Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll: Sinn Féin 35 per cent (up three); Fine Gael 20 per cent (down two); Fianna Fáil 20 per cent (no change) https://t.co/j8pAhY0Vc1 pic.twitter.com/FGCQL2c8e6
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) December 10, 2021
This morning.
Via Irish Times:
The state of the parties, when undecided voters and those unlikely to vote are excluded, is as follows: Sinn Féin 35 per cent (up three); Fine Gael 20 per cent (down two); Fianna Fáil 20 per cent (no change); Green Party 5 per cent (down two); Labour 4 per cent (no change); and Independents/others 15 per cent (up three). All of the above figures are rounded, which accounts for the total of 99 per cent.
Among the Independents and smaller parties, the results are as follows: Social Democrats 2 per cent (down one); Solidarity-People Before Profit 2 per cent (no change); Aontú 1 per cent (no change); and Independents 11 per cent (up one).
Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll: Support for Sinn Féin reaches new record (Irish Times)
1200 in the sample. Big enough?
Sinn Fein are playing a stormer.
They have kept their heads down and done nothing since the general election.
…sometimes the best move,is no move.
‘All I Want For Christmas Is a United Ireland Sweatshirt‘
https://www.sinnfeinbookshop.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-united-ireland-sweatshirt/
True.
Says a lot about how poorly the government parties are doing, if SF literally don’t have to do anything at all to achieve such popularity.
they are like a rebound boyfriend who’s qualities are just not being anything like the last boyfriend
Isn’t that what Biden done with Trump?
As the strong silent type,some my own ‘popularity’ could be attributed to literally doing absolutely nothing,other than making great coffee and always having phenomenal weed:)
Hope things are good Millie, best with the little one.
‘…. a YouGov poll for The Times found that Labour had a four-point lead, its biggest since January when the country was in the middle of the winter lockdown‘
Protest vote,low 30’s I’d think is more sustainable for SF.
Personally I think the Shinners’ popularity (and I am no fan of them whatsoever) is actually down to one single issue. Now, of course they haven’t actually done anything in the area but they are at least making the right noises in relation to housing to give some hope to beleagured younger folks.
Darragh O’Brien with his sleeveen used-car salesman approach to housing policy appears to have the innate talent of driving anyone under 35 toward the Shinners who long for something other than skyrocketing rents, a red carpet approach to vulture-fund BTRs (of course they are needed in part but where is the concomittant supply of urban homes/apartments to buy?) and a grim semi-rural semi-D as the only option for most. And the latter is a big “if”.
Do I think the Shinners will overhaul a grotesquely dysfunctional housing market for the better? No, absolutely not.
Do I blame younger voters for turning to the Shinners (in desperation). No, absolutely not.
…alas, the shinners and movement for change seem to have missed their chance…the core FFG vote and labour already stating they will form the third leg of the stool …in a worst case scenario the FFG genepool can be relied upon…
+1 bisted
that’s the way it looks to me anyway
the last election was their moment, the element of surprise needed for *change is loooong gone
even if the local political class firewall were to fail because SF somehow achieve an overall majority
the establishments that Ireland inc. answer to are already prepared for that worst case, its already priced in
should SF find themselves in that hot seat they won’t have the necessary friends to change much of anything
*assuming their notion of “change” refers to bread and butter socio economic theme as opposed to their entire raison d’etre – 32 counties
FF FG OUT OUT OUT
Two thirds of Ireland sez no way.
Here come the letters in the Irish Times, Pat Leahy’s moan, and Tweets from Jennifer Carroll-MacNeil in Dun Laoghaire. The horror!
In fairness, every time MM and LV open their gobs about Covid or another planning permission is granted for hotels and co-living it’s another 5 points for Mary Lou.
Try, “Government’s handling of Covid-19 in schools.”
FG have nobody but themselves to blame. 50% of under 35s going for SF is entirely down to the housing crisis. Which, after 10 years in power, is entirely down to FG’s policy.
So in essence what we’re looking at is a continuation of the FG/FF alignment for the foreseeable. Good. While they certainly have their flaws its essential to keep that bunch of underworld thugs out of any office with responsibility. Its also essential to keep them out of office from an international credibility perspective. Global finance and investment would evaporate if we elected a terrorist organisation to parliament. Anyone how thinks thigs are bad now wouldn’t know what hit them after a few years of these degenerates. There’s no such thing as free stuff and lets face it, apart form bank robberies, they don’t do well when it comes to counting
What we wanted in the last election was for change and what we got was the same old outdated politics by two redundant parties, we shall overcome
It looks like the far left will drop a seat or two and Aontu will retain its one seat. Try figuring the meaning of that.