General Election

[Heisenberg30]

Haha no arguement there bro

Something the nation can agree on at last, a lady I’d love to pole

[Kenton]

Something the nation can agree on at last, a lady I’d love to pole

I'd vote for you on this alone, you've clearly got sound judgement.

[pegmyass85]

Mary Lou has no chance to become Taoiseach as SF arnt running enough candidates.

[pegmyass85]

To have a credible government 80 seats is what you'd need. SF are running 41 candidates. You really think all those parties will come together to form a government labour definitely won't.
Unfortunately for us FF will lead the next government, only thing is who'll be the junior party of there government

[peregine]

What if a coalition government was formed with sf the largest party? Sf, greens, labour, independents and a few smaller partys. Would they have enough seats then. How many seats does it take to form a goverment?

There are 158 seats in the Dail, so you need 80 to form a government.

[RickyBobby]

Mary Lou has no chance to become Taoiseach as SF arnt running enough candidates.

That might be true,

but she hasn't gone away you know.

[pegmyass85]

Never claimed she had. And for the record I voted for SF in the local elections. But I won't be voting in the GE at all. Honestly can't see the point nothing is going to change as none of the opposition parties run enough candidates to oust FF or FG from the big seats, and I refuse to vote in a party that can't possibly deliver the election manifesto. SF need to run more candidates to be considered genuine challengers for government and if/when they do I'll vote for them.

[Dub Lad]

Ok, here's my rant. Since the call of the general election I have become disillusioned with politics... What if Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have had secret conversations about forming the next government already, that this "canvassing period", is just something they have to do, going through the motions, what if Sinn Fein are actually happy being in opposition, get their few bob a week, pension, it is a cushy gig, what if we live in a sort of dictatorship but masquerading as democracy.

[joggon]

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