The Greens were misled by FF - Paul Gogarty

[socialdemocrate]

they should leave government, this is their most opportune moment, they can take the "moral high ground" FF would be massacred in any election at the moment, seriously the old folks are angry like i've never seen before! If the greens leave now, they wont be tared with that brush and might be able to form a coalition with FG and labour.

[Sandrita]

if they don't leave they will lose out at the next election like the PDs did.

[bobbysands81]

The only right thing to do is walk out of Government.

I doubt very much they will.

[The Red Rose of Cork]

Universal entitlement to MC over 70 or they should walk.

FF would be looking at 50 seats max and a strong Lab/Green block in gov with FG would be a force for positive change in the country and a much needed move away from the politics of greed

[goosebump]

Oh but wait, they had a "Carbon Budget" the day after the real grown-ups budget.

What a victory for Greens in government!

I imagine that many people who voted for the GP did so because they wanted Carbon Budgets.

From what I can see, the GP's vote is built on issues like Climate Change, Energy and Planning, not the hippy loo-laa stuff like Shannon, Corrib and Tara.

I can't see voters who previously voted for the GP switching to the likes of FG over medical cards, given the derision with which FG (and indeed Labour) treat issues like climate change and planning.

Was it not Jim Higgins who recently suggested that the Governments response to the threat of flooding should be to build more houses in the countryside? You think GP voters are going to go for that sort of sh1te?

[Big Bobo]

I imagine that many people who voted for the GP did so because they wanted Carbon Budgets.

From what I can see, the GP's vote is built on issues like Climate Change, Energy and Planning, not the hippy loo-laa stuff like Shannon, Corrib and Tara.

I can't see voters who previously voted for the GP switching to the likes of FG over medical cards, given the derision with which FG (and indeed Labour) treat issues like climate change and planning.

Was it not Jim Higgins who recently suggested that the Governments response to the threat of flooding should be to build more houses in the countryside? You think GP voters are going to go for that sort of sh1te?

Typical arrogance of a gombeen man.

[kerrynorth]

I voted No because I want to see the Greens squirm and squeal like weasels over the next couple of years as they have to take slash and burn to public spending while at the same time awarding their supporters income tax relief for cycling!!

[H.R. Haldeman]

The fiasco is getting fiascoier.

[stalins granny]

The greens slogan in the next GE will "a bigger boy made me do it" they seem to think they can participate in some sort of semi detached govt where the public wont blame them for the mess.

[LooseCannon]

Tax relief for cycling would secure the core Green vote.

GP support looks at the briefs their ministers have - it's a realpolitik approach (it involves a fair amount of teethgrinding though).