The next Government

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Fg senator John mcgahon on trial for assaulting a man outside a co louth pub,
He had earlier put his arm around the victims wife and said" you are coming home with me"

Found not guilty.

 

[jimmym]

Found not guilty.

Elites, cosy catrtels, cronyism, etc etc

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Elites, cosy catrtels, cronyism, etc etc

 

[jimmym]

Lots of stories of hotels price gouging, Galling when you consider they have had vat reduced from 13.5 to 9%

 

[Meridian]

Lots of stories of hotels price gouging, Galling when you consider they have had vat reduced from 13.5 to 9%

Agreed it is a disgrace, these pricks should be regulated like the taxi industry was, remember how they fla'ed it ?

 

[PROCNA2018]

Red C

FG 20
FF 15
GP 5

SF 36.

 

[jimmym]

Red C

FG 20
FF 15
GP 5

SF 36.

At this stage can we say very best ff fg can hope for on polling day is 40% and that would be with everything going their way? they can depend on some independents and maybe soc dems?
sf only hope is a coalition with ff,

 

[Meridian]

At this stage can we say very best ff fg can hope for on polling day is 40% and that would be with everything going their way? they can depend on some independents and maybe soc dems?
sf only hope is a coalition with ff,

There is one calculation here that is not in the equation

The anti SF/IRA vote, as in people who traditionally voted for FF and never for FG and vice versa.
I feel there will be support for each party from what used to be one or the other.

 

[jimmym]

The more i think of it, FF will not go into coalition with SF, Some in the party would be open to it but id say majority would rather a period in opposition
rather than going in as junior partners, If sf were to put together a minority government how long would it last if they were depending
on likes of Paul Murphy, Mick Barry etc?

 

[PROCNA2018]

The more i think of it, FF will not go into coalition with SF, Some in the party would be open to it but id say majority would rather a period in opposition
rather than going in as junior partners, If sf were to put together a minority government how long would it last if they were depending
on likes of Paul Murphy, Mick Barry etc?

FF SF will not happen, MM will not allow it.
On 15% what will happen to FF in opposition?
SF can't make a minority government on 36%.

It is FF and FG on 35-40% (currently 35% but will change come election time) and if necessary the Greens again, or Greens and Indies or etc etc.

The difference between FF and FG on 35% and SF on 36% is the menu of coalition partners available to them. SF on 36% will eat up the SD, PBP vote. Labour under Bacik are not Labour, will get a bounce in Dublin for all the woke policies but other than that will be lucky to hit 6% and they won't go near SF either.

When a FF Taoiseach goes with the leader of FG to give a joint oration at Béal na mBláth it is very strange times indeed. What next? FG at St. Finbarr's cemetery on an Easter Sunday? Twould have been impossible 15 years ago.