Anyone voting for these minor parties?

mikemac

I was looking around on wikipedia and found a list of Irish political that I didn't even know existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Ireland

Not all of these have candidates for the general election, but it'd be interesting to know if anyone of boards thought they'd support these parties.
Maybe a lot of people never knew of their existence.

Communist Party of Ireland
Christian Solidarity Party
Irish Republican Socialist Party
Republican Sinn Fein
Socialist Workers Party
Workers Party
Irish Monster Raving Loony Party

oscarBravo

I didn't know there was an IMRLP; the rest I'd heard of. A former teacher of mine stood for the CSP once. Nutters.

ferdi

People Before Profit Alliance FTW

Dirk Gently

ferdi wrote:

People Before Profit Alliance FTW

the S.W.P ???

E92

Republican Sinn Fein are the party which was responsible for the 'sucessful' protest against the English playing in Croke Park this year(if you call sucessful promising to have 150 demonstraters out there on the day and having a 'colossal' 50 people in the end. All of a sudden Sinn Fein look like a very credible party(compared to them obviously) www.rsf.ie

The others got mentioned on this thread(most of them are even worse than SF, quite an achievment, and I mean much worse),the Christian Solidarity Party has out of date views(well their name says a lot), as do SF IMO, they've had their mention, now lets move on, apart from the Irish Monster Raving Loony Party which is something else(a complete piss take on loads of matters) and the Commies, well the name says it all doesnt it?

stovelid

clown bag wrote:

the S.W.P ???

Think PBP may be them alright. Can anybody clarify. Rule of thumb is usually to check the posters. They usually have the same sober 70's font and layout (as behoves struggle and all that)

I have given the Worker's Party secondary or tertirary votes in the past, OP.

zepp

911truth movement. IN North Kerry and Cork South Central
http://www.irishelection.com/05/morgan-stack-interview/

is_that_so

zepp wrote:

911truth movement. IN North Kerry and Cork South Central
http://www.irishelection.com/05/morgan-stack-interview/

Hmm

From his interview

"Would not a Dail with 166 independent T.D.s who were free to vote as their conscience dictated provide a much more representative form of government?" :rolleyes:

lostexpectation

I saw the father rights and responsibilities party 3 candidates, fair amount of indepedents around, christion nation or something like that, immigration control platform, I hate they don't list all the parties, groups and ind, its all lumped in as others even on the web where plenty of room to list them all.

http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=8761
http://www.electionsireland.org/results/general/30thdail/candidates.cfm

Christian Solidarity party (http://comharcriostai.org/ lol) oh yes and the PDs :P

Dirk Gently

stovelid wrote:

Think PBP may be them alright. Can anybody clarify.

Yup, pbp are indeed yet another (yawn) "I can't believe it's not the swp" party.

oscarBravo

is_that_so wrote:

"Would not a Dail with 166 independent T.D.s who were free to vote as their conscience dictated provide a much more representative form of government?" :rolleyes:

Actually, to an extent I think that's a good point. The party whip concept is (to my mind) the single greatest impediment to democracy in this country.

is_that_so

To a very small extent. Like ourselves politicians need guiding and the use of conscience rarely comes into it, although I think there is a case to be made for some votes where TDs should be free to exercise that conscience. The main problem with it is the chaos that would ensue and the fact that TDs are not always necessarily after what is good for the public.

And who would get to be Taoiseach and form a government?

I think the whip is a necessary evil in a democracy, after all we do vote for consistent ideas which is what political parties give us, but there should be checks of some kind to counterbalance it.

Steve_o

micmclo wrote:

Irish Monster Raving Loony Party

That's hardly real?????

I don't know who i'm voting for yet, i'm gonna stay on the fence for another while!

oscarBravo

is_that_so wrote:

The main problem with it is the chaos that would ensue and the fact that TDs are not always necessarily after what is good for the public.

I can't see that a political party's aims are necessarily any better for the public than those of any given TD.

is_that_so wrote:

And who would get to be Taoiseach and form a government?

Whoever is elected to do so by the Dáil, as at present. My issue isn't with the fact that TDs generally vote along party lines; it's that - to all intents and purposes - they have no choice whatsoever but to do so.

is_that_so wrote:

I think the whip is a necessary evil in a democracy, after all we do vote for consistent ideas which is what political parties give us, but there should be checks of some kind to counterbalance it.

I think the very existence of political parties provides as much stability as is required. As it stands, once there's a majority government, there's relatively little point anyone even showing up at Dáil debates.

InFront

Do any of the above parties have any realistic chance of getting a parliamentary seat?

brianthebard

Socialist party maybe other than that they are all outdated or too radical in whatever way to have anything other than a token following.

InFront

A bit of me hopes The Irish Monster Raving Loony Party get a chance.