Independents and Others have intrinsic value, but very often votes parked in that column are votes that are really saying “I have nothing and nobody to vote for”.
Irish Media Minister Catherine Martin has said that it would be the job of the government’s new Electoral Commission to “monitor” what communications are “appropriate” during Irish elections, when asked about billionaire Elon Musk’s comments to her last week. Last Friday, Gript asked Martin about new EU regulations around so-called “misinformation,” and the potential impact […]
Fianna Fáil Finance Minister Michael McGrath says his party “will be held accountable for our term in the current government” – not for the economic woes of a decade ago – and that he expects a General Election to take place in Spring of 2025.
The failure of the Right in Spain, however discouraging, should not be projected onto the Right in Europe generally.
Machiavellian.
No political party, after all, has ever won votes by criticising the popular people in the country.
“It is the kind of thing that only a fundamentally unserious party, or country, would do.”
The difficulty with the Greens is that they cannot by definition tailor their policies to the concerns of the voters, because their very rationale for existing is to over-ride and repress the concerns of the voters.
It’s worth noting that both Fine Gael and Sinn Féin are now led by privately educated Dubliners
Exodus of TDs and poll plunges.
“Never say never,” he said previously.
The odd thing about this is that it is both true, and, in its own way, admirable