Parties real policies

caffrey

I am trying to get myself informed on parties policies so that i can be well read when it comes to election day. The problem is that going on the websites and reading their policies doesnt really work. They all seem to say the same stuff. We will make sure transport 21 goes ahead etc etc. These "policies" dont give any indication of what the party is really like. they are basically covering all the bases.

What i would like is an unbiased review of parties real policies. Whether party X are fascists in disguise, Party Y are a bunch of hippies etc etc. A good review would include references to previous periods where the parties were in power and had promissed X and not delivered, though anything is good as long as it isnt biassed

Tricity Bendix

An unbiased opinion is an uninformed opinion.

No party contains fascists and no party contains hippies.

All parties contain chancers and gombeens, and all parties contain people of real intelligence and compassion.

I don't think you understand the notion of policies. You say you want to discover their 'real' policies, yet what you really seem to be after is a membership personality profile and a play-by-play of governmental achievements (which, for a starter, wouldn't apply to parties who have never been in power in the 26 such as the Greens, Sinn Féin, & Socialists).

Now, I couldn't be arsed telling you what the people are like, and the only party I know in detail are the progressive democrats, so I'll only be able to answer the second part of your question in relation to one party.

Here is what the PDs promised during the election campaign.

Here is what they agreed to do with Fiann Fáil.

And here is their self-assessment in 2005.

cavedave

the closest I have come to a description of parties actual beliefs is this
http://www.politicalcompass.org/ireland
You can also do a survey to see where you stand.

Now I am going to try a party with any libertarian or even rationalist beliefs.

is_that_so

I think the Clinton quote is uppermost in people's minds - "It's the economy, stupid". Outside of what parties may stand for we do expect them to get that part right.

cavedave

I think the Clinton quote is uppermost in people's minds - "It's the economy, stupid". Outside of what parties may stand for we do expect them to get that part right.

I expect the government to protect my individual rights. Life, free speech, property and a few others. I expect them other then that to in general stay out of my business. No party subscribes to this view.

Grudaire

The fact is no party in Ireland in my opinion has the backbone, or determination to stand for anything that is a risk to being in power.

That's why:
labour is cutting taxes
The PD's are increasing spending
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are identical

If you ask me Sinn Féin and the Greens are the most convincing idealistically, Pity ony "used to" kneecap people. And the Greens will destroy our economy if left alone in power.....

cavedave

That's why:
labour is cutting taxes
The PD's are increasing spending
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are identical

If you ask me Sinn Féin and the Greens are the most convincing idealistically, Pity ony "used to" kneecap people. And the Greens will destroy our economy if left alone in power.....

That is a very good and extremely depressing summation of the situation

Grudaire

I'd like to add that in an ironic twist the Greens are the most economically sound, as the one party who has excepted that growth won't be 4.5% Thus saving us from a deficit buget in the future.... What is the world coming to???