Sinn Féin support hits lowest level in three years, falling by six points, poll shows – The Irish Times
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Sinn Féin support hits lowest level in three years, falling by six points, poll shows – The Irish Times
by Prestigious_Talk6652
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I swear I just read this article a few minutes ago with comments on here, but now it’s empty. Strange.
Can’t wait to see the utopia all these independents usher in.
The Irish Times, the same organisation that reported a huge theft of money last night but didn’t once mention the perp was an ex-Fine Gael councillor.
I called it at the time of the riots that SF’s promise-everyone-everything strategy had resulted in a base that had three major pillars and 1-2 of those would be alienated by the party’s stance on immigration and how it tries to portray itself as ultra-PC.
The three major pillars are, poorer working class areas, trendy-lefty student types and floating protest voters.
The first group aren’t near as pro-immigration as SF and have deep issues with it and increasingly the party. The second group are smaller but louder and their shitting on the first group has driven a bit of a schism between the party. The third group are people not at all tied to the party, don’t feel any allegiance to it and can float away as easily as they floated to the party. Many will do so over immigration.
I said it at the time that you could tell SF were rattled to the core by the riots. You could see it in their faces and most especially see it by how quiet they were in the aftermath. Normally SF politicians will try blanket every show and newspaper going in order to attack the government and offer no solutions of their own. After the riots you hardly heard a peep out of them compared to normal. Word had come back that most of the grassroots agreed with the rioters stance, if not with their methods.
Hence why SF have pivoted from being the party that calls everyone racists and uses political correctness as a weapon to now declaring people need to be allowed to have a discussion over immigration without being attacked.
It seems a bit of a reckoning is coming for SF as this is the one issue that they can’t try and ride two horses on and they’ll be forced to pick one and whittle down their base or risk losing support from all sides by trying to play all sides. People won’t accept that on this issue I believe.
No wonder Mary Lou and Pearse looked so shook in the aftermath of the riots, they took themselves as the next government elect and the election itself all but a formality as SF finally achieves it’s “destiny”. Now they’re looking defeat in the eye over flag-waving nationalism of all things. The universe has a sense of humour at least.
uncomfortable truth for shinners is that there is a decent % of their voting base who are pretty staunchly anti immigrant. look at what some of their current+ former reps have come out with in recent months.
Bobby Sands died for No Borders on the Island of Ireland, not Open Borders.
Sinn Fein has forgotten that.
It’s what happens where their kind of populist nationalism is just not racist enough for the new breed of populist nationalistic racists out there.
Finally people see sense.
This is what happens to populist parties when they have the ‘shit or get off the pot’ moments.
They’re losing their loonies
-6 points
At least another 4 to go
Mary-Lou goes missing whenever a big issue comes up. They gave it the large one about that they’re going to be the most effective opposition ever but it just feels like they are an arm of the government. They’ll back them on big issues and get pissy about irrelevant stuff.
Maybe it’s just my social media algorithms but I see stuff from SDs and Labour every day but nothing from Sinn Fein. I am a middle aged, straight, working class man, I am hardly the target market for SDs and Labour 😂
You know an election is near when support for SF in the polls drop.
Sinn Fein is a ‘catch-all’ party and caught all the votes from disgruntled voters – which is a considerable amount of people.
They have zero strategy for any of Ireland’s many issues. Just like the current Government.
A lot of people in here spouting takes without looking at the figures, Sinn Féin falling by 6% and their support not moving to independents, but mostly Greens/SocDems/Labour (5% collective gain). Reckon Sinn Féin’s pivoting might be alienating some of their more liberal supporters.
The only nationalist party in the world that favours mass immigration.
Bizarre.
Truly mind boggling, it appears a large cohort of voters are blaming Sinn Fein for the governments immigration policies, or at least taking their frustrations out on Sinn Fein. It’s especially confusing as Sinn Fein has never been an anti- immigration party, so not sure how these voters ever obtained that impression.
Hopefully people see sense before election time or else they will just be guaranteeing the continuation of the government they supposedly hate.