Election to be called Fri - predict outcome

House price to income ratios have gotten larger and larger over the past 30 years.

Houses were empirically more affordable in the 90s and early 2000s compared to now

I love how "it's power sharing" doesn't work as an excuse but "it's a coalition governmnet" does work as an excuse when it comes to trying to justify why FG and FF have implemented absolutely none of the things they promised they'd do if elected to government following this election. 😂

Straight back to the "SF supporters cannot accept there are non FFG options other than their awful party" thing I see.

Going to be some extremely fun to watch reverse-ferreting if SF do end up going in with FF in a few weeks.

I would argue a similar statement, that almost every political party and indie are only going to be capable of going in to Government with both of FFG anyway.

At the end of the 2020 GE FFG were at 73 seats, 8 short of a majority, meaning that in theory All the other parties and indies could have joined forces to keep the civil war parties out of govt

In practice they had enough votes in 2020 without the greens as FFG have a number of indies that will back them all the way if necessary

For me the main difference is that FFG have both dismissed SF out of hand while SF have said they are at least open to negotiations. So to me, and to many others I'm sure, SF seem like the more grown up party

Oh my word, we aren't allowed to explain our positions now?

The salivating about the Shinners turning to right continues. We now have the suggestion they are turning to the far-right. How much more ridiculously desperate are folk gonna get I wonder?

With the exception of the smaller parties I don't think in right or left terms, I have said this before. I am right on some issues and left on others. I see all the main parties in the same light.

I can't honesty tell you what the watershed point for me would be on immigration but setting up an umbrella ministry to deal with it and having a look at EU registrations is a long way off that point.

Question (mostly) evaded, again.

You accused people of not reading your posts, yet you've now spent a few posts trying to turn "further" in to "far"; because you don't want to answer an incredibly simple question and feel that you would can better deal with a misrepresented version of the post.

But the post I was replying to was talking about 40 years ago, not the run-up to the crash when banks were throwing money at people.

The OP I was responding to when you interjected - go read his/her post properly.

You can't accept the answer, that is on you.

Thread ain't about me.

Certainly will be very interesting. Only point I’d overwhelmingly disagree with is Harris.

He’s all but guaranteed to top the poll by a country mile. PP have him 1/200. Brady 1/20.

Everything is so different to 2020. SF support has plummeted. Harris is Taoiseach and hugely popular (across the country but particularly in greystones). Who doesn’t want a local Taoiseach!
I’m going to venture he’ll get the second highest vote share of any TD after Healy Rae (or if not, top 5)…which coincidentally is a title Donnelly had at one point I think!

"I'm going to give you an example of what it's not" isn't an answer.

You never gave an actual answer for me to accept (or not), you fudged and evaded.

My parent's generation were all able to afford houses on 1 income. This would have been late 70s into early 80s.

Was it hard? I'm sure it was. Was it as hard as now? Nope. And that's not to take from the difficulty that people had then.

I've said this already, but if something is hard for you, you should be aiming to make it easier for those who come along after you. Not make it at least equally as hard because it's fairer that way then or whatever the view is. Don't pull the trapdoor up after you like. Drop a ladder down.

Yep, spoke to someone today who met Harris at the dart station.

‘I hate Fine Gael. I wanted to hate Simon Harris…but he’s just too f’in nice to hate’.

I’m on the fence on Donnelly. Part of me respects what he’s done. He could have stayed an independent or Social Democrat. Guaranteed to top the polls for the rest of time. Staying on the fence making absolutely zero difference to anything but collecting his kudos and his paychecks.

Taking on the Minister for Health is brave. It’s almost always going to lead you to being less popular (have you not fixed the HSE yet???). Fact he wants it again despite it almost guaranteeing he will never be elected again afterwards says a lot to me. Probably be 4th on my ballot.

Once again with the assumptions that anyone willing to call out SF supports FFG. Which was my entire point. Not doing a great job denying the rabidness there.

I don't, I won't be voting for them and haven't voted for them. People who don't support FFG can still see the huge, huge problems with SF.

FFG are terrible in Government. SF are terrible in Government, because we can see that in NI and on councils they do/did have dominant control of.