+1. As a poster committed to protecting our planet, you must be seething that an environmental activist like Lynn Boylan has lost out to a guy who speculates on oil exploration companies.
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What brave initiatives are the Green’s advocating ? Carbon tax and water tax?
They’ll be clamping down heavily on the diesel car owners they heavily incentivised to buy said cars the last time they got a whiff of a power
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To be fair to Lynn Boylan she is incredibly hard working and is very good on green issues. Like me she is an enviro-republican.
Some of this begrudgery around the green vote is distasteful and those who peddle or are the unwitting knaves of the centrist scourge. No mark centrist parties like Labour digging up years old articles to try to deflect from their own irrelevance. I have coined these attacks ‘off-the-cuffe remarks’ as they are a clear centrist attempt to begrudge one of Dublin’s most consistent and selfless green activists his day in the sun. Presumably he had shares in a portfolio that included oil companies he didn’t know about . But why not look at the fact that he is one of few politicians to fund his own campaign or the fact that his life is about walking the walk on green issues?
Lynn boylan deserved to be elected, Barry Andrews , FRAncis Fitzgerald , Alex white , mark durkan and their west Brit ilk are everything that is wrong with centrist politics and they will make green noises as they do fuck all about our issues. Brits our. Carbon out.
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They’ll be ran out of it again if they go down the taxation route … they are seen as safe - and in a country where there is no real opposition party - they’ve done well at local election. The sad truth is that there’s a lot of anger out there and people had no protest vote … SF were shaping up to be a decent opposition a few years ago - possibly a junior government party but McDonald is a lemon… she’s typical of Irish politicians in that she’s a chancer and reactionary ---- We need someone on the front foot dictating to the Government, not waiting around to latch onto any bad press just to land a few harmless jabs.
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It’s safe enough vote green at the European elections as well.
They could kick on from here, maybe they’ve learned their lessons from the last time. Who knows.
Keep Ireland green - fuck a frog.
What lessons
Have the public learned their lessons, you mean
The Greens had six TDs compared to Fianna Fail’s 77
The nature of being a minority partner in a coalition government is that you can’t get your own way most of the time but you can hope to influence some things
The Green Party was not responsible for the financial crash in this country
Instead of kicking junior coalition partners who can’t implement much of their agenda, the public would be better off electing them in such numbers that they can lead a government and implement more of their policies
A fundamental rethink on what government is needed among the population - until that happens, it’s just hamster on a wheel stuff
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What policies? More Diesel cars?
I’d be happy be with more water charges, more carbon taxes and a crack squad of militant feminist cyclists going around letting the air out of people’s car tyres
Oh looks like the Shinners are turning their ire to the Greens now. Wonderful.
I agree, the biggest mistake the Greens made was allowing the Cowen farce to go on too long.
Why, what have they said?
I’d like to see the Green Party push for the Irish flag to be made entrely green on the following basis:
i) The orange bit represents high air miles for food - we need to cut down on this
ii) The orange bit is sectarian
iii) The white bit is racist
iv) An entirely green flag would be a lovely nod to the Libyan flag - and would acknowledge the late Colonel Gadaffi/Gadafy/al Qhadaffi and his wonderful gesture of providing arms to the RA in the 1980s - though we must also remember that the Colonel was not perfect - he was known to fart copiously, thus increasing the release of methane into the atmosphere
Are you a lapsed member now?
I’m not on active duty - that’s all i’m at liberty to say right now.
Green flag with Harp.
A Green / Sinn Féin spin off / splinter group would get my support. Crack teams of violence prone volunteers on bicycles would be a lovely nod to the flying columns.
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Under a Green Party government, the IRA will pledge to use organic paintballs in any future outbreak of the Troubles
That is something I think we can all be on board with