The Greens were misled by FF - Paul Gogarty

[theyshootPDsdontthey]

You obviously are very satisfied with a bar which is so low even a tapeworm couldn't get under it. Still stick to the light bulbs and the bike grant. Tis grand.

[hiding behind a poster]

Where's Enda?

Regards...jmcc

Sorry, what's your point?

[jmcc]

Sorry, what's your point?

Enda - where has he been since all this blew up?

Regards...jmcc

[hiding behind a poster]

Enda - where has he been since all this blew up?

Regards...jmcc

He was the main interview on Six One on Wednesday or Thursday last week, he was quoted on national radio bulletins for a statement he made on Sunday, and he had an opinion piece in the Irish Times today. Meanwhile Richard Bruton and James Reilly, holders of the relevant shadow portfolios, have also been on media a fair bit. Bruton was on Prime Time last week, and Reilly was on Six One today. Why do you ask?

[jmcc]

He was the main interview on Six One on Wednesday or Thursday last week, he was quoted on national radio bulletins for a statement he made on Sunday, and he had an opinion piece in the Irish Times today. Meanwhile Richard Bruton and James Reilly, holders of the relevant shadow portfolios, have also been on media a fair bit. Bruton was on Prime Time last week, and Reilly was on Six One today. Why do you ask?

His handlers must be dreading a "Dream on, baby." gaffe that could undo all the work of the others and hand a triumph to FF. He should be leading the charge on this.

Regards...jmcc

[MookieBaylock]

Gormley and McDowel are in the same constituency, will history repeat itself and give the leader of Zanu-FF's mudflap party a nice cherio?

Nothing surer

[ibis]

Nothing surer

Don't know about any other voter in DSE, but I didn't leave a blank beside McDowell's name on the ballot because he was FF's mudguard. I did it because he was Michael McDowell.

[MookieBaylock]

I am just wondering how my own party Sinn Féin would have reacted to this if they had been in a coalition with FF. I am beginning to think that like the PDs and Greens, political power is too valuable/too hard won for minority parties to have good old fashioned principles.

Maybe I am wrong and perhaps Sinn Féin would have acted differently but given the behaviours of other minority parties I am beginning to lose faith in coalition governments and especially minority partners in the said governments, something I thought I would never believe given my avid support for the PR system.

Single Seat STV is the way forward in this country. It's true PR.

The current system is a shaggin' joke..

My home constituency is a 5 seater - 2 seats go automatically to one county, three to the other.. people vote tactically for their county.

Then in the cities you get silly 5 seaters guaranteed to allow some nut in on the 5th counts and then you get 3 seaters where it's FG/FF 2 or 1 depending on how the wind is blowing..

Single Seat PR is the way forward.

[hiding behind a poster]

His handlers must be dreading a "Dream on, baby." gaffe that could undo all the work of the others and hand a triumph to FF. He should be leading the charge on this.

Regards...jmcc

You really are obsessed with Enda Kenny, aren't you? Can I ask what exactly is wrong with himself, Bruton and Reilly appearing on a string of TV and radio programmes? And we both know that if Kenny was on every programme, you'd be whining "where are the rest of the front bench? If FG are to look like a credible alternative government, they must show they have a talented front bench". Because whatever FG do, you always say they should have done something else. Its just your default setting.

(By the way, no-one, and I mean no-one, outside of the sad self-obsessives who populate p.ie, has EVER mentioned the "dream on baby" line to me. Get over it.)

[jmcc]

How the Greens handle this situation is important. The wrong decision would be to leave government in a huff. The right one, in my opinion, would be to force a change.

Regards...jmcc