Election to be called Fri - predict outcome

Claire Kerrane of Sinn Fein first out of the blocks on immigration - she deleted a post on Facebook where she said an immigrant who commits a crime should be deported.

https://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-immigration-2-6537275-Nov2024/?utm_source=twitter_short

To blame immigration as the sole cause of homelessness is both reductive and dishonest but I dare say you know that but that political bias on display in your posts is playing out here too!

Not sure how many times this needs to be repeated but valid criticism of government policies does not mean implicit support of Sinn Fein.

There are several posters whose knee jerk reaction when someone says anything critical of the governing parties is "Well what about Sinn Fein?".

It is extremely tedious.

I am very disappointed in this government in many key areas. However, I will not be voting for Sinn Fein. Please stop patronising people like me.

Immigration into the country started back in the 1990s.

But drug addiction and chaotic lifestyles are also factors in long term homelessness.

I'd guess this man won't bother to vote.

Perhaps but the poster was laying the blame for the problem solely at immigration which is simply not true.

Not a great start for the MoJ. Getting her spin corrected on X

Thrash out a program for government together and put petty differences aside.

Not clear to me that this would boost the combined opposition vote. There's an argument that they are better each pitching to their individual left niche and encouraging their voters to transfer to the others. That way the Greens say are free to go hell for leather with environmental stuff rather than having to water down their policies for the sake of forming a common opposition platform. The coming together can happen in what looks now to be the vanishingly unlikely event they have the numbers to form a government without FF or FG.