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

The government acquiesced to the Greens and didn't give anything to households. Only businesses got additional benefits - business energy supports etc.

Which most people would agree is completely backwards, but thats what you get with two very pro-business parties (FF&FG) and one militantly environmentalist party that cares little for the damage it does to poorer households (the Greens). Business gets prioritised, households get ignored.

In fairness he was on the

Leo puts his foot in it again.

I cannot speak for FG, but if was up to me I would run him. He’s doing untold damage & surely FG have nothing to lose promoting ( I suspect ) Coveney.

That's an absolutely disgusting comment from Varadkar.

No no, not yet. They need to reap what they sowed further. Another 2 years just to sway all the blinkered.

When FG took over the power swap in 2011 the country was in a bad place. It's arguably much worse now despite all the promises. Housing disaster, Rental crisis, health system crumbling, longest waiting lists, worse trolley crisis, doctors and nurses emigrating, massive national debt, more corruption and cronyism, still no children's hospital or final cost, woeful handling of church abuse survivors (abuse heaped upon abuse), no long term plan for immigration, none of the promised reform delivered etc etc. All on FG.

We will have to endure another 2 years of the 3 unwise men who will then get cushy numbers elsewhere no doubt. So be it.

Oh FFS. Bloody rubbish. Seamus Mallon accurately described the GFA as "Sunningdale for slow learners." It's got nothing to do with disability, rather ignorance - which is a choice. People like SF/IRA who took 30+ years to learn from their mistakes at the cost of thousands of innocent lives. If you want to be governed by those with blood still dripping from their hands then you go you.

He's some man for putting his foot in it.

I'm a FG member, I voted for Leo back in 2017, but he needs to go. He's not good at elections and he's turned out to be a prick.

FG need Paschal Donohoe as leader. Although I think he's off to Europe, so Simon Coveney is probably the next choice.

Worth recalling what SF's stance was in 2010. They wanted us to follow Greece - and further they wanted us to default. That was their policy.

Ask yourself, had this country done that, and became a pariah that couldn't be trusted with other people's money would this country be in the stable financial situation it is today?

The answer is no. It's highly likely we would still be locked out of the markets unable to borrow money and in a very grim place.

At least now we will have money to help fix problems.

Complaining about the current govt, and there is a lot to complain about, should not be license to let the opposition off the hook in my view.

...are you a trained professional such as an educational psychologist, and did you apply the appropriate tests in order to determine this 'informed opinion'?

He managed to "offend" people perpetually looking to be offended.

As for your last sentence I did exactly that. Everything isn't about you you know.

Well of course FF extremely foolishly guaranteed the banks. It was obvious even then that Anglo and Irish Nationwide were hopeless and should have been let go bang. What wasn't known was the size of the blank cheque FF were writing on our behalf. How anyone with at least half a brain has voted for them since that is a mystery.

Very few votes for that in Ireland. What do you think was behind the last-minute SF surge at the last election. Could it have been government proposals to increase the pension age and other attempts at 'prudent financial management'?

I don't need to be an educational psychologist to know that slow learning is not a disability. It's not in the DSM or any other clinical reference that I am aware of.

Regarding, my statement on what I consider "slow learners" and their lack of a disability, I know that statistically a small proportion of people have a diagnosed learning disability and I've met a lot of slow learners from primary to grad school to private sector in multiple countries. I've met people who don't focus, don't care, lack confidence, stopped developing at a young age and couldn't catch up. I've also met people with a diagnosed learning disability such as dyslexia, who are not "slow learners". Honestly if Leo wanted to attack the disabled he would have referred to the disabled and not some colloquial term for dull people.