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    The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Now that the PDs appear to have exited stage right, they may have taken with them the diversity in Irish politics. In the future we may be left with a Fianna Fáíl-Green alliance on one side and a Fine Gael-Labour one on the other, two coalitions of the centre right and centre left. Or will the fall of the PDs prove to be creative and make a new reality in Irish politics?
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    ASk the ordinary Irish person if they want a left or right wing government, they wont have a clue what you saying. Irish politics is fought on such trivial notions.
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Since every party in the Dail, even SF, is coming around to PD thinking, I dont see any gap.

    We have two large centre-right parties, and a few others that delude themselves into thinking they're anything but an enabler for the other two the implement their ideas.

    Since theres almost univesal agreement in Irish politics on the right economic policies, what else is there for new party to say?


    ASk the ordinary Irish person if they want a left or right wing government, they wont have a clue what you saying
    Yeh tose silly voters are so dum huh....
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Quote Originally Posted by The Collective.
    ASk the ordinary Irish person if they want a left or right wing government, they wont have a clue what you saying. Irish politics is fought on such trivial notions.
    Possably but I know people who vote left wing down the ticket. Labour/Green/Sinn Fein/Socialist Party.
    I think the majority vote centre; FF/FG. same thing really. those parties are divided by personalities.

    After that the remaining 35% of the elctorate is divided politically; left/right.
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Didn't we move to a post-PD phase in May 2007?

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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Quote Originally Posted by dns1971
    Didn't we move to a post-PD phase in May 2007?
    The party crashed. The politics survive.
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Quote Originally Posted by hiker
    Quote Originally Posted by dns1971
    Didn't we move to a post-PD phase in May 2007?
    The party crashed. The politics survive.
    The issue now being that there are few around to support the politics. FF will drop the PDs economics like a hot snot whenever it becomes politically expedient to do so, even for short term gain.
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Quote Originally Posted by CookieMonster
    Quote Originally Posted by hiker
    Quote Originally Posted by dns1971
    Didn't we move to a post-PD phase in May 2007?
    The party crashed. The politics survive.
    The issue now being that there are few around to support the politics. FF will drop the PDs economics like a hot snot whenever it becomes politically expedient to do so, even for short term gain.
    ......... or for long term gain.
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Quote Originally Posted by CookieMonster
    Quote Originally Posted by hiker
    Quote Originally Posted by dns1971
    Didn't we move to a post-PD phase in May 2007?
    The party crashed. The politics survive.
    The issue now being that there are few around to support the politics. FF will drop the PDs economics like a hot snot whenever it becomes politically expedient to do so, even for short term gain.
    Yes Im sure FFs plans for single payer health care, a tax rise on all over 100 000 and nationalized natural resources are JUST around the corner....
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    Re: The Political system post PDs, Centre vs Centre?

    Quote Originally Posted by Defeated Romanticist
    Now that the PDs appear to have exited stage right, they may have taken with them the diversity in Irish politics. In the future we may be left with a Fianna Fáíl-Green alliance on one side and a Fine Gael-Labour one on the other, two coalitions of the centre right and centre left. Or will the fall of the PDs prove to be creative and make a new reality in Irish politics?
    Which one is centre left and which one is centre right? It's a bit confusing trying to spot the difference.

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