Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Au contraire, this government has supported SMEs through the worst economic upheaval in modern times, with the highest level of financial support of any EU state.

The government is not, however, a shareholder in your business. If the business is not viable, its not viable, due to any or all of; market conditions, ill-formed ideas, or bad management. Not because the government aren't shoring you up with enough shovels full of cash.

I would agree with this generally.
I said yesterday it looked to me that SF had accepted that they would not feature in the next power play and had set course on defining more clearly what they are offering the electorate for good or bad. That remains to be seen.

But of course you will be provisionally accepting it,whatever it is 🤣

The problem for them is that they were trying to be a party for everyone : a left wing, strongly working class party but also a centre left party who would appeal to the middle classes. Many of their traditional working class urban voters would not be comfortable with some of their more 'liberal' policies.

It's a near impossible square to circle. They can't be a left wing, socialist party and yet adopt right wing or even 'far right' policies on immigration and other issues to appeal to their working class base. It's difficult to imagine what direction they will end up going in (the right wing one would surely be career suicide for any Irish political party though….this is not the UK or the US).

The elephant in the room is that many of their traditional, working class urban voters are probably quite right wing in their views (perhaps not fully realising that they have been voting for a left wing party all along…..this was always going to become a problem once issues like immigration and asylum seekers came to the fore).

It was always going to be a huge challenge. Many of their traditional urban voters in working class areas could hardly be called be called 'left wing' at all : genuine left wing voters would often go for PBP, the Soc Dems and Labour instead.

So we've ended up with the strange dichotomy of a left wing party receiving many of its votes from people who are arguably 'right wing'…..but they also have a real left wing element too i.e. the pro-Palestine section. This inevitably is posing major problems for SF (not to mention all the internal machinations).

I said I believed her when she said she was abused and no way did I defend that abuse as suggested.

I did not believe her when she said she was not helped by SF as there is a paper record of her being helped and advised by some of the SF people accused. She claimed to have a 'forensic memory' of the events but forgot to say she was herself against going to the police, actually asked the IRA to help and was anti the GFA and joined the RNU.

Have you never heard of GDPR?

Tbf, the lad your quoting really doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer.