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

It was Lisa Chambers and she hadn't a rats. She couldn't answer any direct questions. Shortall destroyed her. Chambers lost her seat and is in the Seanad (which FG promised to Reform). When FFG TDs are too afraid to face the music, they put Chambers on to take the flak. Nobody in government knows when the hospital will be completed or how much it will cost in total. Imagine that, 6 years late and they don't know the final cost. Clowns.

After Mehole's farce in Galway, Varadkar straight out to the media desperately trying to show he's listening to the people's wishes about not joining NATO. That doesn't mean he still can't giving tax payers money to the weapons companies so we can "defend" ourselves at home and meet our "moral obligations" abroad. #anabundanceofweapons

I think SF are losing the anti immigrant vote to the right (Aontu and Independents) and losing votes to the left over their shifting positions on PESCO and PFP, the SCC and their climate policies in light of the nature restoration bill.

SF have voted in favour of the hate speech bill in the Dáil but against it in the Seanad, the ambiguity there might be having an effect.

They’ve also been largely silent on the neutrality debate and on the RTE scandal.

Both Mary Lou and Eoin O’Broin have been missing from the airwaves for a while now, EOB understandably as he’s recovering from a stroke but why is Mary Lou so silent?

Then you have the controversy over the IRA commemoration in Armagh.

Red C are also saying that SF seen a big increase in May on the back of the NI Local Election results and have now returned back to earth.

Lastly, I think FG in particular have stopped continuously attacking SF and have focused on the economy and tax cuts instead and that seems to be working.

Anyone see Jimmy 3 dots ??

I didn’t know that Eoin O’Broin suffered a stroke, I do wish Him a speedy and full recovery. As for Mary Lou, yes, her silence is deafening.

As for the RTÉ shenanigans? I’m guessing here but this poll was conducted prior to the proverbial hitting the fan, so I would guess this poll is ‘RTÉ free’.

Saying that, the RTÉ debacle & how the government handle the fallout will have an enormous effect on the next poll, such is the disgust out there to this misuse of taxpayers money.

Yep this poll would’ve been conducted just before the RTE story hit but SF have been silent on the issue so far.

You don't see the electoral conflict between a support base in working class areas that are regularly having well attended anti-migrant protests / are consistently polling as being very against more immigrants being moved into their areas, and SF party members vocally talking about welcoming more migrants?

They're two diametrically opposed viewpoints.

There are protests all-around the country, they're regularly in the news.

There don't need to be specific anti-immigration candidates running against SF candidates for it to become an issue for the party. If a SF candidate in a working class area espouses a pro-immigration position it will cost them votes - even if theres no anti-immigration candidate to vote for, it will cause people who care about the issue (ie a large % of working class people according to polls) to just not vote for the SF candidate.

Voters staying at home and not voting is already a big problem in working class areas for SF, anything that increases this is hugely problematic.

I hear you but my own gripe with Mary Lou is her silence on the RTÉ debacle. I listen to radio 1 mostly ( one of the joys of having a rubbish radio in my van 😁 ) & I haven’t heard a word from Her on this. Must say Catherine Murphy has been interviewed a fair bit.

I‘ve had a feeling something’s been wrong for a while. 

The pressure must be getting to them, many people have huge expectations on them not just to form the next government but to deliver on housing. 

It’s not a great sign that two of their most important figures are struggling with health issues already, if this tweet was from Joe Biden everybody would be saying he’s not fit for office…

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/6b22e-minister-mcentee-obtains-high-court-order-requiring-the-retention-of-data-for-state-security/

Seems like state overreach to me, I hope during question time in the dail some of the opposition tds ask questions and look for an explanation as to why this is necessary.

Like section 10 of the planned hate speech law, this move come across as guilty until proven Innocent .

Hogan threatened bully boy tactics to force us to pay for water. As we all know it failed. Now I read this yesterday:

UÉ still turn in a profit. Be very hard to believe anything our dictating politicians tell us.

Sindo/Ireland Thinks poll June 30-July 1st

Sinn Fein 31 (-1)

Fine Gael 19 (-1)

Fianna Fail 19 (nc)

Independents/Others 13 (+1)

Social Democrats 6 (nc)

Solidarity-PBP 4 (+2)

Aontu 3 (nc)

Green Party 3 (nc)

Labour 2 (-1)

Sample 1.076, moe 3%

EDIT: I heard on The Week in Politics that the percentages in this poll are the lowest ever for both FG & Labour.

I’m not qualified to say about FG but in Labour’s case, I’d say that they are heading the same way as the PD’s - oblivion. To say AONTÚ are higher than Labour says it all.