Election to be called Fri - predict outcome

Ff,Fg will return similar to the last election and the independents will clean up the sinn Fein vote that will drop. The sein Fein surplus will go mostly to independents and the next government could be very hard to form. Don't be surprised if we have another one in a few months..

I actually think the SF collapse people are talking about might be overhyped. Last election they performed way above what even they expected, but often had only 1 candidate in constituencies they got nearly double the quota for (and I think it was their transfers that benefitted a lot of left independents), and didn't take advantage of the big vote.

Since then they went higher in the polls and were talked about as being the next big party, but their recent drop off will probably bring them back to the previous level of 1 seat per constituency, near enough where they are now. So vote wise they could be well down, but seat wise pretty much the same.

Did you collect them all up and add an extension to your house?

Don't get the predictions for the collapse of the Greens either. You don't vote Green in the first place unless you're committed to their ideology and policies. On that score they've done very well in Government in terms of implementing their policies. Why would someone who voted Green last time suddenly abandon them now?

No left wing party will do anything for housing. We don’t have any builders at home scratching themselves. We can’t build any faster.

We’ve had an economy that’s performing exceptionally well. Attracting lots of inward migration. Who need to be housed.

The only way to do a quick fix on housing is to crash the economy and hope people immigrant in the hundreds of thousands.

There is very little difference between FF and FG anymore.

There is a chasm between SF and FG.

A FF/SF govt was always SFs only chance, but the safe money was always on FF continuing to partner with FG. Stick to what you know and dont risk tanking the economy.

think the greens are gonna get shafted, could very well be labour, and/or others

think it should be the slogan to be honest, or we could roll out other favorites such as 'keep the recovery going'!

No alternative though is there? Not anymore, SF had an opportunity to really slam home an advantage. IIRC, It all started going t**s up with their stance on immigration, or their lack of a stance. I can't remember now

Not a chance will 40k homes be built next year. CSO says we're building less homes this year than last year. Besides, 40k is still over 10k less than what we needed 5 years ago

That's nonsense though. Stick and carrot.. Local TFI transport links have never been better than they are now. Most people just don't use them. And it was the Greens brought in the hugely reduced public transport prices.

Cycle lanes are being built at a rate we've never seen before. Bike to work scheme increased and expanded to include electric bikes.

Rescued childcare costs, etc etc. Their main problem is communication. The main parties take credit for the good stuff and the greens get panned for the negative stuff.