Is Mary Harney thinking straight?

[Admiral of the Fleet]

The alternative got one seat less than FF. Nobody, is trying to overturn the verdict of the electorate. The electorate vote for TD's and it is up to the party leaders to put together a government based on this.
Nobody replying to my original post has concerned themselves with the details about Ahern's finances that I have highlighted.

Unless my understanding is faulty--and it could be--FF were returned with 78 seats, one of which was the CC's seat, who was returned without having to stand for reelection. By that reckoning, both FF and the alternative then were returned with 77 seats, on the basis of the electorate's voting preferances. In other words a dead heat.

That hardly constitutes a landslide does it, and certainly not one that should lead them to conclude that they can ram Co-Location down the electorate's throat, come hell or high water. To do so with that kind of underwhelming mandate would be skating on very thin ice indeed.

Methinks it wouldn't take much to tip the balance once a few more scandals (some of which are percolating nicely in the wings) were to appear over the horizon.

[Bunclody75]

The alternative got one seat less than FF. Nobody, is trying to overturn the verdict of the electorate. The electorate vote for TD's and it is up to the party leaders to put together a government based on this.
Nobody replying to my original post has concerned themselves with the details about Ahern's finances that I have highlighted.

The coalition for change was made up of FG and Labour, who between them got 71 seats, not 77.

The Greens were never a committed part of that alternative as we can now see. If Labour had of had the balls to stand as an independent party then we might actually have gotten a change of government.

[DR Runts]

it all depends on what Bertie can put on the table during negotitions



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Jesus that looks good - i love a nice bit of cake!