look I stand by law and order
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Who doesnât ?
The excitement is building as the audience arrives for the @ClaireByrneLive leaders debate #GE16 #ULDebate
Iâm looking forward to Lucinda Creighton being filleted in this debate.
I expect Stephen Donnelly to give a very good account of himself and the Social Democrats. Iâll be giving them a high preference - I think theyâll be quite transfer-friendly come the election.
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Donnelly could do really well. A measured style should go down well amid the ranting and roaring and falsehoods.
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Donnelly will be excellent. RBB will be over passionate. Creighton will be very good. I like her. I totally disagree with a lot of her policies but think she is quite clear, manages well under pressure and generally answers the question asked. Kenny will try and stay out of the debate entirely and wonât deviate from stock answers.
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I didnât realise Creighton was involved in this. A Jokeshop.
Iâd tend to agree with that - a lot of their policies are sensible and the personalities are credible. My main issue is their inability to settle on a leader - hardly a ringing endorsement of their ability to make tough decisions.
Creighton has never impressed me in any way, ever, and certainly never in any type of a debate setting.
Newstalk had their election Battle Bus in Enniscorthy today to have debate with the Wexford hopefuls but there was no Mick Wallace.
She sets out her stall very clearly, that is to be admired amid all the bluster. Itâs unfortunate that her policies are poison. She always replies to a question. Itâs just that her answers are gash.
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Not too far off there.
I thought she was really poor last night.
I donât agree with pretty much anything she says, so that doesnât help, but she didnât have any conviction or passion or resolve in anything she was saying. I thought she was a bit too timid and defensive, she didnât sound convincing. I have no doubt she does have her strong views because Iâve heard her before but the overwhelming impression I got from her last night was of somebody who didnât want to be there (and already had her coat on to leave).
PP cut FF/FG as the most likely next government to 6/5 from 11/8
Which one of the main political parties doesnât accept partition?
Did Creighton shut the door on ever returning to the FG fold after her closing remark that âFianna Fail, Fine Gael, theyâre all the sameâ?
Her biggest shortcoming, like a lot of career women, is her total lack of warmth. She is an austere woman with austere policies. Without a strong party behind her sheâs not very likely to ever get a movement off the ground.
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As things stand I canât see the next government going full term.
Creighton is on record as saying that if she was in the US sheâd be a Republican and her policies are straight out of the batshit crazy wing of that party, as opposed to the merely crazy âmoderateâ wing of it. Sheâs an Irish Ayn Rand-type character.
There simply isnât a market for that type of political party in this country and thatâs to be welcomed.
The Examiner have taken on the story about Michael Noonan which was broken by @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy on TFK:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/michael-noonan-didnt-want-to-know-about-sex-abuse-claims-382178.html
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cat got your tongue Tim Riggins