Kelly seemed bright and made some good points over last couple of years.
Labour probably figure they need a Dublin based leader and need to get on board the populist bus.
Overall the standard of politician across all the parties is very mediocre. Thereâs few enough brains going down that road these days.
Thereâs easier ways to get ahead in Ireland and social media is a sewer anybody half way sensible doesnât want to bathe in
Following another tangent I wandered into the Limerick West General Election results thread.
Whatever you can say the Collins faction seem to have ruled the territory in terms of vote management for almost 50 years. Impressive by any standard.
Shower of cunts. Cunts of the highest order. Just above cunts who vote for them.
AodhĂĄn, the local councillor that looks like David Baddiel (cc @Juhniallio) and a few party activists were knocking on doors in my area on Saturday. I turned down the opportunity to ask AOR why he didnât go for the leadership this time or to press him on any other national or international issues. Instead I asked him about the new educate together school and the possibility of bulldozing down that Royal British Legion building in Killester.
Itâs done. She will be the only nominee.
itll be the death knell of labour, even with the majority of the media fully behind her
Bring a labour and social democrat merger a step nearer?
Itâs a very strange move. Any seat won in a by-election, as hers was, will be under serious pressure in a General. Sheâll be doing very well to even retain it.
Id say between SDs and the shinners, therell be no vote or reason for labour. identity politics aint gonna pay the bills or get them elected
especially given the total SNAFU that the blueshirts and shinners made of that bye election. they wont make the same mistake twice
Agreed.
Social Democrats need to give Gary Gannon the top job before the next election.
yeah, eoghan murphy, eamonn ryan, ivana and jim ocallaghan.
Labour have completely forgotten what they are about. SF & PBPABC or whatever they are now have competley gobbled them up on the working man side. Theyâve moved for the woke vote now, but the Soc Dems have that tied up and are better than them at it.
A vote for labour is a vote for what at this stage does anyone know? Do they know?
How many seats would labour be likely to get at general election?
SF and the PBP etc would seem to have the âworking class voteâ sown up
Sherlock is probably the only one thatâs absolutely safe. Smith, O RiordĂĄin and Ged Nash should also be reasonably ok. Bacik will be in serious bother and Kelly probably wonât run.
Hard to see where any potential gains will come from. Limerick and Kildare look lost for the forseeable and there isnât much out west or in the midlands either.
A series of big hitters. Political heavyweights. Not to mention Sexy Kate and Der Kaiser. A proper constituency.
no marks, wastrels and unelectables elsewhere.
