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The accelerating fall in Sinn Féin support

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    #1562
    Clo-Clo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭Clo-Clo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122252031#Comment_122252031

    They seem very slow on taking down the posters, which is not a good idea because they have become the target for some inventive people.

    In our area, FF/FG/etc all had them down by the Sunday, a couple of Independents and SF are all that is left

    I guess the poster hangers are a bit depressed



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    #1563
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    €150 fine per poster still up after Friday. They can afford it. 🙄



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    #1564
    Finty Lemon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    The big lesson for SF in all this could lie in the fate of Chris McManus in Midlands NW. He his the archetypal 'bait and switch' candidate that party HQ are so intent on pushing on the Irish people. An outstanding mediocrity, to borrow a phrase, Chris was co-opted to the EU parliament in 2020 to replace Matt Carthy. So why did party HQ pick him?

    His DNA is IRA and SF, with his brother having been shot and killed on manoeuvres in the 70s, and his father having served as Chair of SF and the hunger strike committees in the 1980s. The party went for blood nepotism all the way. He tried talking agriculture and social justice in his tenure, but it was clear that why he was handed the position. A major, major flop was the inevitable result.

    SF still believe they can get away with the 'terror in tweed' candidates, which speaks to the suspicion that despite all the posturing on housing and justice, they remain an insular, single-issue party. Quinlivan making zero headway in Limerick is evidence of the same point.

    SF can play all the progressive electoral games they want but you can see clearly when given a sniff of a chance they always plump for a regressive option. ROI voters aren't buying it, which ironically cements the feeling of a detachment from NI.

    Aiming high? Shooting themselves in the foot more like.



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    #1565
    blanch152
    Registered Users Posts: 27,675 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122259626#Comment_122259626

    Some very good points. Once the novelty wears off, and there is no big NI issue (black and tans commemoration), ordinary voters look at the SF line-up and think that's a bit weird.



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