General election 2020 (10 Viewers)

[Cormcolash]

The IRA also tried to kill Thatcher, and if they'd succeeded, I'd still be saying "Fair enough"

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Point of order; they only tried to kill him.

Sustained

 

[Cormcolash]

Say what you want about the Sinners, their party political broadcast thing is easily the funniest of the lot just because it has this hilarious horn version of Come Out Ye Black And Tans at the start of it

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The IRA also tried to kill Thatcher, and if they'd succeeded, I'd still be saying "Fair enough"

Twice!

 

[ann post]

Brid Smith trying to save the potential left alliance.

Bríd Smith claims some Greens ‘raging’ about prospect of coalition

People Before Profit presses Sinn Féin to rule out going into government with Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

www.irishtimes.com

 

[ann post]

This occurred to me a bit over the last while where people are adamant to punish those who campaigned against repealing the 8th, regardless of what their other policies might be. One the one hand that's a complete distraction from the issues that are being fought out now. On the other, fuck them.

On one hand I'm a bit MOVE ON FUCKS SAKE PLANET TO SAVE and on the other hand some of the really terrifying feminists I know were looking at it and saying that the reversals on abortion in the USA are the seeds that might bring in reversed legislation in ireland down the line, which obvs would be much easier to do if the gov majority was made up of repeal opposition.

 

[Unicron]

On one hand I'm a bit MOVE ON FUCKS SAKE PLANET TO SAVE and on the other hand some of the really terrifying feminists I know were looking at it and saying that the reversals on abortion in the USA are the seeds that might bring in reversed legislation in ireland down the line, which obvs would be much easier to do if the gov majority was made up of repeal opposition.

There was a picture doing the rounds in the past week of all the TDs from FF that were against repeal. There's still a lot of them

 

[Lili Marlene]

Speaking of which, am I wrong to be a little worried at how well Justin Barrett's National Party might do? Fair few candidates up.

 

[ann post]

Speaking of which, am I wrong to be a little worried at how well Justin Barrett's National Party might do? Fair few candidates up.

Just counted ten on the website, 2-3 have the kind of profile that gets votes. It'll be interesting what the market is for them, if they returned all ten they'd probably make a handy DUP style crutch for FG/FF, who will slowly digest them, 1-2 will stick around as indies and the rest is history.

Though i have been wrong.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Unlike for instance Fine Gael, who started out as the Irish Nazi Party and then along the way became just another organised crime gang.

Fine Gael had a holocaust? They kept quiet about that.

 

[ann post]

Watched the complete headache that was tonights debate. Here is the summary of how parties responded to questions about coalition.

FG: No to SF, no to FF unless brexit is happening (it did).

FF: I swear I cant tell what he is saying, amazing politispeak.

LAB: Priority for GR, LAB, SD, PBP

SF + PBP: No support for FF/FG, priority for left alliance

SD + GR: Open to all post election.

 

[Cormcolash]

Fine Gael had a holocaust? They kept quiet about that.

Their founder O'Duffy would quite happily have helped Hitler out - he even offered to.

 

[rettucs]

Their founder O'Duffy would quite happily have helped Hitler out - he even offered to.

he helped Franco out. Franco was basically Hitler.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I'd love to see his reaction to Leo Varadkar leading the party.

 

[therealjohnny]

Speaking of which, am I wrong to be a little worried at how well Justin Barrett's National Party might do? Fair few candidates up.

Is aw a thing that said he had stepped down with immediate effect. Was that bullshit?

 

[rettucs]

I'd love to see his reaction to Leo Varadkar leading the party.

He's dead

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I know that....just imagining his reaction to an openly gay, mixed race guy running his party.

 

[rettucs]

I know that....just imagining his reaction to an openly gay, mixed race guy running his party.

they dug him up there the other month to bury him somewhere else. I suppose they could have asked him then.

 

[Unicron]

I was out last night but I understand that Ivan Yates made the virgin media debate into a bit of a shit show.

 

[hydromancer]

Yep it was a bit shouty at the start which I missed what did say at one point "after the break we will come back to love island"