FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3 - Threadbanned User List in OP

This is a creepy post.

So they lost but if 'ifs and buts were candy and nuts'.

If he ran again and got the same result he might get a seat if nobody got more, so it's a win? Nice.

He's still out. A middle class FG supposed safe seat was lost. I don't like seeing it wasted on Labour. May as well have gone to the Ryan contingent in the Greens.

I wouldn't take it so personal. Party leaders get a lot of attention. Especially ones under criminal investigation.

I think Varadkar, if he does become Taoiseach, will do big damage to Fine Gael but I doubt he'll care. He's a no trick pony looking for a sequel to a movie people walked out of.

Martin got his dream job, so he couldn't give a fiddlers.

The FF/FG exception for cuckoo funds won't be forgotten as housing becomes even more difficult.

The good for little Greens are enjoying being seated on the deck of the Titanic while it lasts.

He can be as virulent as he wants. It's turned his party into a vaguely comical rump, spreading bogeyman nonsense on the internet instead of cracking on with very serious national challenges that developed on their watch.

He seems affronted that there is a political movement other than his own that will spoil his party. It's not mature and it's not in the spirit of honest debate in a modern democracy.

Opposing opinions are all gravy, make them measured though and not telegraphed from the spooky boy Fine Gael twitter war machine.

That's the nub. When we break it down, Varadkar stands for very little, and always has if we're to be honest. It's instructive how giddy he got when Macron got elected and made a beeline to get a selfie with him in Paris before he was even FG leader.

Same type of character; all political kayfabe, an amorphous and patronising know it all, who operate on smoke and mirrors and some sort of vague competencies that no one can put their finger on if pushed. If you asked them what they really believed you'd never get a straight answer, they're just a type of grey contemporary patrician character that knows best even when they're duffing up. Always had a messianic belief in themselves rather than a coherent vision of society that's going anywhere. A bland and fairly gutless managerial political avatar for the neo liberal age.

Most likely to tell you "that's just the way it is" when confronted with a screw up of their making. Dig a under the surface and needle a little bit, and it's evident they don't like getting questioned, have a fairly grim view of those that may be struggling in society (that's a YOU problem) and citizens generally tbh, and bristle at the suggestion they are taking things in the wrong direction or screwing up.

Above all they have an overriding need to be seen as the smartest boy in the room and always wearing the big boy pants. Anything else is crushing to them.