Green Party betrayal?

Stewball

Are the Greens betraying their climate conscious voters by propping up a Fine Fail government.

Is power more important to the Eamon Ryan & co than the climate?

Discuss!

Harry Palmr

A party not in power is a talking shop. The Greens should be in government if they have the opportunity to be so.

Would you prefer to be in opposition voting against policies or in power framing them?

Sell out talk is for students.

Springy Turf

OP, Have you seen the programme for government?

olestoepoke

Stewball wrote: »

Are the Greens betraying their climate conscious voters by propping up a Fine Fail government.

Is power more important to the Eamon Ryan & co than the climate?

Discuss!

Never mind the Green Party what about Meehole Martin and FF's betrayal? That guy would sell his granny for power. the clips of him stating categorically that there will be no grand coalition during the election campaign and then doing a complete 360 is embarrassing.

Paulzx

If you want to effect change you need to be in government. The Greens have no other way to be in government except to prop up a FF or FG government.

They could of course just be pretend politicians like PBP and sit on the sidelines and throw muck in the knowledge that they'll never actually have to make a proper decision in their whole pretend political life.

I'm not overly fond of the Greens but at least they're willing to put themselves ito the firing line

Clareman

olestoepoke wrote: »

Never mind the Green Party what about Meehole Martin and FF's betrayal? That guy would sell his granny for power. the clips of him stating categorically that there will be no grand coalition during the election campaign and then doing a complete 360 is embarrassing.

Half a 360 actually, a complete 180, if he did a 360 he'd be right back where he started looking in the same direction

Loafing Oaf

Harry Palmr wrote: »

A party not in power is a talking shop. The Greens should be in government if they have the opportunity to be so.

Although they don't put it in so many words, that's effectively what they tell voters. They've never expressed regret for going in with FF before, even though it led to their wipeout at the next election.

Edgware

Well PBP, Soc Dems, SF etc didnt "sell" out so they have five years talking ****e about make believe policies that no one will pay any attention to

biko

Stewball wrote: »

Discuss!

I won't do what you tell me.

jim salter

olestoepoke wrote: »

Never mind the Green Party what about Meehole Martin and FF's betrayal? That guy would sell his granny for power. the clips of him stating categorically that there will be no grand coalition during the election campaign and then doing a complete 360 is embarrassing.

"a complete 360" means he is going in the same direction as he was during the election campaign..

I suppose you mean he has done a complete 180.

If anyone believe anything a politician says, you (and the majority of the population deserve what they get) which is being taxed into the grave.

It's a complete F-you to the people who voted.

I sincerely hope the recession is so bad that the parties in power are decimated.

Stewball

biko wrote: »

I won't do what you tell me.

Rage Against The Machine fan?

Podge_irl

I'll never understand the fetish some Irish people/parties have for not being in power. Helps them maintain their ideological purity I guess.

Galwayguy35

Betrayal?

More like a Green Party wet dream because they got just about everything they were looking for.

Zebra3

Podge_irl wrote: »

I'll never understand the fetish some Irish people/parties have for not being in power. Helps them maintain their ideological purity I guess.

Maybe politicians should just make less grandstanding statements.

Maybe some honesty.

Edgware

Podge_irl wrote: »

I'll never understand the fetish some Irish people/parties have for not being in power. Helps them maintain their ideological purity I guess.

Thet get to feed from the trough without the responsibility of filling it.