Heās a natural Fine Gaeler.
He comes out well from it in fairness.
The Indo article is alluding to him joining Fianna FƔil, that would be a major coup for Martin.
heād need to get him to the front bench as quick as possible in order to get him on the airwaves ahead of the next election. If they could hold Pat Caseyās seat with his transfer as well then it would return the problematic constituency to a two-seater for them.
He has the same stance as FF on water charges but differs on the abortion issues from what I can make out. The Greens might be a better fit for him but heās unlikely to take a chance on them.
How so? Because heās pro-business?
Heās for the abolition of Irish Water, anti-vulture funds and pro-abortion reform.
Think he might be a better political analyst than a politician.
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He has a great way about him. Content does not matter.
Considering that he walked from the Social Democrats for that reason I think youāll find that content is extremely important to him.
I dunno @croppy_boy. He walked from the PAC, didnāt he? He walked from talks about government practically before they started. Now heās walked from the Social Democrats. It might be that unless absolutely everything is how he wants it he strops off. Choosing to start a party with others who have very different views to you is crazy.
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IIrish politics is indeed tribal. But itās also highly personal. So thereās plenty of big votes out their for big characters. Ireland is full of āfuck you all, we know heās a cunt but heās our boy!ā and āThatāll show them up in Dublinā about Irish voters. Think McDaid, Lowry, Collins, The Healys Rae. Greystones and itās environs is full of people who have done well and think themselves cerebral. And you canāt get more cerebral than his dome.
Donnelly talks a good game. I am not surprised by him leaving the SDās, I didnāt he fitted with Murphy and Shortall. Be interesting to see if he will go to FF or FG now.
Apparently he didnāt want to and thatās a large part of the reason heās leaving now. The stance on Apple was the straw that broke the camelās back as he was taking August to thinks things over.
Every party is going to feature people with very different view, you just need to be able and willing to compromise yourself up to a point once you share the same core values and ideals. It looks like he found the point of no return and though it better to depart the scene rather than get further into a situation that he didnāt like or agree with.
Heard that. A lovely spin that came out today. I reckon we would have heard a lot more about that before today if it were true. Youāre being awful kind to him. Are you in the chromedome club with him and @artfoley?
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No I have a lovely head of brown hair thatās going nowhere.
Iād be skeptical as it seems like Murphy and Shortall were ready to go with their statement very quickly and they were clearly trying to paint him in a bad light.
Iād liked the Social Democrats when the seemed to aspire to his sensible thought on economics and the ideals of the other two on social and ethical affairs. Now all bets are off. If Eamon Ryan has any sense heāll be on the phone to him this morning to see if thereās common ground that they can find.
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The demographic of Donnellyās vote isnāt hugely different to that which voted for the likes of Lucinda Creighton, Michael McDowell, the Green Party or South Dublin Labour candidates in 1992 and 2011. Itās a largely middle class vote. That has always been a fickle vote. A candidate relying on that type of demographic can easily top the poll at one election and find themselves losing their seat the next time.
Itās very different to the rural McDaid/Lowry/McGrath/Healy Rae votes.
But thereās also a sizeable young, left-leaning, anti-establishment element to Donnellyās popularity (some of it crosses over with the middle class demographic) and if he switches to Fianna Fail most of that will desert him.
If Donnelly did switch to Fianna Fail heād basically be gambling that peopleās memories are very short.
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As an aside, I see the adorable Keith vaz has been out looking for badgers.
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Think you should move that one to the āRavenousā thread Flatty
Looks like weāre going to collect the 13BN and hold it in escrow.
I presume Apple will just send an IOU?
Insert generic āthat money was just resting in my accountā quip and/or optional meme here.
I like Lise Hands description
Thatās not how schrodingers cat worked. He was dead and alive. If he was dead and also simultaneously dead heād just be dead and thereād be no mystery. Poor analogy.
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