She is outstanding. The story here isnât the Greens, the story is FFG.
The violent civil war parties want it all their own way. They want to hand pick who they can go into government with and who they can ignore. Itâs all right when they refuse to speak with someone, but itâs scandalous when somebody refuses to legitimise their joint attempted power grab. The hypocrisy is astounding.
The Greens are open to going into government. Theyâve said they want a national unity government and, as an alternative, theyâll consider going in with 1 (one) of the violent civil war parties and others.
FG lost around 40% of their seats in the election and are using a global pandemic to cling onto power. Itâs absolutely sickening. At a time when the country should be pulling together theyâre refusing to even speak with the party that represents 1 in every 4 people, including me. All so they can have their showy, set pieces to camera every few days to further their own political ends.
They said they were ready for opposition and it was up to SF to form a government, but the numbers werenât there. Similarly they need to realise that theyâve failed to bounce the Greens into government and the numbers arenât there either.
So it appears that a coalition government canât be formed, and the main reason is because FFG wonât even speak to SF even in this climate with the nation on its knees.
Fair play @Bandage. Well thought out post. Itâs good to see you putting personal feelings aside and rowing in with the rubby crowd in the interest of Ireland.
Really?
You say we were slower in responding than Europe. Were we faster or slower than Europe shutting down our schools/nursing homes relative to our first case? Just a factual answer will be fine.
we are only following advice on how to deal with the virus and the same steps as taken elsewhere, we have been a little slower than most European countries in implementing restrictions,
Europe is quite a few countries, asking for a âfactual answerâ to your question is a bit stupid. Relative to our first case, we havenât been one of the fastest anyway. There was a relatively long lag before closing bars and then restaurants, and then a relatively long lag until âlockdownâ again. Iâm not being hyper critical, we seem to have managed this relatively well. But itâs not like weâve done exceptionally or anything that hasnât been the pattern elsewhere.
Hi Glas. Not sure whether you trust the Guardian but hereâs an article with outlines of dates of schools closures which confirms Ireland was certainly ahead of most of Europe.