RTE is the national broadcaster, this is the type of shit they should be reporting on.
Irish Politics
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
There’s literally feck all choice. I dislike both main parties and I will not vote for SF whilst Mary Lou is in charge. She needs to step aside and let the new progressives take charge who have no link to the past
2 of my local independent choices are racist mofos
RTE being biased towards FF should come as a shock to nobody.
Other than FF voters, obviously.
Quite a bit of that about. What constituency are you in?
The Soc Dems sound like they're for you?
Them having no candidates in Sligo/Leitrim is pretty disappointing. At least Shinners have 2 this time.
Yeah, if Strandhill and Rosses Point had a few more hipster returnees they would have put a candidate up. Otherwise, it's probably a good use of resources to focus elsewhere.
I'd be fecking shocked if the Shinners got two returned.
This is my candidate’s. A good assessment
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news...andidates-in-my-constituency/a2018431229.html
I’ll probably give a vote to Ellen Murphy but beyond that I’m stuck. Ruth Coppinger is a neighbour, I don’t like her
That Green chap is alright, and I know Ruth comes across poorly to some but she does good work.
I won't try and sell you the Shinners!
Yeah she is definitely a 'standout'.
Are we sure she actually lives in Ireland? And not abroad and is just confused.
She might live in the US or North Korea?
"I believe the biggest issue facing our country is government overreach and censorship"
She is a complete weapon. My wife had a huge argument with her last year.
Her kid goes to an educate together school and she claims nobody speaks English. Liar
The Irish Enquiry were running stuff on Facebook about a lad from Monaghan who was evicted from his business properties and owed millions in debt. He's now running for election while apparently residing in Cloverhill.
These greedy cnuts don't give a shite, they just want to get their nose in the trough
https://www.thetimes.com/world/irel...an-in-pub-row-refuses-to-leave-jail-5zwx686hx
They love bringing that stuff up.
There must be a real fear of SF getting into government this time around.
What's the fear? FF will happily go in with SF if they poll much higher than FG, which I think is a real possibility.
I believe they’ve held extensive discussions on how that would play publicly.
That's the hope. I want FG to poll less than 17%. Less than 5% would be best but you get the point. SF/FF can be tolerated by most of the nation I think. FF/FG will be such a fecking kick in the teeth to the electorate if, and that's the way the polls have it, have three parties with similar polling mandates (again). But the one party is locked out.
Other than that, I hope for a massive SF underestimation by the polls and a >25% polling. It's possible - not like for like but they are the only mainstream change candidate and the pollsters had Trump down by 3-5% in various cases as to what he actually polled. SF are different, but there is something there. I just don't want to see that margin, whatever it is, going to actual right ring candidates. Independents or parties. Or FG.
tl;dr a SF government is due. Coalition is the only way and there should be serious talks of that if it all pans out as expected. Otherwise the nation's political system really is a joke and it's one of the better ones in pure electoral terms in Europe.
Fine apart from with the urban hipster types was the findings of their research.
They've been terrified of them since the late 90's.
Find it odd that Ireland became so much anti imigration, considering what Irish emigrants faced when they moved in roves to the US.
Yep. They don't see it. I had a very uncomfortable conversation last week with an Irish American home for a visit who was giving out about immigrants in both Ireland and America. You couldn't make that shit up. It's fecking outrageous.
Is The Monk Taoiseach yet?
I don’t think we have, at least compared to the way a lot of other western countries are going.
The numbers of activists is small but I am fecking horrified by the amount of casual "get them out" shit I hear about the place.
It’s a lightning rod for the disaffected. You can disassociate yourself and your family and friends from all of your issues, as you perceive them. It’ll be something else in a couple of years.
Hopefully!
Never, he's not crooked enough.
I guess we'll see how well those IFP nonces* do
*no proof here but they all look like nonces
Ah they're definitely wrong uns.
Denmark, Sweden & Norway are consistently top ten in the Ease of Doing Business rankings (World Bank).
https://archive.doingbusiness.org/en/rankings
Which one did you vote for in the end?
I just think it’s because it’s all so new to us. Same reason I was horrified by all the casual racism (from people who should know better) when I moved home from Dublin 12 years ago. We’ve only had even a hint of diversity for one generation, two at most. So there’s a sense of “other” about anyone who isn’t a white Christian that will take another generation or two for lots of Irish people to get over. It’s depressing but it is what it is.
To a degree, but I can't see it wearing off too easily, especially around here.
So long as kids are integrated in schools they’ll grow up less racist than their parents. That’s definitely already happening in cities. Baby steps.
It is. It may not be as bad as Britain or a number of other European countries but it's many times worse here than it was 10 years ago.
We were the good type of immigrants, or something like that.
I haven’t yet