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kustomkarkommando posted:Also lol looks like government formation may be getting delayed as Tipp is being postponed What a dumb electoral system we have
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lemonadesweetheart posted:When we say Ireland we mean the Island so yeah. But if you mean the Republic there is a very small contingent who would probably be okay with that. So small that I have never heard someone express that view in 35 years living here. Though I guess they probably wouldn't have mentioned it to me when I was like 3 years old
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Not sure about the bigger parties but Labour getting 6 seems a stretch. PbP only getting 1 seems really low. I don't think Soc Dems will get 5 either. SD getting 5 seems optimistic, though my boy Gary Gannon is nailed on imo
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lemonadesweetheart posted:He seems like a good lad but I still don't really trust the purple ones to do much to push things further left. By themselves? No. But then the same is true of all Irish candidates on the vague left. Luckily thanks to the miracle of STV I don't even have to give him number 1 to still strongly endorse him over a bunch of massive corporatist pricks
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kustomkarkommando posted:TG4 has taken the pulse of the Kingdom Aw gently caress if the Healy Raes take a beating I will be so happy
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kustomkarkommando posted:must be rubbing their hands together wait, are we doing anti-Semitic tropes in Irish politics as well now?
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lemonadesweetheart posted:seems callous Nah seems reasonable
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Blut posted:Sitting in opposition for decades doesn't achieve anything, other than a few decades of 100k a year salaries for your TDs. Seems to be working out ok for SF right now.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:If she wasn't an independent this wouldn't be happening. Perhaps not, but it should
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Dunno why everyone thinks you need a polling card to vote. Don't think I'm usually asked to present mine, and it's not a requirement if you have ID
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lemonadesweetheart posted:I had only just submitted my change of address when the election was announced as I just recently moved here, so I wasn't sure if I'd be stuck in my old district or not. I was aware you don't need it but this confirms that I'm registered to vote where I live. Yeah sorry, I was speaking generally. I've had to tell about half a dozen people the same thing in work this week
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Get out and vote. I was going to but you didn't ask nicely 
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Gary Gannon will fail then. GG can never fail, he can only be failed. But fine then! *puts on jacket, looks at u surly*
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I did it, I socialism'ed all over that poor ballot. Now I can have a little morning icecream, as a treat e: took enormous satisfaction in hellvoting against the #MIGA #DrainTheSwamp super-racist attention-seeking clownfuck fail candidate Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Aidan_702 posted:Is the higher than expected turnout real or is it just people are using this as an excuse to get up earlier on the weekend and polling stations will be empty by 4pm? I imagine at least weekend elections don't have the issue of workers voting en masse after work. Wait and see though
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PowerBeard posted:It should have been #DrainTheBog As a Cork ex-pat, I feel victimised
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Met an auld dear on the way back from the polling station. She told me we have to vote sinn fein and transfer left. She read it on facebook. seems TransferLeft has been really successful messaging - you love to see it
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Rubberbandits have a podcast. would second this - though it's Marmite to some people, and he talks out of his hole a fair bit, as much as I like him. Counts are looking good lads - Aontu probably won't get the 2% funding, Gary Gannon will probably beat out the FF candidate if TransferLeft is a real thing, SF outpacing the exit poll nationally...
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forkboy84 posted:What about the royalist commie tho? he's gotten 63 votes total so far, so not looking great. but when did a royalist ever worry about popular assent? https://twitter.com/RTEdubSOUTHWEST/status/1226470565038501888/photo/1
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https://twitter.com/AineMcMahon/status/1226595574268514306?s=20 honestly so sad right now. alexa play aphex twin - windowlicker e: lmao at the Brexit/Kipper accounts who are crowing because they think Leo won't get his seat and their tiny gammon minds cannot handle STV e2: https://twitter.com/richiem42/status/1226580145743507457?s=20 Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Feb 9, 2020 |
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Shoehead posted:The absolute state of Dublin-bay South, though. My drat landlord voted for Eoghan Murphy I mean...of loving course they did
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OwlFancier posted:Historically good result for SF yeah? Yeah
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adhuin posted:Wait a minute. Yes we use STV, not FPTP, and it's good E: as already stated, the loser votes get rolled in at the end
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Guavanaut posted:You can have STV systems without redistribution of 2nd prefs from winners, just last place eliminated and recount. That doesn't make it FPTP. Sure, fine. But we don't do that, and it's not usually what people are talking about when they big up STV
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I would happily change religion to get an extra bank holiday. Luckily my current religion (socialism) already believes in maximising holiday days
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The Question IRL posted:Why is everyone saying that if FF/FG get into power than the Housing Crisis will be over in 18-24 months? Who is this "everyone"? The Independent?
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The Question IRL posted:People in this thread have been saying it. Fair enough I glazed over that post, but uhhh I don't think it's based in any kind of reasonable analysis of how hosed the property market is tbh
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I wish I shared the optimism, but I can see a bunch of high-density fancydan flats being built in the radius of Silicon Docks and gently caress all elsewhere (and definitely not in the non-Dublin RPZs). Now this obviously takes some of the worst pressure off a certain segment of the housing market, but it's not what you'd call a holistic solution. Though I would agree that we're standing at a political inflection point, where the name of the game could flip from "who can enrich landlords fastest" to "who can build housing stock fastest". But without a leftist ideology in the Housing Dept. it's gonna be some wildly poo poo compromise between those two poles
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I'm honestly fascinated by the prospect. I wonder how much temporary unifying power Mary Lou could wield by baldly stating "FFG are trying to set us up to fail, but if we swallow our pride for a couple of years we can permanently shake their grip on the country's bollocks"
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Venomous posted:Were Labour ever socialists or even social democrats at all, or were they always useless centrists? They expelled the Trots at the end of the 80s and they've been loving awful ever since AFAIK
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It's a little bit telling when one has to appeal to unknowable counterfactuals about how bad things could have been, rather than any concrete political gains. It's a very UK LibDem message, and about as convincing
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Blut posted:Its pretty far from an unknowable counterfactual when FG are well established as the most economically right wing party in Irish politics. Literally any other party going into government with them drags the government towards the center. FG were on record as advocating for even more cuts to public services during the 2011 government than what we actually got. So why bother voting for Labour then? Literally any other party will suffice
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Arquinsiel posted:I've been told by various organisers of the push for MarRef that when he was asked about it at various events he laughed and told them it'd never happen. Also when he became a Minister Matt stopped playing Magic the Gathering in Gamer's World on Jervis street, apparently "just in case". In case what? Does Warhammer make you double-gay?
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