Simon Harris, the TikTok Taoiseach

Simon knew he was becoming Taoiseach for a considerable period. He had all Easter to prepare himself for Dail questions and other EU meetings where the bureaucrats do all the work. Not showing up to the Dail today was rather silly. I think we will get a great degree of amusement and bewilderment from our short reign Taoiseach.

I hadn't thought of that..balls these threads will be so boring now with no posts from the virtuous trying to save the racists and homophobes from themselves. Will have to power up the playstation to survive death by boredom

What evidence do you have of that ?

He was not Taoiseach until yesterday afternoon. If, before that, he had acted as though he was, I imagine he would have been lambasted by plenty of people. A new Taoiseach appearing in the Dail in Day One might suit the Opposition and give the media stuff to write/talk about, but in reality would be of no value in terms of holding him to account. The approach taken by SF and others today suggests that either they don't really understand the job of the Taoiseach and Ministers or they are just playing to the gallery for a headline or two.

Yes reading back in the thread it’s me in melt down 🤣🤣

Go on tell us another one of your “predictions” 🤦‍♂️

Yes they should ignore the new leader of Ireland so you are happy. Never mind all the people that are actually interested in hearing about him as he is the Taoiseach. The media should just cater for you

Stupid media, stupid stupid media

Leo becoming Taoiseach was a huge deal for Ireland. Trying to down play it now is a little embarrassing to be honest

This coming from someone who never voted for him but at least I could see what a huge change it was for Ireland. Some of course didn't accept it and hence why we had years on online racial and homophobic attacks on Leo.

Maybe you could explain what "competence or suitability for the top job" you want to see and who is currently your choice?

Mickey Martin - “These are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.”

MM's only goal, as I've noted before, was to NOT be the FF leader who wasn't Taoiseach.

That's it. Nothing else. Just to be able to say he "led" the country. It's also why he did away with any notion of difference between him/FF and their old "frenemy" through firstly Confidence and Supply, and then outright Coalition.

Of course this became even more painfully evident when he effectively abdicated the running of the country to Tony Holohan and NPHET.

Because thats what it's been since Leo took over

I think you will find after the last election covid hit, then SF disappeared and managed to negotiate terms with not a single party in Ireland.

FG after the election said they would go into opposition, all of this is easily found. What is not easily found, at the time, was anyone from Sinn Fein as they went into hiding.

Taking over the country with covid looming was not something Sinn Fein wanted to do, easier to flip flop all over the place from the opposition bench's and be a total disaster in Northern Ireland

I didn't throw anything out of pram

You seem to think all TD's are incompetent, it is natural to assume you think then you are better than all of them, so run yourself and show them all how it's done?

Now this of course is tongue in cheek, like most people online it is all bluster, once you suggest going to become a TD etc they high tail it away. Like you quickly decided to do

Sorry I meant to reply to the other poster about GE and posters up, quote them

I agree America for St. Patrick's Day with shamrock is needed but not everywhere else, how many politicians were abroad this St. Patrick's Day on the tax payers money on wasted trips and not to mention their big carbon footprint

@Clo-Clo I think you will find after the last election covid hit, then SF disappeared and managed to negotiate terms with not a single party in Ireland. FG after the election said they would go into opposition, all of this is easily found. ~~ see provided link below.

SF had no chance of forming a coalition of the below.

Sinn Féin stated an intention to form a broad left coalition; combined, left-leaning parties have 67 seats (37 Sinn Féin, 12 Green, 6 Labour, 6 Social Democrats, 5 Solidarity–PBP, and 1 Independents 4 Change), but other parties of the left have raised doubts about such a prospect. In addition, Sinn Féin would have needed the support of at least 13 independents (out of 19 total) to form a government.[94][96] ~~ Link

Even if such was established, I doubt it would have survived long in government.

The other option suggested at the time was another election. But the current FF/FG/Green was formed to avoid that over the fear that SF would run more candidates.

SF never tried, none of the parties listed came to agreement, even after SF met the Greens first and PBP sent a begging letter for them to come out of hiding

So, sorry but Sinn Fein ran for the hills once they seen covid.

I do like people who can't use crayons on boards so have to use bold instead. Not sure what they think it gains