truss anywhere near influencing the driving seat

Maybe I will be.....sometimes great people can get off to a very rocky start

The tik tok Taoiseach is going to save FG because he's on tik tok and is down with the youth? This is the new shtick, right?

lol The majority of kids on tik tok don't even know what end of a brush to use, let alone find their way to a polling booth.

Carry the inevitable self slit throat on FG

I agree with you time should be given to allow the electorate to form judgements on things.

And I also despise quick, cheap, fickle social media posts and so on.

But in fairness, the poster you were replying to, was stating that Harris made comments on policy that he himself, and his party, has had the opportunity to implement over the last several years.

So, I'll give credit to Harris where he achieves, but I don't think it's too outrageous to read his comments and interpret them as ironic.

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/fionnan-sheahan-its-april-1-and-it-would-be-foolish-timing-if-simon-harris-decided-to-reform-tv-licence/a975734008.html

Sheahan wrote:

"Take a look at today's date if you think the TikTok Taoiseach has the TV licence on his list of priorities."

The current timeline rules out a decision on the licence before the local and European elections, after which the countdown to the general election kicks in.

Harris is committed to seeing out the government's full term but late autumn can't be ruled out for polling day.

What are the chances of us having our general election this autumn?

Is this government willing to leave reform of the funding of public-service broadcasting to a possible SF government?

Where do they go to? Very few will turn to SF and rightly so, some may vote FF but aren't they as responsible for the direction the country is going as FG. Labour is full of crackpots. Independents are a little less useless than PBP, SD and the other ingredients in the alphabet soup. The options are less than limited. I could see a very low turnout for any election in the next year.

Will there be anybody left in FG by the time of the general election?

Coveney stepping down from cabinet. FG's big beasts are really going out of their way way to have zero to do with next GE result.

AFAIK he announced it on RTE Clare Byrne show in the last hour