General Election Thread

[The Heretic]

So, any of ye in The Monk's constituency?   
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/10/anybody-can-run-mary-lou-mcdonald-unfazed-by-gerry-hutchs-election-bid/

It could be worse, he could be a teacher

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

 

[Trev]

Is there any place that just gives a quick breakdown of each TDs voting history in the dail?

Been having a look on the Oireachtas site and can see full debates and how each member went, but looking for something much more simplified

[astfgyl]

Is there any place that just gives a quick breakdown of each TDs voting history in the dail?

Been having a look on the Oireachtas site and can see full debates and how each member went, but looking for something much more simplified

I think there's a way to do it. I have some of them, like the hate speech one and the vaccine passports one and the one where they turned down the proposal to charge 100 percent stamp duty to vulture funds but I got them off twitter. Leave it with me until this evening unless someone digs you out before then. Are there any specific deal breaker ones you're after?

[mickO)))]

Was an excel file going around last year showing the names of who did and didn't vote for the hate speech thing. It will probably appear again now during the week.

[astfgyl]

So, any of ye in The Monk's constituency?   
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/10/anybody-can-run-mary-lou-mcdonald-unfazed-by-gerry-hutchs-election-bid/

It could be worse, he could be a teacher

Fuckin hell. Is he in Mary Lou's area? If he was, and did better than her it would be hilarious but also extremely depressing if he did well at all.

The calibre of candidate put forward in this country never fails to depress me.

The lads here in tipp are piss poor, so it'll be Lowry in the North and Mattie in the South as independents and the rest will be party men or women. Absolutely nothing to get excited about. I know one of the independents here and he's a sound skin and whatever but I seriously doubt he'll do the numbers. And I know the Sinn Fèin lad as well but he's out of the reckoning for me in the GE and he already knows it.

Every 5 years I think it's a missed opportunity for all those Judean People's Front and People's Front of Judea style parties who just can't get their shit together to form any coherent alternative. 

[John Kimble]

The Monk stuff is depressing. The lad may well be revered in his locality but this perception of him as an "ordinary decent criminal" is wide of the mark. He was complicit, whether directly or indirectly, in an ongoing feud which cost the lives of numerous persons, his own family included. You can make the argument that much of the political class are crooks in their own right but anyone who really believes that this prick has the best interests of the working class at heart needs to give their head a wobble.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

So I pointed to Simon Harris on the leaflet and asked were they fully behind his "new energy"?

https://x.com/RebelTVIreland/status/1855976730382508459

(Ignore the PBP slogan at the end as ye see fit  )

[The Heretic]

So I pointed to Simon Harris on the leaflet and asked were they fully behind his "new energy"?

https://x.com/RebelTVIreland/status/1855976730382508459

(Ignore the PBP slogan at the end as ye see fit  )

Perfect!!!

[Trev]

Is there any place that just gives a quick breakdown of each TDs voting history in the dail?

Been having a look on the Oireachtas site and can see full debates and how each member went, but looking for something much more simplified

I think there's a way to do it. I have some of them, like the hate speech one and the vaccine passports one and the one where they turned down the proposal to charge 100 percent stamp duty to vulture funds but I got them off twitter. Leave it with me until this evening unless someone digs you out before then. Are there any specific deal breaker ones you're after?

Ah nothing really in particular,there was a graphic going around a while ago of the sanctions against Israel and who went against, thought it'd be good to see something similar for the other motions

Plus at the local/euro elections a while back, the Fianna Fail TD came canvassing for their guy running. My wife who's a nurse tore fucking strips off him because he voted against pay for the student nurses during covid. Was beautiful to see  Be nice to pull something like that out for any of the others who knock on the door

[The Heretic]

Now this is more like it, back in the day there wasn't a poster that didn't get the groucho marx treatment or a dick drawn on it...

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections-2024/obviously-someone-didnt-like-my-face-election-hopefuls-react-after-faces-cut-out-from-posters/a1964190355.html

[astfgyl]

So I pointed to Simon Harris on the leaflet and asked were they fully behind his "new energy"?

https://x.com/RebelTVIreland/status/1855976730382508459

(Ignore the PBP slogan at the end as ye see fit  )

    

Perfect!!

There's another beaut doing the rounds of the poster up in front of a homeless lad sleeping rough as well

[open face surgery]

So, any of ye in The Monk's constituency?   
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/10/anybody-can-run-mary-lou-mcdonald-unfazed-by-gerry-hutchs-election-bid/

Yep. He's got my number 1 

[Grim Reality]

I'll probably vote Fine Gael again. Centrist party with a little lean to the right. Experienced in running boring things. I'm not loaded but I'm not poor. Life is good. I can eat and drink whatever I like whenever I like. I can heat my home. I have a car. I have as much potential leisure activities as I could possibly imagine. People are obsessed with bad news and the idea that life and society is on a downward trajectory. If I step back and observe my own circumstances I'd have to admit things are pretty good, all things considered.

No way would I vote for thinly veiled cowboys like SF. No way would I vote for the insane PBP. Labour is pro dole so I'm out. Forever. The rest? A few maverick independents and non entity parties?? No. Not good enough.

I'll go with the central crowd that helped bring Ireland from a third world shithole 100 years ago to one of the best places to live on the planet. Warts n all!

[astfgyl]

What Grim Reality describes there is exactly why they will get straight back in.

I strongly disagree with a lot of it but those views are by far the most common and I can see why people would think it.

There is no credible alternative at all