I think it will be FF/FG again with god knows who. Hopefully a left wing party
It will be November 15th
They have committed to an average of 50k new homes per year from 2025 to 2030, with 60k in 2030.
They are also very likely to build more than SF and thats what matters.
Petrol will not be priortised by any govt. We have carbon emmission targets that are not going away, so hybrid and electric will be any govt's focus, along with a switch to public transport.
Hard to listen to FFG spouting nonsense about what they'll do to make things better.
YOU'VE BEEN IN POWER FOR 100 YEARS
Why haven't you done it???
Can you tell us what FF and FG are going about building houses (on track to have lower house builds than last year)
How they doing on petrol prices?
I hate to say it but I think that Sinn Fein will moer than likely get in, or if not go 50/50ish with FF.
I don't think they'll lose votes. The people who backed them in 2020 are still there, even with the narrative that they have gotten immigration wrong for their main support group. IMHO these same people aren't too concerned about the recent scandals either.
In many ways I'd morbidly like to see them have a shot in leading government if only to show up their lack of any substantial policy on anything outside of a 32 county Ireland.
Mary Lou is credible but well past her sell by date. I've dealt professionally with a lot of their back benchers and they are just pitiful. In the whole, their entry into the party and reason to be is exclusively a "F the brits" mentality.
"F the brits" is great n all but it doesn't build houses, put petrol in your car or add anything of substance in modern day Ireland.
The late, great George Carlin viewed it differently.
The only people that want Labour and the SDs to merge are some people who don't follow SD and Labour supporters
The SDs just doubled their seats in local elections, why in the name of God would they merge with a party like Labour
How would a merger help? Previous left mergers, like Labour and DL ended up being smaller than the sum of the original parts.
So Gilmore should have stayed out of Government and let FG blast away with support from Ross and a few other indies, with their planned push for pure Tory policies, like selling off €5 billion of state assets?
Comprising wouldn't be the leading word in any of those parties vocabulary but they have some things in common. There's definitely common ground there. If they ever really want an alternative they'll have to put egos aside. I think it would be good for all of us to have a viable alternative.
In an ideal world Labour and SD would merge.
Basically clashing ideologies and egos stopping SD, Labour, PBP, SF, Greens working together.
They could have done this a few weeks ago in the budget. If anyone believes them on this, they are more stupid than I thought
I wonder to what extent the Soc Dems will be impacted by the retirement of Shorthall and Murphy? Holly Cairns is to have a baby in a fortnight- best of luck to them both - but in fairness, her visibility will be impacted.
The point would be, here is your alternative. You can stick with FFG or you can give this alliance a go. At the moment, people think voting for one of the others is a waste of a vote because they're not going into power anyway. If it actually was a viable option, people might vote for something different. The greens have to water down their policies anyway with FFG. They might actually have a better chance of getting things they want done with the rest of the alternatives. The same with Labour, SF, PBP, any aligned independents etc.
what went wrong ? million more people
There was a steady rise in data centre consumption from 290 Gigawatt hours in January to March (Q1) 2015 to
1,661 GWh in October to December (Q4) 2023
might have something to do with it
Its hard to see past another FFG led coalition albeit I think the Greens will be trounced again as folk always do with the junior party.
So it'll be FFG and a 3rd party and a few independents.
SF are swimming against their own issues and if the opinion polls are accurate? Will be hard pressed to hold onto the number of seats won in 2020. They could still be the foundation of a "Coalition of the left" but I can't see them gaining enough support to do so.
I'm in Limerick city constituency and the likely returned TD's will be O'Dea, Quinlivan, and one of either Sheehan or Daly taking the 4th seat IMO. Last election Daly transferred well to Leddin on his elimination, this time round I expect that to be reversed.
Giveaway budget and then this. Trying to buy votes could backfire. Are they suggesting that FF wouldn't let them cut the VAT rate back in the budget? Peter Burke (FG) was pushing hard for it in October. 9% admittedly. Maybe it was all a play.
More money to throw around from FG. When it comes to public spending,Harris is making Bertie Ahern look frugal.
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.
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Ok then. 2 questions. 1. How do you think FFG have done in relation to the Emissions targets? 2. Do you think FFG have thwarted the Green agenda over the last 4 years?
Because their own Climate Action Plan is failing miserably.
EPA predicts Ireland will miss its emissions targets by a wide margin
The EPA have said this many many many times since the Climate Action Plan was published: “The key priority must be to translate the aspiration in our policies and plans to implementation on the ground."
What went wrong with the implementation details? Green's fault?
Totally agree. I think a viable alternative will emerge but it might take another election cycle. Labour were a decent option back in the day until greedy Gilmore destroyed their credibility after 2011.
FFG are extremely lucky that the alternative parties are so useless. They have been swapping turns at the trough for over a hundred years and are now sharing their time there. Why can't the others get their house in order to come together to oust these goons? House prices and rental prices are at crazy levels. Of course, many in FFG and their friends are developers and landlords. Surely SD, Greens, SF, Labour, PBP etc can come up with some common ground and provide a viable alternative. Individually, the best they can get is to be lapdogs for FFG and get the blame if something is unpopular. Thrash out a program for government together and put petty differences aside.
Maybe tell us your own preferred policies and maybe also whether you expect your preferred party to enact all of your policy expectations
Not a great start for the MoJ. Getting her spin corrected on X
What policies do you vote on , Blanch ?
Perhaps but the poster was laying the blame for the problem solely at immigration which is simply not true.
Why did she delete it? Everyone, including EU nationals, who lives here is subject to the law and non-citizens have no right to be here if they choose to disobey the law (UK citizens possibly excepted due to the CTA but I'm not cetain, we may still be able to deport them)
A lot of people including successive Irish governments forget that EU freedom of movement rights apply to workers, not everyone who wants to rock up here.
US, Canada, Australia etc are quick enough to deport Irish citizens who break the rules. There's nothing whatsoever unfair about that. Those who chose to break the rules knew the rules beforehand.
Was talking to the other half earlier today prompted by a leaflet we got through the door (a popular independent cllr. who's joined Labour, as it happens) and the subject of photo opportunities came up. When she was canvassing for repeal the 8th, FG candidates turned up but only wanted to get the photo op, so they were told photos only happened at the end. So they started turning up 10 mins before the end of each canvass 🙄 Labour, SDs, PBP, WP (remember them?) were solid. The half of SF that wasn't traditionally conservative RC was too, but in a personal capacity as party policy was still officially against it!
How many times since then has MLMD taken credit for repeal?
There is nothing wrong with discouraging asylum seekers, and there is nothing wrong with deportations.
Fact is that people in the Middle East have been killing each other on the basis of differing views on imaginary beings for thousands of years, and if humanity still exists in thousands of years time, they'll still bloody be at it. There's feck all we can do about it (and we can't even solve our own much lesser imaginary being problem on our own island).
But the problem is He’s not sure which house the tickets were sent to.
