General Irish politics discussion thread

ff and fg to romp home in election.it’s obvious that a fair chunk of the country are happy with what’s going on .tents,waiting lists in hospitals,limerick hospital all going great and homelessness.doesn’t matter

So if you want to express your opposition to the current Government management of the Immigration situation you have two choices.You can vote for some feisty local on an "Ireland first" platform who probably wont get elected or suck it up and vote for one of the mainstream parties.So in reality there is no way for the electorate to voice their displeasure because of the strange consensus in the political community on this issue.This consensus is strange given the consensus on the ground is in my experience the opposite,I get that its anecdotal but there is definitely IMO a disconnect ,like the political parties nailed their convictions to the mast back in 2020 and won't react to a dramatically changing reality that is becoming worse by the day.

Whats stopping you and all the others involved in this "consensus on the ground" from standing yourselves?

What the anti-government and anti-'establishment' supporters are missing is that vast swathes of the population are largely unaffected by things like homelessness, the current housing crisis and hospital waiting lists. Terrible for those people and families actually caught up in it, yes, but it still represents a much smaller subset of the population.

Ditto with the whole immigration thing : probably 95% of Irish people don't live anywhere near an asylum centre or have one in their locality. There must be plenty of counties in Ireland that scarcely has a single asylum or refugee centre within its borders. The idea that the population would be basing their general election vote on the asylum situation was always hugely optimistic.

National Party, IFP et all, the facsist alliance really

One of the most deluded posts I've ever read on here. Well done Sir.

Gross.

The far left parties will always favour purity over compromise.

FF, FG, greens and Labour have proven they can compromise to form a government. SF suggest they can too. I'd like to think the Soc Dems also would (although I worry about them also going down the purity route).

I can't see any other small party being open to legitimate negotiation. Some indys, yes. But not any of the other small parties.

Independents supporting the formation of the next government should insist on a relaxation of Ireland’s party whip system and the implementation of Seanad reform, according to Independent Senator Michael McDowell.

Yeah Mick, I'm sure Seanad Reform is top of the shopping list for say Michael Lowry or Noel Grealish.

The fundamental problem with this call is if as expected FFG are only looking for the support of a handful of indos, it's the ones making the most minimal demands re national policy, or preferably none at all, who are most likely to be recruited…

There is no alternative as Mary Lou is more WEF than even the FF/FGers.....and that's why SF have collapsed in the polls.

Voters who currently are ambivalent to how our welfare system is being gamed by economic tourists will eventually see the light when the tide inevitably goes out on the current boom on corporation tax etc and they see their pensions robbed again or draconian taxes introduced.Folk are mostly liberal on immigration when others are doing the heavy lifting ,posters on here need to pay attention how liberal countries like Denmark,Germany ,Sweden are all changing their minds on welcoming all comers.

I do wish that the SF housing policy has some innovative ideas. We do need to get up to building over 50K units/year. My first thought though is that, some of the measures look like they'll face, constitutional challenges.

bit of both,head cases that would never have saved their deposit will poll really well and canvassers will report back to the strength of negative feeling on doorsteps.

Such a strong support he couldn't get a council seat