Leper, have Sinn Féin offered credible solutions to any of those issues? Anger isn't a solution, it isn't a policy.You know, two days since the election finished there are people still wondering what went wrong. Most of us know full well what happened. Somebody should tell Mr Varadkar and Mr Martin.
1. Difficulty in acquiring mortgages; even two professional people can't just waltz into a bank or building society anymore. Mortgages are like gold.
2. High Rents, especially in Dublin where the price of renting has soared out of control.
3. Landlords are pulling out of the market and have been for some years. Shortage = Even Higher Rent.
4. Health Service = Poisoned Chalice for years and all the talk about Sláinte Care is stale as we've heard it all before.
5. Universal Social Charge (USC):- Temporary Tax that has become permanent.
6. RetirementAge shoved out to 67/68 by people who can retire much earlier seen as Hypocrisy.
7. Housing Shortage = Another current scandal.
8. Most of us have kids who'll never live beyond an apartment.
9. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been running Ireland Ltd for nearly 100 years. We have full employment and are amongst the wealthiest nations of the world and still most of us don't have a spare bob.
10. Mr Martin and Mr Varadkar tried to brow-beat Ms McDonald live on television. Sorry Lads! This ain't the way to win votes especially when Mary Lou defeated both of you without breaking sweat.
I hear Mr Martin giving interviews in which he appears to change his mind by the quarter hour. Of course, he will go into power with Sinn Féin. We're not stupid, you know! If he wants another election shortly, he'll get it and Sinn Féin will increase its seats.
Labour's Mr Howlin is licking his wounds and wondering where it all went wrong. Look into the Labour Party, Mr Howlin, not outside of it and you'll see.
I'm still wondering what Mr Varadkar will do. I remember hearing him say some years ago that he would exit politics in his early 50's. I wonder while he licks his wounds is he considering this?
For the Record:- I did not vote Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour, Greens. I voted for the lesser know candidates as I did not wish to waste my vote.
Purple, you're fighting the election again. Newsflash:- The election is over.Leper, have Sinn Féin offered credible solutions to any of those issues? Anger isn't a solution, it isn't a policy.
I'm not fighting the election, I welcome our new terrorist overlords. I'm just asking you if they have solutions to the problems you have highlighted.Purple, you're fighting the election again. Newsflash:- The election is over.
People on hospital trollies, people unable to source a mortgage, people who are homeless, people who are overtaxed, people paying huge rents, people of no hope, people of little disposable income, etc etc couldn't give a whit about the parties who ruled Ireland Ltd for nearly a century and who have failed them. And you say they shouldn't show anger; most of the population is entitled to be angry.
You know, two days since the election finished there are people still wondering what went wrong. Most of us know full well what happened. Somebody should tell Mr Varadkar and Mr Martin.
1. Difficulty in acquiring mortgages; even two professional people can't just waltz into a bank or building society anymore. Mortgages are like gold.
2. High Rents, especially in Dublin where the price of renting has soared out of control.
3. Landlords are pulling out of the market and have been for some years. Shortage = Even Higher Rent.
4. Health Service = Poisoned Chalice for years and all the talk about Sláinte Care is stale as we've heard it all before.
5. Universal Social Charge (USC):- Temporary Tax that has become permanent.
6. RetirementAge shoved out to 67/68 by people who can retire much earlier seen as Hypocrisy.
7. Housing Shortage = Another current scandal.
8. Most of us have kids who'll never live beyond an apartment.
9. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been running Ireland Ltd for nearly 100 years. We have full employment and are amongst the wealthiest nations of the world and still most of us don't have a spare bob.
10. Mr Martin and Mr Varadkar tried to brow-beat Ms McDonald live on television. Sorry Lads! This ain't the way to win votes especially when Mary Lou defeated both of you without breaking sweat.
#8. That's probably an exaggeration - most people will probably end up in a house but may spend longer in apartments than previously. Interestingly, apartments in europe are a lot more popular.
While the success story is SF, the other two FF/FG have no option in my opinion other than form a coalition, with Greens in toe, perhaps.
It is simply unconscionable, having vehemently ruled out coalition or negotiation with the party with most 1st preference votes, that they would also rule out coalition with each other. If there are to do so, it speaks volumes of a prevailing arrogance within the two traditional largest parties.
SF on their end have a clear mandate and should respect the will of the people and have the balls to form a government and deliver what they have promised.
Mary Lou has shown herself to be well able. Time for SF to get off the pitch and grab a hurley. Senior hurling/camoige time now!
Politics is a funny game. I think it was a short while ago, Friday in fact, that some would label SF unfit for government.
Now, some are egging them on, challenging their courage to form a government.
I do think they should try, absolutely. But with the stance of FF/FG it will be very difficult in my opinion. SF/Green/SocD/PBP and some Indos already sounds unstable from the get go.
But that is where political leadership and prowess comes into play. FF have been past masters of it. Mary Lou will have to earn her stripes here.
I'm a big fan of democracy.
I think that people voted for change and change meant different things to different people.
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