Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

It seems that group of about 200 middle-aged losers on Twitter that go around commenting on everything and spewing their deeply unhappy hate about everything relating to Irish current affairs have already moved from Leo to Simon. Absolutely tragic creatures. Some of Ireland’s most pathetic men.

Leo decided to give Simon Harris the least important role in the cabinet.

And now suddenly he's about to be Taoiseach.

Nobody in FG wants the job which is very worrying for them. There must be a load of **** to hit the fan and idiot boy Harris is stupid enough to be the mudguard. Only in Ireland could you end with a Taoiseach who never had a proper job in his life...

Certainly not, I worked and lectured in Irish colleges for over a decade, I know exactly what happened there, it was one of the primary reasons I left Academia.

Did Harris even put him forward? The other top contenders are just giving him the job whether he likes it or not 🤣

With FG in turmoil and FF being FF, who is there to vote for?

Both parties have lost all sense of identity in the last few years, largely because the 2020 elections have shown the populace what the sceptics always suspected: they aren't all that different after all.

They seem to be rudderless and lacking guiding principles and only happy when they go after their common foe. The referendum mess was a culmination of trying to be seen to do something while not having a clue how to actually achieve it.

People might have previously voted for them because of specific policy (or that classic "we're an FG/FF family") whereas now all they seem to offer are wishy-washy slogans.

Politicians have always done that, to an extent, but lately it seems these two are afraid to come out strongly on any point for fear of breaking up the government and letting SF in while actually showing how much they really are the same.

I know SF may be growing in support but they'll still have plenty of critics and people who refuse to even share a room with them. The other left parties will never convince enough people to be anything but a coalition partner and I'm seeing more and more Independents pop up, something which is counter-productive for a national government given how mé-féin indies can be.

I struggle to see where a government with a proper agenda and programme is going to come from in the next elections. I expect it'll just be more of this national unity government that doesn't do much except for keep SF out.

FWIW, I live abroad so won't vote but I'm still intrigued as to the path my homeland takes.

only thing that can save fine gael right now is a hard approach to immigration. bad news to some of their liberal supporters on here but it’s the only thing that will save them seats imo.

Ah yes the DIT first year drop out and man whilst minister for heath stated that we have to remember there were 18 previous covids and we didn’t make a vaccine for them is sooo much smarter than me. What an intellectual giant. Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a look in.

Boyd-Barrett is an absolutely awful public speaker. Always seems deeply nervous. It might be because that dead-eyed weirdo, Paul Murphy, is sitting behind him.

The triumph of the incompetent.

An absolute pair of idiots. And the fact taxpayers money pay for them is criminal.

Usually to the backbenches but in reality he has already left the building. Will barely turn up unless numbers are needed to win a vote.

The clever ones will wait in the long grass

Yeah the demise of Labour deserves a thread in itself - I think Ireland got sucked into the whole American approach of stand on your own two feet a little too much - the assumption being everyone has the capacity to look after themselves - free market yada yada - life doesn’t work like that - but I guess in the “good times” people pay little attention to real life issues until they start impacting them personally - I think Labour still have a big role to play in holding govt to account or if in government for making life more tolerable for the poor and the marginalised - Dick Spring for me was probably one of the last great Labour leaders

Hayden is my local TD ( unfortunately). I too am amazed he’s not pictured behind LV in the announcement photos.

I wonder why?