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About LinkBacksWhy have none of you answered my previous question, when I asked which party you would be most comfortable going into coalition with?
jonna
Why have none of you answered my previous question, when I asked which party you would be most comfortable going into coalition with?
jonna
VOTE LABOUR!!
I think that's because it has been discussed many times before, both in threads dedicated to the question and in threads where it was a tangent.Originally Posted by jonna
The consensus emerged that FG/Lab is the only combination that is anyway electorally possible and that our members will support. SF/Grn/Lab is interesting but unlikely and our members wouldn't support a FF/Grn or FF/PD/Grn co-alition.
Fianna Fail
FG will do anything for popular support and Labour will let them in return for concessions to unions. The environment and sustainability would undoubtedly suffer in that configuration.
Fianna Fail are much more pliable, and know that they have the necessary core vote to push through unpopular but necessary measures.
The only way to change the world is to win elections.
Most comfortable party? If it were to be only one, it'd be Labour. It seems that both parties have time for the other and voting patterns show reciprocal relationships.
I have to say though that I am fed up with this country. Every time I mention politics to a stranger they get nasty. Time to emigrate if the stupid electorate vote Bertie back in.
I agree..I personally would love to see a coalition with Labour and the Greens...
jonna
VOTE LABOUR!!
If the Greens are going to take the position of ruling out parties then that only shows they are just another Civil War party throwing their support behind another party because it's "not FF". It further shows that actually getting their policies implemented comes second on their list of priorities to their own closet Blueshirtism. Indeed their recent decline in the polls to 4% may be a sign the pro-FF element of their vote is abandoning ship in reaction against this. Bertie is a very popular Taoiseach and a party running on a platform of ousting him will not strike a chord with the public. If they were living in the real world they would also understand they would get their way more in a 2-party govt than a 3-party one where they would be competing with Labour for influence.
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The only way to change the world is to win elections.
For a supposed PD you seem very concerned who Fianna Fail may make a deal with now that they have decided that the PDs will not be able to help them continue with their corruption in power after the next election. It must be galling especially for McDowell after he rolled over, tossing his principles on the scrapheap and keeping Aherne in his position as Taoiseach during "Bertiegate".If the Greens are going to take the position of ruling out parties then that only shows they are just another Civil War party throwing their support behind another party because it's "not FF". It further shows that actually getting their policies implemented comes second on their list of priorities to their own closet Blueshirtism. Indeed their recent decline in the polls to 4% may be a sign the pro-FF element of their vote is abandoning ship in reaction against this. Bertie is a very popular Taoiseach and a party running on a platform of ousting him will not strike a chord with the public. If they were living in the real world they would also understand they would get their way more in a 2-party govt than a 3-party one where they would be competing with Labour for influence.
Grave robbing is a crime!
Average expenses per TD in 2011:- FG €36,412, Lab €28,756, FF €45,219, SF €44,413, SP €23,654, PBP €31,866, WUAG €49,911, IND €37,805, CC €13,112.
I thought I had! Labour'd be my preference, ignoring the numbers problem
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Why laobur? Labour wan to restore manufacturing etc. Hardly good for the envrioment.
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