TDs Stephen Donnelly, Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy
Anne-Marie McNally writes:
TDs Catherine Murphy, Róisín Shortall, and Stephen Donnelly have agreed to launch an exciting new political venture. Speaking today the three TDs confirmed they have been engaged in ongoing discussions for some time. An event will take place on Wednesday to outline further details.
In a joint statement the three TDs said: “We are excited to be working together to offer a new credible political choice to the Irish electorate.” No further comment will be made until the event on Wednesday.
There you go now.
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A glimmer of hope? I’d like to say so but…
meadowdark maybe…
Roisin is the odd one out. She is anti cans in the gaf, pro VFI.I just can’t go for that.
I was just thinking that myself.
To be fair, i think she is more anti-alcohol abuse. Ham-fisted approach at times (alcohol at sports events etc.) but I wouldn’t discount her completely due to that.
+1
I don’t doubt her completely, she seems to be a principled person.
That said, I enjoy a couple of tins from Aldi at weekend. I think the usual solution proposed for my form of alcohol abuse, is making the supermarkets charge more.
Or if you are the VFI, making the supermarkets charge the same as pubs, to encourage social drinking. Or making me drink in pubs, where the specialist in alcohol problems, who works behind the bar, keeps an eye on everyone to make sure they are not becoming alcoholics.
Whilst I accept that alcohol addiction is a major problem, I fail to see why this problem should be restricted to the relatively wealthy.
anything anti DOB is worth a voting preference
Yes, voting based on one man is clearly a worthwhile vote.
Depends who the man is, what power they wield and how they wield it.
But you already knew that.
Let me rephrase.
You are an idiot if you throw away your vote on DOB.
But you (hopefully) already knew that.
I’d suggest that being anti-DO’B represents something quite a bit more than being against one individual. Might be anti- a system that perpetuates and rewards dodgy deal, unfair patronage, privilege etc?
He already knew that :)
What do you think a presidential election is?
DOB columnist
I can’t go for that. No-o-o. No can do
Well it’s a lot more credible than Renua…. fine gael light/right
Correct, though it takes very little to beat Renua on credibility.
True enough
So this lot, Shane Ross’ ‘gang’, Renua, whatever AAA formation settles together by 2016… Do you think they have any chance of breaking through or will they just get lost in the ‘Others’ pile?
As much as I like some of them individually, it’s waaaay too close to the general election for any of them to get much momentum now. Especially with three or four new groups all shouting at once.
Are they going to consider going into government? If not, it’s hard to vote for someone who doesn’t want to turn your vote into actual change. If yes, are they going to get blamed by the dumb Irish electorate for the larger party’s policies and get wiped out?
Best of luck to them all in theory, anyway.
This. Useless opposition or meat for the coalition grinder…
@ miko
…meat for the coalition grinder…
That’s it, on the button…
Too true,unfortunately.
I think it is the long game approach for this group. Unlike Ross and co. it would seem they are not trying to position themselves for the GE. They would have won their seats anyway so grouping under a banner of democratic socialism wouldn’t be harmful (depending on who they recruit maybe) but i wouldn’t consider it useless either.
These are my demands:
Stop raping my pension. Stop pretending Irish is compulsory. Stop kowtowing to the church. That about covers it.
I believe the term you’re looking for is praping.
Ireland is run from business overseas. It matters not who sits in the theatre down Kildare St.
…Peter Sutherland…boss of bosses eh…who knew?
Great stuff. We’ll do well then. At least we aren’t being run by the feckin eejits that pass for an electorate here. We’d probably look a lot like that failed state Greece then….
@ miko;
I was beginning to like you, a couple of comments ago.
You showed promise.
You let me down.
Carry on, I’m used to it.
Jeebus. Yet another “new” party. How long is the ballot paper going to be?
Yes, saving paper and fewer choices is exactly what we need more of. You’d have my vote!
It will be exactly as long as it would have been if these were all independants.
This is due to the fact that the length of a ballot paper is dependant on the number of candidates in a constituency and not the number of politcal parties.
A credible choice given their track record
Every alternative to the status quo should be welcomed. (Not you Lucinda, I said ‘alternative’!)
It might take a couple more elections before we have ourselves a cohesive party, a viable contender.
Sinn Féin and a bunch of Independents isn’t what we want or need, but we’ll get that before we get what we deserve. It’s coming. It’s gonna hurt.
It could be argued, (not by me) that a Social Democrat party is every bit not the alternative to Labour as Renua are not the alternative to Fine Gael.
Given that Labour, politicallt, are basically a Social Democratic party with Union connections.
Imagine a government you could trust to looking after your best interests.
Go on, try.
Try harder.
You’re right.
It can’t be done…
…it can’t even be imagined.
We don’t trust, hence the scrutiny.
Enda and friends must be rubbing their hands in glee at the preponderance of new parties or groupings along with the plethora of independents this close to an election. They can smell a Dáil majority.
I smell a short-lived ‘government’.
It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
As John In The Closet once sang, ‘Greece is the word.’
InB4U;
Needs more Grease!!!
I’m going to try to sleep now.
Thanks for reading.
It will be a full term FF/FG coalition.
This is Ireland, after all.
The fragmentation of groups tells us…what exactly? The centre is a crowded place? This group and Shane’s would have previously slotted into FG.
The AAA/whatever they are today will probably go into freefall based on the Greek situation.
I’d vote for them.
There are only 3, at most, you’d be able to ive one a preference. What configuration would they be part of? FG, them and Lucinda probably.
Can anyone tell me why the Greek finance minister resigned. They won the referendum, he was on the same page as Tsipras, why step down?