If any candidate comes to my door, I’ll politely accept their leaflet and tell them I’ll have a look, then wish them the best of luck.
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Varadkar’s biggest weakness is he has no empathy, he shows it with his blunders again and again.
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I dislike Varadkar as much or more than anyone but that is clearly nonsense, you don’t get to be the leader of a country by being lazy. He also has a great capacity for detail briefing, very different to Kenny who only wanted the top three points before going into a meeting.
Glad to see you’ve come around and agree with me now.
and yet when something happened on his ministerial brief back in the day, he claimed to know nothing about it 
Modus operandi. Anything good that happens he makes sure government of Ireland and a ministers name is attached to it, anything negative and it’s an external event or attached to department of whatever. His disbanded spin unit was set up put this into action.
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A lot has been done right in the last decade - despite all the naysayers. The prospects for Ireland in 2010 were pretty grim and that’s how most people saw it. However, health and housing are large issues and to a lesser extent the country is creaking at the seams in terms of infrastructure requirement.
To make meaningful change in areas like this requires taking on entrenched vested interests. That can only be done with a unity of purpose from a government and a strong democratic mandate to drive it through.
There’ll be lots of claims from all parties in the upcoming election that they have the solutions to various problems. Even if they do, it can only be achieved if at the very least there is a majority gov after the election. It’s hard to see how that’s achieved at this stage so no matter who comes back in power.
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Health and housing the two big and immediate ones. Planning for a significantly increased population in the near future, I forget what year it is but we’re predicted to have an additional million people in the country relatively soon. Some sort of some way sustainable development of the rest of the country as a counter balance to Dublin.
FG and labour had exactly that in the last dail and failed so badly that FF are now likely to lead the next govt when they sholud have been wiped out. time and time again FG have taken the wrong path rather than doing the right thing
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Cause they’re a shower of cunts.
no arguments here on that, but they missed the opportunity to wipe out the shower of cunts that bankrupted us
I think it was labour missed the chance. Had they not gone into government that time they’d probably be the second largest party against FG now with FF largely wiped out and we might have a genuine choice between left and right for government.
I think it was quite different circumstance when FG/Labour were in power. The absolute imperative was to right the countries finances which was achieved. You may disregard that or not like the way it was achieved but that was the challenge the country faced above all others at that time.
Actually, in that situation they were able to drive through things that would not be possible in a minority gov which was kind of my point. If people want to “fix” housing, health or the environment it will require making decisions that will piss a lot of people off, no matter who is in charge, and there is little evidence that the Irish body politic can make those sort of decisions and certainly not when counting on the votes of independents, opposition parties etc.
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What a fuck head - but unfortunately that’s largely what the next few weeks will be like - mud slinging and talking about 2008, and in Sinn Fein’s case the 70s-80s.
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not going well for simon
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Huh? Was Micheal Martin Taoiseach or Minister for Finance?
Anyone with banter in their userhandle can be disregarded immediately.
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no, but there is there concept of collective cabinet responsibility