Delighted to see Gilmore personal popularity surge in todays poll. However the nugget in the whole equation is that Gilmore stills has the highest percentage of undecided voters offering a view on his leadership.
What a wounderful moment for the Leader of the Labour Party.
To have the opportunity to be the most popular leader in the country and still have the chance to harvets so many "undecided". Wow.
Read the Irisg Indo.....The FF paper.
The danger is that Civil War politics might deliver a centre-left led government to a centre-right country.
Labour hit 22% before, in May 2003.
In the General election 4 years later they got 10%.
Don't start partying just yet
Just how young are you? The Indo is a Blue Shirt Rag - there are just very few real Blue Shirts around anymore - FG has become FF without power.Originally Posted by YoungPup
But back to Gilmore. The claim is that Gilmore wants to be Taoiseach; under a presidential system he could have a chance to make it, under a list system he could eventually get the job, under multi seat PR STV there is zero chance with one proviso - FG is on 30%, Labour is on 22%, he needs to close that gap. For that he needs a larger orgnisiation, a national reach, loads of funding and a lot more candidates. I don't see that happening.
Who do you blame for that?
If FF and FG don't like it, they can come together.
If there is a future, it will be Green.
Gilmore still has one major problem: come GE time FG will say that they are the only party you can vote for that you can be 100% sure won't go in coalition with FF. A lot of people will be persuaded by that argument, including me.
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We had this before.
He could be taoiseach by going in with FF.
Or, even if FG are the biggest party, FF offer Gilmore to be Taoiseach, then FG might match the offer.
If there is a future, it will be Green.
Or if he can't be Taoiseach, he can stay out and be leader of the opposition.
He has a few more years left in him. There will always be more elections.
If there is a future, it will be Green.
Bollocks to this civil war crap. People I know dont vote because of civil war politics, and they still vote for the main two. Admit it, all you people that complain about civil war politics, are just a bunch wasters that no one will ever vote for. Plus, without the Labour party, there wouldnt have been a civil war.
Labour/FF should never happen.
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