Independent Councillor Michael Fleming, whose base in the south of the constituency is considerable and whom many smart observers are expecting to be in contention for a seat.
Do they set themselves apart from their left-leaning competitors?
Sinn Féin’s #GE24 manifesto calls the Irish hate speech bill “a form of censorship” and says they voted against it. Ben Scallan puts it to Mary Lou McDonald that her party voted for it unanimously and tried to expand it to make illegal immigrants a protected class in Irish law.
#GE24 Ben Scallan asked Fine Gael Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe if an Irish “Department of Government Efficiency” would be worth considering. Donohoe shot down the idea: “Our State, overall, does serve our country well…[it] does much of its work efficiently.”
Another party to move Ireland in a socialist direction.
Welfarism
I don’t watch RTE, personally. Five minutes of it the other night was enough of a reason to remind me why.
If they want to control what journalists can say, expect ordinary citizens to be next.
As goes Prosperous, so goes Ireland?
We got about three minutes, right at the end, on immigration. Before that, we had a lengthy and sleep-inducing section on climate change, which per polling is the top concern of about 1% of voters, almost all of whom live in Montrose.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says she wants an “efficient” immigration system “that means that those who need protection in our country are integrated”. #GE24
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says it is “disappointing” that some political parties didn’t publish a manifesto before the general election debate, meaning their policies couldn’t be as scrutinised. #GE24