Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Why would they produce a policy document on an extremely contentious issue while there are protests and arson attacks taking place? It’s because they knew they had to. Their voter base is deserting them.

Listen, I’m in favour of Mary Lou remaining as the figurehead leader for as long as possible. She’s tired, lacking in energy, sneering, no grasp of detail, incredibly condescending, and just systematic of the wider malaise in SF.

SF supporters think it was an unfair interview. Almost everyone else thinks it was a robust and probing interview with the opposition leader on a policy they launched yesterday. It’s the sort of thing that other politicians are subjected to on a daily basis. Her handling of it was appalling though. She also accused Bryan Dobson (!) of being rude last year. She isn’t able for tough interviews. Her place is peering out over her glasses as she reads a speech written by some advisor.

 Almost everyone else thinks it was a robust and probing interview with the opposition leader on a policy they launched yesterday.

utter nonsense from the get go.

Listened

To be fair,PBH interjected like a moderator wanting you stay on topic and she waved the you're pro government stick quite agressively

She didnt have a cost for her plans and no idea of the countries to add to the safe list

Total waffle on finding illegals who should have left

'I'm not the minister' the excuse for not costing it

Jeesus mary and joseph

If this radio interview is the way forward for everything else,do you know theres going to be no improvement in SF support,what in the name of God are the strategists thinking,have they simply given up ?

You can't be putting policies forward without costing them!

One way ticket to trouble that is

I'm afraid I googled SF's historical policy on migrants

The SF website has deleted press releasrs that don't fit in with the new narative

None of the massive pirrouette in this video is untrue,Who finances Gript btw ?

Not a good look for her to fall at the first hurdle when launching a policy document meant to make their stance clearer.

I didn’t post links because they don’t exist. You know that though. SF didn’t have to publish an immigration policy, but they did. Now their increasingly belligerent leader gets all high and mighty because she was asked for more detail on it. It’s because she wasn’t able to. Now grasp of detail or figures at all. Yet another disastrous display by her. What did she think was going to happen? Time to ditch her and their team of advisors.

No, she got no chance to do anything.
He never let her talk for more than a few seconds without interrupting.

We know it would have been a 'car crash' no matter what she said in the eyes of some. Even those who clearly didn't bother listen to it.

I didn’t post links because they don’t exist. You know that though. SF didn’t have to publish an immigration policy, but they did.

So Boucher hung his whole interview on looking for costings that nobody else produced or was asked for. And you think that was a good interviewer.

Ok.

To be fair she wasn't answering questions and was trying to steer the conversation away from the application of their policy.

It's car crash because she wasn't actually asked anything difficult.

Wrong thread

She said costings didn't matter and that fixing a serious problem was the priority when asked and PBH insisted on asking for costings and interrupted continuously when she tried to correct his reading (or lack of) of the document.

She didn't get a chance to outline what the policy actually was and involved.

He seemed to know her policy document better than she did! He read out quotes from it and she said he was "nit picking".

She didn't want to talk in detail about how the policy would work and he needed to interrupt her to get some sort of detail on it.

Costings don't matter? Why does she witter on about the Children's Hospital all the time?

A simple google search provides you with a document that tells you that an EO in the civil service will cost €64,870 a year (all in cost) under the PSC in 2021. Allow that most will be EOs with a sprinkling of higher grades and you can assume €70k. Multiply that by 1,000 new civil servants and you can, in literally ten seconds calculate that the cost of 1,000 civil servants in the IPO will be €70m.

That not a single person in Sinn Fein was able to do that tells you all you need to know about their preparedness for government, their competence in figures and more importantly, their credibility to the electorate.

Long live MLMD as the leader of SF. One modern phenomenon of politics is that leaders have a shorter shelf life. That is why the SDs, Greens and FG have changed leadership. Doesn't apply to parties chasing the older conservative vote like FF. You see the same in the US with the Kamala bounce.

I heard from a friend of mine about the interview, and its done the rounds on Twitter.

MLD it seems gets rattled easily and cant handle hard questions.

The boys in West Belfast may need to replace her. Get the guns out!