FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3 - Threadbanned User List in OP

I am reminded about the stunt Enda Kenny pulled when he went for a walkabout around Merrion Square to see homeless people in December 2015. I think it was in response to a homeless man being found dead in a doorway. Of course he brought the press with him and was sure to be seen talking to homeless people. He said at the time that he was shocked, appalled etc etc and that there was no reasons for people to be homeless. Enda had been a TD for nearly 30 years in Dublin. People started asking why he had never noticed the homeless problem before despite 30 years of going in and out of Dublin. That's Fine Gael folks.

Well this is an analysis but not an incontestable one. An FG strategist would probably respond along these lines:

A lot will go elsewhere though. I'd rather vote for a party I'm pretty sure will fcuk me rather than a party who have been fcuking me for 10 years.

Sound very similar to that time he set up that Inner City working group and went for a walk about in Cumberland Street after there was a shooting in the flats there and as usual as soon as the attention went elsewhere nothing happened. A flat complex I know well as it is where my grandmother lived and my mother grew up. It has been plagued by poverty and drug problems for decades. It is, not sure if they are still open, the location of what my mother called the penny dinners were people down on their luck could get a meal.

I'm not a Fan either but Wow he thew the cat amongst the Pidgeons, belatedly perhaps but nonetheless delighted someone has spoken up apart from opposition 😉

I mean it's hard to argue that FG and FF have been right wing or conservative in their time in power. Socially, they're very much liberal and pro immigration, and economically, they've ballooned our public expenditure. So as someone who would vote for a right wing party, I don't see that when I look at FG anymore.

If I'm voting for parties that are left wing anyway, I might as well vote for the one that hasn't fcuked me over yet and give them a chance to.

Leo can take a running jump, his party has been in power since 2011 and built nothing. The housing crisis is very much of their doing or more precisely doing nothing. Housing for all is another failure so far, we have left our housing needs to the private sector who will only build what they deem profitable. We needed a semi state building company years ago and all we have done is waste money subsidizing the market, its ridiculous. You can blame covid, Ukraine etc but they had one major problem domestically to make progress with and we are nowhere.

James Lawless twisting in the wind on RTÉ News at One.

Well as I've said I'm convinced this is largely a pose angry right-wingers adopt on the Internet. I can't believe many real-world voters with serious right-conservative convictions would take such a nihilistic self-harming step.

President Higgins said yesterday what had to be said and you will have noticed the government supporters staying silent. That silence says so much and as for FF sources saying Higgins is talking about 10 years of FG government, have they forgotten that FF has supported FG since 2016.

Also it has already been said that if SF had said what President Higgins did the usual suspects on here and the government would be up in arms. It's great to see the government put in their place and they are anxiously worrying about what President Higgins might do or say next.

He was spot on and spoke with more conviction than I have heard any politician talk about housing. The people of this country are realizing what residential property should be, its a home not an investment or asset. It was left to the investment market and shock horror they will only build what they deem profitable, its already happening planning is drying up and the developers are putting the brakes on developments as they are worried about how profitable it will be. Now we want give €144k to developers per apartment with no limits on affordability, I'd laugh but its so **** serious now. FF/FG have lost control and need to go ASAP.

Housing for All the bill that was supposed to solve it all is nothing. The state need to address the supply and the only way to do that is the state build homes. No more developer led nonsense like Help to Buy and Shared Equity which are demand measures that are only fueling this affordability problem.

People have to take some of the blame as well. Remember the Celtic Tiger when property became a commodity and folks were property speculators. Every lunch time would be someone saying how much their house had gone up. I can remember before the Celtic Tiger people would rarely discuss how much their house had gone up and how much they would make if they sold it.

I mean I'll probably vote Renua if they've a representative in the constituency, as they're the only right wing party, but to me FG have not been right wing at all for the last 10 years so why vote for them. If they want to go to an anti open immigration and low day to day public spending, I'd love it but they're proven to not be that.

Most likely, i'll continue my own voting method of the slaps system. 1 for the person i only want to slap once, 10 for the person i want to slap 10 times. Only way to choose when they're all bad options.

If that's the case, the government lose their majority and have to start relying on chancers like Lowry.

I sure am glad President Higgins spoke. All the usual government defenders have gone back to hiding under their rocks.

I can't wait to see the defending and deflecting on this.