Did anybody hear Peter Burke on Drivetime earlier with the Shinner lady?
What an absolute ignoramous
No. Was he shouting a lot?
Was he pro library?
Came across as a right cunt
i presume they all cycled?
3 Likes
The gradual morph into just being FF/FG for the Shinners is almost complete.
They have very little by the way of radically different policies.
Have they dropped the extra band of income tax too?
I actually went looking for their alternative budget from last year last week and itâs been deleted from the internet.
The vague promise of building more houses faster and improving things, seems to be their platform.
Same wishy washy shite as they all come out with. Now they may well be entitled to a go at it at this stage, couldnât do much worse. But it wonât be a lurch to the left as some hope.
Theyâll be Fianna FĂĄil under a different name.
Seems theyâve kept the 3% on incomes over âŹ140,000.
58% marginal tax rate incoming.
When it comes down to the post election negotiations and Mary Lou and Pearse see the trough in front of them, themselves and Micky Martin will pull together and make a program for Government that will be exactly the same as it was already
2 Likes
No tax credits over 100k
Theyâll fire all available money at housing and health to try to show some bit of a difference.
Thatâll be quietly dropped pre election as with salary inflation a lot more people are heading in that salary direction.
If they sort out housing they could be in government for 20 years.
Disappointed at how beige their setting out of the stall looks, was hoping for a lot more tax on high earners but theyâre obviously casting their net as wide as they can which is a sad (albeit possibly temporary) move further to the center. Sinn Fein have been playing the very long game unlike FF or FG who canât think more than five years ahead, much akin to the parties in the U.S., much to their collective detriment. My long held prediction is that once Sinn Fein manage to get into government as a majority, and itâll be without FF or FG in their coalition, theyâll be extremely difficult to get back out again. Their plan to stay in, will be stronger than the plan to get in and by the time theyâre ousted again, one of the two traditional parties I predict will be largely decimated as a chunk of their voters will be resident in the countryâs graveyards.
1 Like
That and health. Itâd be a fair reward.
Brendan Howlin not running at the next election.
Labour could be reduced to only a couple of seats next time around.