should sinn fein be next government

[tony1]

should sinn fein be next government . yes for me

[happy shy lad]

YES look at all the other party's they have being in Government at some stage and look at the mess they left us in. We have some great TD and Sinn Fein have some candidates in Dail at the moment. OUR DAY WILL COME.......................

[warmcome]

should sinn fein be next government . yes for me

no more 'governments' the people must take possession

[HairyPotter]

Doesn't matter, sadly nothing will change,

[Clyde]

You are fucking joking right?

[warmcome]

[willie wacker]

No No No.
They have the same policies as the French gov and they are now fecked, their popularity is sinking faster than the Titanic
Their in clothing

[2camp]

will it make any difference who gets in, I don't believe it will

[warmcome]

will it make any difference who gets in, I don't believe it will

if the people get in? things have to get worse sometimes...

[willieh]

Sometimes when a party is in opposition, they can propose, and object to, whatever they like without ever being faced with the reality of responsibility. The reality is being in government and of having to accept responsibility (either on their own or in coalition) is a whole different matter.

Take the North of Ireland for example. Westminster subsidises that failed state (and it has failed to the extent that it is and cannot be under the present model even approaching self financing) to the tune of one billion pounds Sterling a week. The very core and essence of Sinn Féin policy is to achieve a United Ireland. But does anyone really think that SF would even allow or permit such a reunification to come about without this massive funding gap being covered? They would lose so much support up North in the immediate aftermath that they would never recover from it. Similarly SF supporters "down south" would never accept huge tax increases and drastic drops in the level and extent of public services such as health and schools just to fund this reunification. And if it actually happened and the foregoing was to occur, just see how many votes they would get subsequently? They would be annihilated.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under King Louis XIV. To him is attributed the famous observation : "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."

There would be some amount of hissing both North and South of the border then.

I do see that McGuinness and Adams, after the Scottish referendum, are calling for a border poll but that cynically is only because they see what Scotland will gain financially from the close "no" vote.

All parties in government end up having to be someway responsible given the serious financial and economic responsibilities that will result. After all they know they will face a new election in less than five years (if not sooner!) (Sure is that not why Fine Gael have appointed the putative candidate to the cultural panel in the Seanad to the Board of the Museum of Modern Act in Dublin - the very body they have determined and sworn to abolish?) As Bill Clinton famously said: "It is the economy, stupid". Just look at the Scots; they voted with their pockets, not their hearts!)

But then perhaps I am just cynical too.

(On a separate soap box, it always gets my goat that the people down south still in Plato's cave are happy to encourage those living in the North to have SF in government whilst equally happily tutting and shaking their heads at any suggestion that they might have to accept them in government south of the border. To continue the goose analogy, what is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander.)