The next Government

[One]

Nah it'll be FF who'll collapse such a government. We'll hopefully have learnt the lessons from FF against running too many candidates though.

The odds of a second election in 2020 have dropped to 5/2.


I cannot see Lou Lou getting a coalition of Left/Ind working.

Equally so a Sinnfein/IRA/FF coalition with the Greens seems doomed to fall apart.

Micheal 2/5 on to be next Taoiseach.

 

[Tube a Pringles]

Personally I would prefer SF to enter into government now, rather than have MLMD as leader of the opposition as we enter a potential economic minefield of the next 2 to 4 years.

 

[One]

Personally I would prefer SF to enter into government now, rather than have MLMD as leader of the opposition as we enter a potential economic minefield of the next 2 to 4 years.

The bookies fancy FF/SF/Greens.


In that scenario do you see the Greens carrying the can for unpopular policy?

Surely Eamon Ryan has learnt the lessons of their last spell in government.

 

[The High King]

Personally I would prefer SF to enter into government now, rather than have MLMD as leader of the opposition as we enter a potential economic minefield of the next 2 to 4 years.

Yup.
Much better now with some degree of moderation aka FF and the Greens then in the next election as the senior part in some lefty headbanger coalition.

 

[Tube a Pringles]

The bookies fancy FF/SF/Greens.


In that scenario do you see the Greens carrying the can for unpopular policy?

Surely Eamon Ryan has learnt the lessons of their last spell in government.

Possibly the whipping boys in that scenario. I doubt they learned the lesson last time around I would think.

 

[The High King]

The bookies fancy FF/SF/Greens.


In that scenario do you see the Greens carrying the can for unpopular policy?

Surely Eamon Ryan has learnt the lessons of their last spell in government.

The Greens are mildly left with a particular interest in a certain agenda. Both the others are populist parties with a penchant for being varying degrees of left when it suits them.
Greens get minister for environment. Sf get housing, social welfare, Ff get Foreign Affairs, Defence and Finance. All the rest up for grabs.
No reason common left of centre plans going forward cant be hammered out now in negotiations and then they'll have to wing it and hope it goes ok.

 

[One]

A Sinn Fein minister for Justice?

You're having a giraffe.

 

[The High King]

I'd love to see grants for native Woodlands giving to farmers with marginal land.
That would play to the Greens and the small farmers who used to be FFs main base.
Give Sf housing portfolio and some funding to reduce the cost of childcare. Also let them stop the pension age increase to 67 and return it to 65, for this election cycle anyway. Also let them take the lowest income workers out of the USC, not a million or anything close to it but some, minimum wage or close.
That should keep their base happy.
It's far from impossible.

 

[The High King]

A Sinn Fein minister for Justice?

You're having a giraffe.

Forgot that, has to be FF or Greens.

 

[Roxetten]

The bookies fancy FF/SF/Greens.


In that scenario do you see the Greens carrying the can for unpopular policy?

Surely Eamon Ryan has learnt the lessons of their last spell in government.

I like Ryan but he strikes me as terribly naive, FF and SF would run rings around him.