General Election 2020 Part 2

[anon61878697]

@Tim_Riggins

I thought we all should have transferred left and this was a vote for change?

Nearly 60% of the electorate voted FFG and INDs- not left and not for change. Yourself and a few lads here need to go work on their arithmetic cc @carryharry

[mikehunt]

@Tim_Riggins

The same old chip on your shoulder stuff here. The people who elevate themselves to moral superiority whilst giving out from the sidelines are of course paragons of virtue and humility.

This coming from a man who thinks a massive state overspend is grand cos some Dutch pensioners benefit. G’way you spoofer.

[myboyblue]

@anon61878697

We faced down the British empire while you had your head up your arse … Dont talk to us about fear. We are here to fix the nation and serve the people long term — impulsive decisions are not the order of the day. Let us not forget that more of the population actually voted for ffg than Sinn Fein.

When did you face down the British Empire bro?

[anon61878697]

I’m not in a position to disclose that.

[carryharry]

@Dziekanowski

… things actually went tits up for them, they have the fall back of going full nationalist. No other party has that. FF used to have it back in the Haughey days, not now. Haughey era FF is the best Irish comparison for how SF will shore up support. You can see a lot of Haughey era FF in SF’s style now.

They hadn’t a notion of doing so well in the Election, their candidates & lack of was proof of that.
Their manifesto was a pipe dream designed for firing at the FF/FG led government once it was arranged.
As said above, they were planning for 5 years down the line.

[Tim_Riggins]

That’s neither here nor there to the electoral reality.

FF had a huge base to work from. SF don’t.

Whilst I don’t agree with the Spring Tide analogy, it is closer to that now than Haughey.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

The only face downing he did was the night he ended up in hospital after his stag.

[Tim_Riggins]

I never said that. I said that’s the reality of who owns them, not the “mega wealthy”. I agree that all shady investment through complex vehicles needs to be unearthed globally, but I also think people need to acknowledge that a lot of our money is tied up in these things and we benefit too.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Pension funds is not as emotive as Vulture funds.

[Copper_pipe]

@Julio_Geordio

Ross eh, I knew it was him, even when it was years of government neglect combined with a global trend for urbanisation, I knew it was him

TheJournal.ie (thejournal_ie)

[anon61878697]

Can you address the maths please … nearly 60% of the country didnt vote for change… How do we form a government from that?

[mikehunt]

Would these be the private pension funds that Noonan robbed to make up the short fall of selling state assets at knock down prices?

[Locke]

If I may, how the fucking fuck do half of ye hold down a job?? If I’m lucky as I am now I get to take a shite and flick through TFK and there are hundreds of posts!! What do ye do for a living??

[the_man_himself]

@anon61878697 is doing a @GeoffreyBoycott on it. Shitting it

[carryharry]

Eh, Mary Lou says SF won the Election. Keep up pls

[TheUlteriorMotive]

FF will abstain in the national interest to allow change to happen. To block the left now would be mean spirited and anti-democratic.

If SF/IRA cannot deliver change then we will have another election.

[Tim_Riggins]

No problem in saying when I don’t agree with something a government does and I didn’t then.

But please try to stick to a coherent point rather than continuously pointing the other way.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

I intend to step away for a while for that very reason.

[Tim_Riggins]

@anon61878697

Nearly 60% of the electorate voted FFG and INDs- not left and not for change. Yourself and a few lads here need to go work on their arithmetic cc

How many of the Independents just elected supported the last government? It isn’t anywhere near the 50% of first preferences.

Two of them who served as Ministers paid the price for coming into the tent rather than pissing in it. Two others retired so not to feel the wrath.

It’s no wonder that Sinn Féin, PbP et al are so reluctant to enter government. They’re shitting it. SF only want to administer British rule in the North.

[Tim_Riggins]

They’ve broken the Big 2 in the Free State apparently.

Time to govern.