Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

Christ on a bike, don't tell me Boo-Boo Harris is going to be Taoiseach? You could quite literally shave a chimp, stick it in a suit and it would do a better job than that utter, utter charlatan.

Ask Liz Truss how that worked out for her?

People want the top job for the prestige. But there is little prestige with taking the job and getting wiped out a few months later, it leaves you a laughing stock not a man of prestige.

Politicians choosing their timing is nothing new whatsoever.

Financial storm clouds were already gathering when Brian Cowen took over FF leadership in 2008: do you think that is why nobofy else put themselves forward, or was it because the other 'contenders' knew he would have blown them away? And do you think Cowen regrets reaching for the crown at that stage, even though he could have foreseen his tenure was likely to be brief and ill-starred?

If Coveney in particular thinks he is 'keeping his powder dry' and intends to run for leader at a more opportune moment then I think that's a bad call. He's yesterday's man now, will never be a serious contender again...

Paddy Cosgrove is a tool box of the highest order, his exstaff will tell you all you need to know and I think at this stage very person who has been involved with him brought him to court, or close to it

He had no issue been best mates with FG and Leo till Leo didn't give him the keys to Dublin which he wanted, which would have been a disaster for tax payers but the way Since then his vendetta has got stranger and stranger by the day

A full thread about him and even him fighting with his poor neighbours now when he bought a house in Donegal, no harm if the guy left Ireland for good

Harris will take the same electoral hiding for FG that was due for Varadkar until he ran away. He's getting coronated because no one wants to be the leader to take the flak.

Will the electorate somehow warm to Harris in a way they clearly did not with LV? Highly unlikely as Harris comes across as a transition year student on work experience and he's been there for every cut, every incompetence and every piece of nastiness associated with the LV era.

Its that there's no consequences for anything and a small but increasing number of students are at a frankly incredible level of laziness, petulance and dont see the pointness etc etc

they mirror the way society has evolved and system has to bend to that to some degree, you cant actually expect much of a standard from them now, its the teachers have the standards now.......I may not agree with everything that poster has to say (I mean that factually as I haven't read much of anything else they have to say) but the JC has been dumbed down massively and I assume the LC will be to some degree as well.....

its all part of a trend of not being an adult with personal responsibility until you reach increasingly older ages and a certain cohort of the population having no responsibilities or meaningful consequences at all if they are too much trouble to deal with and are useful as an income generator for other cohorts of society while getting handouts from yet another cohort.........

Tony Blair used to make a million a month, he was able to quote 330k for a 20 minute speech. Go look at the likes of Gordon Brown and see what they make per speech.

A former PM only making 250k a year makes my point more than it does yours, Liz Truss is bargain bucket relative to her peers, all because of her timing.

The original point was about why some people didn't want the job now, why they would wait for better timing, and somebody said politicians would always take the job if they could.

Showing that Truss made a balls of it just reinforces my point made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgLoFEU5mI8

This sums up Leo and the classism on this site/country perfectly:

Emmet Kirwan on the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One - YouTube

Well there aren't any tents in Greystones, or hotels or nursing homes converted are there? And seriously if he does nada about law and order I'll be raging. Oh and what about the Free Speech thing? If we are silenced that will be ominous from my perspective anyway. He can TikTok away and no one will be able to say a thing back.

Varadkar was supposed to be the man who represented ordinary working people, but he tossed that away when he started trying to pivot FG to the left.

Not really confident about Simon Harris, but am prepared to give him a chance. If he continues to take FG down the Varadkar path then they're going to be destroyed come elections.

do you think that’s impressive? That he dropped out of a journalism degree and became a minister by 27?

Because I think it’s a shocking example of the sickness of our democracy and it’s no wonder the country is in such a shambles if that is the caliber of candidate we are putting into high office. No life experience. No demonstrated ethic. No demonstrated achievement. Just an opinionated young fella full of notions of himself who talked and tweeted himself into government.

A no contest also creates a vacuum over Easter. The FF TDs and councillors will be grumbling at having to vote for another FG TD as Taoiseach. Voting for a man who brought down the previous government when he was Health minister.