General Election 2020 Part 2

Current Affairs
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On a point of note

You aren’t sitting in traffic

You are traffic

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The hits keep coming for Martin.

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What’s O Cuiv’s alternative? Bring back the eighth amendment and dancing at the crosstoads?

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I’m not sure angry amphibians will help the failers

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The Greens won’t be happy with that either.

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This is starting to look dodgy is it?

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Starting?

The only way this was ever going was another election. Leo has played the entire lot of them like a fiddle.

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I thought they’d be able to hold it together for another 6 months

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2/1 for another election in 2020 :face_with_monocle:

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Leo: I was happy to go into opposition. The people wanted change.

SF couldn’t form a govt so I was happy to speak to FF for the greater good.

I took FG into govt with FF and I even handed over Taoiseach to FF for the good of the country.

I even brought the Greens into govt to help out with climate change.

I did all this while saving the country from corona virus.

VOTE LEO.

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There seems to be a growing chorus of Green dissenters, according to my twitter feed echo chamber. They had the backing of, what, 8 or 9 TDs from 12, was it? But Neasa Neasa delivered that Tour de France speech the other day at the convention and I think it’s given that side a further shot in the arm, although they had a decent base to begin with. Not sure how significant the Occupied Six Green lady’s intervention is either. The split appears to be along the lines of centrist Dads for cycle lanes and austerity versus the younger brigade. I’d give up the chocolate biscuit cake on my kitchen table for Micheál Martin missing out on becoming Taoiseach though.

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Ooooft
That’s an evisceration of @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

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Credible up to that statement

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Was going to back the 2/1 there but it’s been cut to 13/8 :confused:

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why not just lay ff/fg/green at 1.35 on the machine?

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The climate emergency isn’t then?

Maybe just maybe in the next couple of years we’ll see all those neoliberal heads of states and governments wiped out globally and finally we can get an ideologically pure social global green government with open borders, free gaffs and a global minimum wage. The planet may as well burn before ideology is sacrificed seems to be the attitude.

What’s interesting is that it seems to be older group more in favour, ie the people who at least have the excuse that the 2007-2011 coalition was such a catastrophe that it is not worth going in again. It seems to be the younger group, the megaphone ones on Twitter who ape American and U.K. political discourse, with a zero sum attitude. Not only are they ignoring the “climate emergency”, they’re ignoring the Covid emergency. I look forward to them complaining about Covid austerity in the next few years when they stood on the sidelines.

There are far too many useless self proclaimed protest TDs. At least Tony Gregory, the Healy Raes and the rest got a few bob towards his constituents even it was bad national policy. What are the ideologically pure ever going to achieve other that retweets? Christ, Saoirse McHugh would be probably happy to continue to fail to get elected so long as the Irish Times give her ongoing profile.

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Some people just don’t want the world to burn.

But aren’t too sure on the specifics.

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Ideas guys