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Chances of a broadly acceptable political party

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marhay70
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Chances of a broadly acceptable political party

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What are the chances of Ireland producing a new acceptable political party, slightly to the left of centre? It seems every day and everywhere I go, I meet people who say they are heartily sick of the Civil War parties, but here we are, 100+ years on, still with one or other or both, controlling the country.
There have been attempts. Notably, the PDs, which had all the right qualifications but turned out to be to the right of Genghis Khan and riven with splits and rivalries, and anyway, were just a bunch of people disenchanted with their lot in the main parties and desirous of returning to the fold with a better standing.
I was hopeful at the inception of the PDs of a better option, and for a while, that seemed to be the case, but then came the dreaded woke disease, where every hard case is embraced in place of the Irish case. This places them in the same category as the Greens, who cannot be convinced that the Irish taxpayer is not responsible for the ills of the world and is incapable of fixing them.
This really is the nub of the matter, Ireland is a small rock in the Atlantic to the west of Europe, It is not responsible for, or capable of fixing the ills of the world, thirty years ago we couldn't fund medical cards for the most critically ill people in our society, now we are expected to feed, clothe and house the entire population of the Middle East and Africa, and still can't fund those necessities for our own people. This has got to stop, and it is unlikely to do so with the Bobbsey Twins leading the Government and our Ministers floating off to Europe to discuss billion dollar aid plans for Gaza or Syria or whatever other sob story is hitting the headlines this week. Time to look after the people who are funding your government and who are keeping you in the lifestyle to which you have become accustomed.
So is there a glimmer of hope ? Are there any aspiring politician who share the common Irish cause and haven't been bitten by the woke bug?

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Re: Chances of a broadly acceptable political party

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Increasing by the day I suspect but still very low right now.

Farage’s reform party seems to be popular in the UK and has forced Starmer to shift labour’s stance on immigration.
Last edited by knownunknown on Sun Jul 27, 2025 12:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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