The decline of SF?

In a general election under Varadkar six months ago, that would have been the outcome. Things are different now.

Sinn Fein have been exposed as the Emperor with no clothes when it comes to policies. The people will be looking for this so-called "change" and they will see nothing.

Laughable ideas on 300k houses in Dublin while their former councillor is selling his for 800k.

Two parties are hurting from being in coalition - FF and the Greens.

If SF perform in a GE it will come down to how much either FF and the Greens (not so much them as they won't have MEPs or many TDs) want to stop the rot and change direction.

When the dust settles the fact is the FF and FG share of the vote is still in decline, in GE's and LE's. The only thing that has declined for SF is their opinion poll position. They look like they have added an MEP and they have increased their LE vote share, all on a bad day for them.

O’Broin mentioned several times he was an author. Given how arrogant he is I assumed he had done some research on housing and it was the subject of one of his published works. Nope, just books on lefty bollixology. My dog is as qualified to formulate housing policy as Eoin.

He is an author of a book that nobody has read, even the SF supporters who constantly say he is an author.

Eoin would destroy all housing in the space of 6 months if he was in charge, he is another one of the most incompetent TD's in SF, sitting behind Mary Lou in the Dail shouting when it's not his turn to talk seems to be his show piece, after that it crumbles to pieces

Nobody thinks SF are in government

Everyone knows now that SF are a huge part of the problem with housing

When a FG member was caught taking brides to remove planning objection, they got removed from the party and will never be in it again

When SF run a campaign for years to block housing for political gain they reward the politicians

SF are so incompetent they don't even realise how this looks

Change 😂

https://www.independent.ie/news/mary-lou-mcdonald-among-objectors-to-1600-apartment-build-to-rent-development-in-her-dublin-constituency/40802647.html

We shall see - I expect the issue of FGs length of tenure is going to be a substantial issue come what may. To put it in context, one of our children was becoming a teenager in 2011, asking questions about the election and commented at the time that all they'd ever known since birth was a Fianna Fáil government. All they've known since is Fine Gael governments and now in their late 20s.

Put it like that and you can be quite sure, many will conclude FGs time is up and that's that.

boom

quick look over at that

Does the playbook ever change

Is there any falsehoods? Nope.

The majoroty of folks in the country are still doing very well financially/socially etc.

There are unhappy people whom would like to see change, but overall, they would appear to still be a minority.

For every person that deicdes that FGs time is up, there are another 2 or 3 that are happy with the status quo & want FFG to remain in power.

You only need to look at the local elections to see that.

FG have more first preference votes than SF, the Greens, Labour and the Soc Dems put together.

I think anyone that's already bought a house and has a decent career is happy with the status quo.

Particularly when the leader of SF says house prices will be €300,000.

If you look at a population pyramid, there's a bulge of people over 35.

The majority of these people have settled down and bought a house.

100%, the vast majority under the age of 35 are clearly not happy with the status quo. I'd assume most here who are saying "things are fine" are homeowners.

The 300k Dublin houses was not the wisest of statements and I'd like to think MMLD's roll back last week was actually a clarification that this should be the "affordable housing" cost.

"Affordable housing" under the current model would cost myself and my partner (on decent wages) 415k in Swords with the Government having a 10% stake in it (not First Home Scheme). This surely cannot be seen as suitable "affordable housing".

The majoroty of folks in the country are still doing very well financially/socially etc.

There are unhappy people whom would like to see change, but overall, they would appear to still be a minority.

For every person that decides that FGs time is up, there are another 2 or 3 that are happy with the status quo & want FFG to remain in power.

If the majority are happy with the status quo as stated above (2/3) then yes a lot of people would appear to think that things are fine.

Exactly.

Home ownership is 70% in Ireland, very slightly about the european average.

Most people here have a good standard of living and the employment opportunities in Ireland, and especially Dublin, are world class.

There are problems, yes. But there are a lot of positives and there are a lot of people that are doing very well.

Household wealth has doubled over the last decade and stands at over a trillion euro. Thats some figure for a population of 5.3 or 5.4 million.

This is where as stated earlier it all comes back to the Us vs Them, "Haves vs the Have nots" human mentality.

I'm not going to assume that 70% of people are completely happy with the status quo as there's probably a decent % that have adult children living at home with them that they wish could have their own place but there's a lot more home owners voting for the status quo than renters/people living at home.