Do you want a general election now?

There are plenty of independents out there, you don't have to vote for any one particular party. My point here is that people will vote for one particular party, regardless of what they do or do not!

SF were pretty much tied with FF & FG after the last election, had massive public support and were given all the time in the world to form a government, they failed completely and have accomplished nothing for Irish voters since then, voting for them was a total waste of a vote.

They were begging FF or FG to join with them for a finish FFS.

From my point of view id vote FG again in the morning, people give out but they have done a great job of rebuilding our economy after the Tiger crash (SF wouldn't have gotten into bed with all the big MNCs and handed out tax breaks etc) and did a great job during covid also, the housing sh!tshow now is largely because our economy is so strong and people have good jobs, if our graduates were still emigrating and unemployment still high there would be plenty of houses.

Plus lets be honest electing a Terrorist sympathising party into power is going to hurt us internationally and economically, it'll definitely make things with the Brexit agreement in the North worse for a start.

Strange that eh? One might almost think that was the only realistic way they could form a government...

SF will only get into power with either FF or less likely FG the numbers are so spread out with far too many independents and small parties to form a viable government . They may well be the biggest next time but will be way off the 80 plus that is needed .Same old same old after the election next time round . Little point in an election now .

'Various others' would have had to involve most of the independents, many of whom are quite conservative and would be no more likely to support an SF-led government than Paul Murphy would be to support an FF- or FG-led one.

Why do you think FF and FG were so keenly encouraging SF to pursue the formation of a government in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election? Because they knew it was never a realistic proposition and SF would only make themselves a laughing stock chasing after the likes of Noel Grealish and Michael Lowry.

Here's one of SF's wiser heads recognising this reality in the aftermath of the election

Why would FF and FG encourage SF to form a government in 2020? Maybe because it would be better if someone else had to deal with Covid? No party is going to be popular having to make the hard decisions during the pandemic. I really hope SF have an absolute ****-sandwich to deal with when the eventually get in, not as bad as the property bubble collapse, but something that means they have to make hard decisions.

I’m voting yes only because I want shut the SF, SD and PBP loudmouths. It’s time for them to sink or swim.

If they sink, I hope that some new parties come in and rip up the virtue signalling rule book. Amalgamate the ridiculous amount of NGOs that all do the same thing, make working the lower paid jobs more worthwhile than not working, tackle crime and punishment properly, sort out the public service and put all that money paid to middle management pen pushers back to the frontline staff.

If they swim then there’s no harm done

Im just tired of the status quo tbh from all parties.

Yes I want them out, housing is an absolute disaster and all their policies have done is add fuel to the fire by subsidizing the market. They left the housing policy to the private sector and now that is slowing down due to costs, the idiots were warned developers will only build property that is profitable. Now we have crackpot schemes like giving developers 144k towards an apartment build with no questions of affordability.

Totally agree with you.

I meant what does "best boys in Europe" mean?

I like to see an election just before Leo is due to take over again.

Martin was wise to take first term as it's always a possibility that the government won't go full term.

Personally I think there are enough people voting for SF to allow them form a government next time but I'm very much hoping they will then be shown up as the bluffers they are and will crash and burn at the next election.

The realist in me knows that what you said is so true 😂