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Who will you vote in the next election?

  • 11-09-2022 1:22am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 15


    Interested to see...

    Post edited by Seth Brundle on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Galway West

    1. Catherine Connolly (IND)

    2. Niall O'Tuaithail (SD)

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,161 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    You start. It's your thread.


    A list of candidates would be a help too, if you can manage it.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,337 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Which ever candidate and / or party that has the soundest plans for the economy overall per my preferences... I'm not married to any specific party or candidate per say and review and evaluate at every election (based on history and future plans).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,186 ✭✭✭893bet


    Not a green.


    Not a Sinn Fein.


    doesn’t leave a lot. I feel an independent vote is almost like spoiling a vote.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,931 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    left top of the list, ffg as far down as possible, probably greens, labour, pbp, sf, ind, ffg..... or something like that...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Not SF

    SD if they have a candidate or maybe Greens



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Hardly. Independent TDs can get highly disproportionate advantage for their constituencies, if the numbers require a Government to court their vote.

    Of course there is the risk they won't be needed at all. But the risk is no less than your first preference ending up in the main opposition Party.

    I shall be voting FG, then probably Labour and SD, im some order, followed by FF or independents, if their manifestos meet my priorities of maintaining steady economic progress and a fair social contract.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭eurokev


    Aontu



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,298 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    At a 50th birthday party this weekend, most of the people there in their 40s and 50s and have done well in life.


    FG and FF are in big trouble and it's all down to housing.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,931 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    it ll be interesting to see how this middle ground will vote, as i suspect many of their off spring aint doing too well...

    ffg are in serious trouble, their fundamental beliefs and ideologies are starting to collapse, and theyre unwilling to admit it....



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyone atal but the government,I can't abide no personal responsibility and the outright lies being told to the public


    Looks between disrespectful to outright contempt for the electorate,I doubt anything can be worse than this mess has been over last few years



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    It hasn't been a mess. It's been very challenging, with a series of generational global crises condensed into a few short years. 99% of people in this Country are in good shape. And more importantly, so is their employment.

    The choice will be, the divil you know, or the divil with the private army and the shadow ruling Council.

    I've already made my choice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,931 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    sadly some do actually believe this, but reality is telling a far different story, thankfully this is starting to show at ballot boxes around the world, but some are tending towards the extremes in expressing their anger and sheer frustration at such beliefs....



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think they just stumble from crisis to farce tbh....


    if you middle management out of any factory in the town,and installed em in as cabinet with access to the endless resources and advisors this government has....

    I don't think for one second,they would come and tell you patronising nonsense such as:

    'open fridge for shorter periods' in an energy crisis that has grown out of control under em....it was flagged 12 months ago people were struggling with bills,and nothing substantial was done,


    we stumbled into a crisis,not of the government making,but one that is magnitudes worse than it should be



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,931 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    our governments have been warned for years about the serious lack of investment occurring in our energy systems and networks, it was chosen to largely ignore this advice, id call that a monumental governmental failure....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,474 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    Not FF or FG



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Our energy systems and networks are good,I do alot of help with complance for sub-contractors to ESB


    It's a network that is religiously tested and upgraded with a servible plan to maintain it....it's one of the few areas of state that can serve the populace and a credit to semi-state ownership


    The fact the government have put an insurmountable load onto the system with data centres (which afaik employ <1000 people) is a level of mismanagement that the ESB should also take responsibility for not flagging publically



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    I’ll never vote FF, my memory ain’t short.

    SF do have some talent but are a generation from getting my vote. Good republicans and all that.

    The Greens will get something but not No. 1

    No independent candidates of note in my constituency.

    As long as the Soc Dems can’t decide who actually leads their party the won’t be considered

    It’ll probably be a FG vote from me next time out. Best of the bunch in my constituency.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,931 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    ...many governmental energy consultants would completely disagree with you, leading them to become far more vocal over the years, as theyve realised, theyre being largely ignored, expanding our fossil fuel reliance was never ever going to work, gas is not a 'transitory source', its time for us to move on from fossil fuels, we ve known this for decades, yet here we are, experiencing a significant international fossil fuel market exposure lead inflation, again, we were warned!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭MakersMark


    Unfortunately the only choice for middle class taxpayers who work is FFG again.


