Anti-British Xenophobia and Hatred in Ireland

You said Ireland voted for change but 50%+ didn't. You could also include Labour in that as well. We do have the policies we voted for, we just happened to have a lot of votes for FF and FG.

However I would consider it democratic. FPTP tends to stop people voting for policies they want and simply go to tactical voting to avoid who you don't. The US has started churning out election candidates who are most notable for their unpopularity but neither side can move away from their party as FPTP does not allow serious 3rd parties in a region. Northern Ireland has been dominated by not the other party as opposed to any nuanced talk and the UK has a government that most voters did not vote for, Ireland has one most people did.

I mean I agree that I don't want FG and FF in power but I really don't know what you want. Do you want to kick them out on your say so? Do we ignore that people voted for them in large numbers and just chuck out democracy altogether? I mean most people didn't vote Sinn Fein so that is hardly more democratic to just stick them in for the sake of it. Outside of a massive landslide there will be a significant minority in any country that did not vote for the government, indeed for FPTP you will likely get a result that the majority voted against.

You complained about our democratic system and now you seem to be complaining that it gave a democratic result? You don't have to agree with people on FF/FG/Greens but you do have to accept that is how people voted.

The people best able to judge Irish \ English dynamic are people who have lived significant time in both juristictions. A few observations

• Every country in the world has probably a pretty constant proportion of Ass**. A country with 50million will produce more than one of 5 million simple maths.
• Newspaper headlines do not always represent reality and sometimes not even the story underneath.
• It is human nature to love to see the big team \ neighbour beaten \ humbled etc. Irish \ Scots \ Welsh all love beating England and love to see anyone beating them. There are lots of English people who lose seeing England lose especially at cricket. All of us outside Dublin love to see Dublin losing at Bogball.
• The vast vast majority of English \ Irish have absolutely no issue with their neighbour.
• The biggest difference between both nationalities that I see is education levels they are so much higher in Ireland on average.
• As regards politicians I used to think UK politicians were of a higher standard than Irish, especially when they quickly resigned when they were involved in scandals. Watching how brexit unfolded changed all of that especially as regards Conservatives (I used to be a Conservative supporter). Jeremy Corbyn was not any better. They have made Irish Politician all look like world class statesmen in recent years. Brexit is a complete sh** show for England.
• Yes we have had a troubled history with England just like a significant proportion of the world. Likewise many have had a troubled history with French, Spanish, Germans, Chinese, Portughese, Romans, Greeks, Ottomans, Moors, Huns Vandals, CELTS, Vikings etc etc. We need to get over it. We cannot blame todays people for whatever their ancestors did in the past.

Our system is more democratic in that it reflects the political views of the majority.

Are we seeing frustrated SF voters suddenly seeing that FPTP is a preferable system because that would have delivered a SF Dail majority?

The Germans were always more efficient.

German Nazis - since you're identifying a people.

The majority membership of the NSDAP were German.

I did not say that Irish education system best in world, I did not even say in was better than UK system. What I said was on average Irish people are better educted than English. The main reason is participation rates in education particularly 3rd level. It is nothing to do with absolute standard of education system in each country.

A further point on the teaching of history in the respective countries. While yes the English do not study a whole lot of Irish history we focus too much on the English as the sole cause of our woes for 800 years. We never focus on the internal lack of unity \ infighting which prevented us defeating English invaders for hundreds of years after we had invited them in. While today England has a population 10 times than of Ireland, pre famine it was only about twice. Historically we were not always the weakling our history portrays us to be.

You could ask the same question of those who voted for any party, not just Green voters and would still apply in a FPTP system.

I see similarities between SF today and FF of earlier times. I expect SF to call a referendum on replacing multi-seat constituency PR just like FF did in 1959 (3rd amendment), a proposal which was narrowly rejected.