If Sinn Fein had majority Govt.

old hippy · 05-11-2013 01:23PM #1

In the Republic of Ireland; would it make any difference to your daily being?

mike65 · 05-11-2013 01:25PM

Depends on if they nationalise the banks or not....oh wait.

errlloyd · 05-11-2013 01:25PM

I'd emigrate.

Iwasfrozen · 05-11-2013 01:28PM

old hippy wrote: »

In the Republic of Ireland; would it make any difference to your daily being?

Fire and Brimstone. No I wouldn't like it but I'd put up with it.

codie · 05-11-2013 01:30PM

Does it really matter who is in power.We are so far down the austerity road there is no turning back.No matter who is in power they have to get the money some way to pay for the gangsters that broke the country.

D1stant · 05-11-2013 01:32PM

The bankruptcy law would be redrafted as the disappearance law

Dravokivich · 05-11-2013 01:33PM

old hippy wrote: »

In the Republic of Ireland; would it make any difference to your daily being?

Not entirely too sure what you mean by that. If it's an opinion you want, I wouldn't like it.

old hippy · 05-11-2013 01:36PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

Not entirely too sure what you mean by that. If it's an opinion you want, I wouldn't like it.

Opinions, thoughts - you know, would it be a good/bad thing? Would you leave/stay?

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 05-11-2013 01:37PM

old hippy wrote: »

In the Republic of Ireland; would it make any difference to your daily being?

Yes, I would have to sell up , emigrate , and change my nationality.

Roger_007 · 05-11-2013 01:37PM

old hippy wrote: »

In the Republic of Ireland; would it make any difference to your daily being?

Of course it would. Unemployment would be Zero. All distressed mortgages would be written off. Pensions and social welfare would be increased by 100%. The banks would be brought to heel, (they have form there). Bond holders would be "disappeared". The Troika, IMF, and ECB would all be told to take a hike, (after we got their money off them, of course). The national debt would be cancelled.
We would finally return to being a land of saints and scholars.

What's not to like.:eek:

I Heart Internet · 05-11-2013 01:38PM

Widows and "troublemakers" would be going missing the whole time.

Our HSE would be fixed with hte influx of slightly faded Sterling, NI Sterling and assorted foreign exchange pulled from "the national reserves".

A period of national service would be mandatory. The knee breaking brigade will be the first to recruit.

All radio broadcasts will now be in badly spoken Irish.

The sitchacion would improve immeasurably.

Dravokivich · 05-11-2013 01:38PM

old hippy wrote: »

Opinions, thoughts - you know, would it be a good/bad thing? Would you leave/stay?

Couldn't leave if I wanted to. To be honest I've very little interest in any of the parties themselves. They all seem more concerned with pot shots at each other instead of running the country.

Iwasfrozen · 05-11-2013 01:41PM

Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »

Yes, I would have to sell up , emigrate , and change my nationality.

I'd be ashamed to be Irish.

hfallada · 05-11-2013 01:42PM

I could actually see a lot of educated middle class leaving due to high income taxes.

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-11-2013 01:42PM

Cant see the Gardai or the army taking orders from a Sinn Fein minister

micosoft · 05-11-2013 01:43PM

I'd emigrate to Northern Ireland. I'd rather live under the "Brits" then Sinn Fein where rule of law meant something.

It's seriously hypothectical - Sinn Fein supporters seem to imagine growth is a straight line thing. It's not. SF will remain toxic for a lot of southerners.

AnonoBoy · 05-11-2013 01:47PM

I'd make witty political jibes about them on boards.

Thank God they're not in power though cause I have no good ones ready.

Eight Ball · 05-11-2013 01:48PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Cant see the Gardai or the army taking orders from a Sinn Fein minister

Then they should be fired.

old hippy · 05-11-2013 01:50PM

Eight Ball wrote: »

Then they should be fired.

Sinn Fein or the Gardai? And why?

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-11-2013 01:50PM

Eight Ball wrote: »

Then they should be fired.

and then we have a coup on our hands

LuckyLloyd · 05-11-2013 01:58PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Cant see the Gardai or the army taking orders from a Sinn Fein minister

I'd say you're dead wrong there. So long as the election process was fair and democratic, I'd be shocked if the defense forces carried out a coup d'état.

Tramps Like Us · 05-11-2013 02:02PM

Lots of people doing a Ray Darcy I see

mike65 · 05-11-2013 02:02PM

Vote early and often.

old hippy · 05-11-2013 02:02PM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I'd say you're dead wrong there. So long as the election process was fair and democratic, I'd be shocked if the defense forces carried out a coup d'état.

If they did, could we see resistance? A latter day civil war?

anncoates · 05-11-2013 02:04PM

Maybe they could get rid of the recession by just making it disappear for 20 years.

Roger_007 · 05-11-2013 02:04PM

Would it be a "real" government or just a "continuity" government?

Fratton Fred · 05-11-2013 02:05PM

We'd have six months of of smug celebration from the Celtic Jersey brigade and then six months of massive back peddling on election promises and then the IMF back in.

old hippy · 05-11-2013 02:05PM

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

Lots of people doing a Ray Darcy I see

For those of us who don't follow Ray Darcy, could you elaborate?

Savoir.Faire · 05-11-2013 02:08PM

If they ever get into Government then there will be no one more disappointed in their populism and sleeveen style of politics than the rump of young men who blindly follow their ideology on the 'national question'.

Morphing quickly into a slightly greener shade of FF. It is progress of a sort I suppose.

anncoates · 05-11-2013 02:08PM

Roger_007 wrote: »

Would it be a "real" government or just a "continuity" government?

It's is given that they'd split into two wings immediately following the election so parliament would be postponed until one faction rubbed the other out.

My money would be on whatever side Ellis and Ferris were on. I couldn't see the likes of Marry Lou or O'Snodaigh being much use in a guerilla civil war.

Larbre34 · 05-11-2013 02:09PM

old hippy wrote: »

For those of us who don't follow Ray Darcy, could you elaborate?

Im guessing, a fit of indignance, largely based on a massively subjective appraisal of a topic. Going off on one in other words

If Sinn Fein had majority Govt.

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