    SF will certainly hoover up the idle voters.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,931 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    strongly disagree there, theres many others to chose from, many have already been mentioned here already...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭Brucie Bonus


    Taxpayers who have to move back in with their parents, change counties or depend on state subsidies for a roof over their head are likely upset with FF/FG and their attitude that anyone in need is idle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    FFG...only because the alternatives are worse!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    I am a middle class worker and voted FG for many years. Never again. I cannot abide their dishonesty and incompetence since 2011. Both FF and FG only serve their own greed/interests now. Housing and Health are a disgrace and corruption/cronyism/waste is endemic.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Don't mind about around the World.

    We're talking about choices for the next Irish election. Tell me why I'm wrong about the situation in Ireland. Be specific.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven


    The National Party



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,982 ✭✭✭billyhead


    It definitely won't be SF anyway. I don't vote for terrorists. Anyway they'll destroy the economy. I'll probably vote for the Soc Dems, Labour and an Independent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,232 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    "Anyone atal but the Government". Are you serious ? Look at the Opposition, you think a mishmish of those would make a good Government ?

    Post edited by TheRiverman on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    On the basis that the OP is just another Shinner bot trying to stir up a 'debate'.

    I will vote for ABSF - Anyone But Sinn Féin..



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭kabakuyu


    Not made up my mind yet, but the Greens will get fck all from me, they have failed miserably need to be consigned to the dustbin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,518 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    It's a good question to be asking the larger parties - will they allow independents to get a highly disproportionate advantage for their constituences, given that it comes at the expense of other constituencies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭Brucie Bonus


    So spite? Fair enough. The OP literally gave no opinion.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    But you're still not telling anyone in your own thread who you'll vote for! 🙄



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Then who will YOU vote for? You started the thread and contributed nothing yourself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭Brucie Bonus


    Well on our way to our own crash despite FF blaming Lehmans. Generational debt and a bankrupt country where those who helped cause it were bailed out and given sweet deals by NAMA. A housing crisis made worse year on year for over a decade, with brief respite due to a global pandemic. A refusal to try anything different in housing policy and favourable tax rates for property investment companies. A health crisis were slaintecare is left on the shelf. Moriarty left to gather dust. Rampant cronyism shrugged off as 'lessons learned'. The NCH billions and rising. The ordinary working tax payer looked down upon like its all their fault.

    None of these issues are anything to do with brexit, covid, the 6 month old war in Ukraine, inflation or the Queen popping her clogs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,298 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    If that is how they view it then both parties are even more out of touch, especially with their core voter base, and especially large segments of middle class Dublin.


    One example of the people at the weekend is a man in a senior finance role in a large company, he was paying 3k a month for a rental while work on his house was going up, he described Dublin as a failed city, they all had stories that were insane.


    FF and FG are going to get a hot reception in middle class Dublin. Will their combined vote top SFs in middle class Dublin, unlikely.


    That's purely down to how FF and FG have handled housing and the scale of the problem.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    The OP is a new reg, probably today and launches another of these election type threads.

    Anyone who reads here sees that this is current standard SF tactic on places like boards - keep stirring the pot and getting people to argue/ rant on about how bad FF/FG etc etc are, with the unstated idea that SF is a real alternative. You see the same on other platforms.

    What we hear little of is actual SF policy, that can be debated. No it's all negative campaigning - to keep stating how poor the present crowd are.

    I've never voted FF in my life and only very occasionally FG, but will taking a long hard think this time as to how best to use this vote.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 15 unkown22


    Stop with your conspiracies you nut. I don't agree with SF at all.



  • Registered Users Posts: 15 unkown22


    That's my own business. I didn't force anyone to reply to this thread.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,298 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    I think the real question here is do FG and FF care about re-election and see a long term future for their parties?


    If the Dup were to run here they would probably get more than FG or FF, if they made an effort, hyperbole but the problem is that FG and FF are choosing to isolate themselves from political reality, they are the ones lining SF for 35 to 40% of the vote and much more in Dublin.

    In large parts of Dublin, North and South of the Liffey the big question is will SF run enough candidates to make full use of their vote,


    Will FF completely collapse in Dublin and will FG have more than a token presence there? Will Varadkar have any chance of a seat north of the River?


    All self inflicted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭deirdremf


    Are you absolutely sure the Greens and Labour are leftwing?

    A lot of people would disagree with that suggestion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Weird! Okay fair enough. But it's not the way a Boards discussion usually works.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Then who the hell do you agree with? and personal abuse suggests he was right about you,



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Mod: erm, please read fully the rules before thinking of posting in this forum again!

    Thread closed!



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    TBF it's as likely a FGbot,they usually a flurry launch these type threads after they have a thinkin



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