Groupthink Ireland.
We don’t do things by halves, in Ireland – no mild experiment with Blairism for us. If we go left, we’re going to go proper left.
In the period before the referendum on repealing the 8th, Fianna Fáil TD Jack Chambers took some flak online for taking a pro-life stance. Things got ugly on Twitter, and the Dublin West TD eventually switched off his notifications. He supported a No vote in the referendum, but after the 8th was repealed, he voted […]
Perhaps the most frightening thing, if you are a Fianna Fáil partisan, is this: The party is on 15%, and it doesn’t seem to care.
The opposition, of course, always wants an election. Or to be precise, always pretends to want an election.
A Fianna Fáil Senator says that media should not have to give equal time to both sides on issues like climate change – even during a referendum campaign. @Ben_Scallan reacts.
“The government isn’t thinking this through.”
The Government has the tools, if it sees migrant numbers as a problem, to reduce them.
The real problem here is that all of this likely means that the next General election will see a result quite similar to the last one.
Is that so?
The political parties in the state barely compete with each other at all on issues that matter to the voters but compete with the utmost intensity on the issues that matter to an elitist group of NGOs and lobby groups.
“If you want to know Sinn Féin’s policy on anything, take the government policy, and multiply it by two.”