Did you vote, Giggles?
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Did you vote, Giggles?
No, FG and FF arranged the date to shut out new registrations (fear of the Greens). That said, it’s my own fault as I could have been on it before now and I would have in this one.
Lord Vradkar will get back in no problem but SF topping his own constituency has to be embarrassing if it comes to pass.
Who would you have voted for?Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
An independent 1 and Sinn Fein 2.
And a nice poke at Lord Vradkar.
What is Sinn Fein's space in Ireland? Are they left of the other two?
As far as these things go, yes.
10 fucking Greens already :moop:
LOLOL.
Wouldn't vote for SF myself but great to see the establishment take a kicking.
This is about right. But we have to put up with a charade for the next couple of weeks before there's a government.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51443421
I would like my vote back.
There we go then.
I still reckon it’ll be the last option and another election.
https://www.rte.ie/news/election-202...ion-what-next/
I have no idea about Irish politics, are the two 'main' parties (the ones that sound the same, Fáil and Gael) similar in a Peoples Front of Judea/Judean Peoples Front sort of way? Is that the fate of all PR systems? To have the middle ground hogged by largely indiscernible rivals (I have the same problems with the German parties)?
I read the wiki on both the other day but it made absolutely no sense so I'll leave it to all the other English experts.
Consensual politics is so boring.
It has nothing to do with PR. One of them comes from the winning side in the civil war, the other from the losing side. That legacy more than anything has kept them as seperate parties, and until the 1980s they were winning 90% of the vote between them. But that's been dropping and is now just 44% so it's going to be harder to sustain, seeing as their ideological differences are minor.
:harold:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
It's almost enough to put up with all the statist bollocks they're serving up.
We’re looking like having same again (FF/FG) with the Greens added also. Couldn’t be a worse outcome for anyone without a silver spoon up their holes.
FG originate from Nazi’s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
That's a possibility but a questionable one. While Micheal Martin would chew off his own arm for that outcome, he has to take his party with him and both of the other two have been saying that they aren't up for it. It's the paragon of journalism that is the Sunday Independent that has been talking it up, with no basis other than they hate Sinn Fein. It's more likely that we'll have another election.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
No they don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Good old Jeffrey D want’s ‘special consideration’ now so they can ship in mong foreigners to work the pittance jobs in their factories. He wasn’t long in straying from the EVERYONE IN THE UNION IS THE SAME line.
The Migrants are on the move again.
https://i.imgur.com/TqDTyPy.jpg
The Greeks aren't happy.
Sir Kier is in then. Meh. He's just another Labour Leader with an odd voice.
It's not like they had any other choice. Bereft of quality.
His hair is disturbing and getting worse. Apparently women go for that though. Women are weird.
I was caught out by his red face. He looked ill.
I thought he got a much easier ride off the media than the others. I know he isn't seen as being as close to the 'Corbyn Project' as the other front-runner[s], but it seemed to me that Rebecca Long-Bailey was expected to justify herself on anti-Semitism more than he was, despite the fact that he was arguably a much more prominent face of the party during the period and still did fuck all about any of it. I think the centrist wanks (and probably himself) always tended to see him as like a contractor in the shadow cabinet (present but not involved), over-hyping him because that then enabled them to see him as the sole 'sensible' one, and that carried over into the contest coverage.
He's an absolute snake of a man, but that's preferable to someone who hates his own country.
Well, even if that were true, there is a lot to hate.
As opppsed to the current PM who just hates vast swathes of his countrymen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Whilst the media are celebrating all of the pro-Corbyn retards being kicked out of the shadow cabinet, they seem to have missed that, such was the success (actual and sarcastic) of the 'Corbyn project', there are only remainer nonces left to choose from, and they are hardly likely to win back the areas necessary to form a government.