[Mícheál Lehane] PBP launch manifesto promising a living wage of €15 an hour, scrapping USC for those earning less than €100K, building 35,000 social and affordable homes every year, weekly welfare payments of €350 and State pension of €300.

by badger-biscuits

46 comments

  1. Its pretty easy to offer just about anything when you have zero chance of getting into power.

  2. Why? explain it to me please, why in the Colin Farrell man bun hell are people still using twitter

  3. Honestly they could offer anything they want, they aren’t getting into government.

  6. >weekly welfare payments of €350

    Paying those on a welfare payment an amount that is a lot closer to something liveable.

    Sounds like vote-buying. And you bet your ass that my local PBP option is jumping up my ballot, so it’s working!

  7. PBP can promise dedicated unicorn lanes on all dual carriageways.

    Same chance of that happening as anything else they promise as they’ll not be in a position to make it happen.

  8. 350euro a week. Fuck it. I’m quitting my job and taking one of those 35000 houses. I don’t have to worry about USC anyway…

  9. PBP have no intention of ever entering government and having to make difficult decisions or balance budgets etc.

    Hurlers on the ditch …

  10. I could just imagine Paul Murphy being sand bagged daily and not being able to give out about it.

  11. I wish some party came out and said it how it was realistically we can do this on housing health and immigration we’re not going to shoot for the stars but what we’ve proposed we’ll actually delivery. It’s mad to think the strongest party polling have done nothing for the last 5 years with any conviction and there favourites to go back into power it’s mental how little we as nation are willing to accept.

  12. living wage is one thing but not too many companies offer the living wage

  14. €350 a week is a joke of a number and designed to con the most credulous to vote for PBP. It exposes them as an unserious party who specifically court the welfare classes with total fairytales.

  15. We are barely building 30k+ homes a year and the crusties seem to think they would be able to build 35k social houses 😂 if they give me one of these new homes and €300 a week I’ll happily quit my job.

  16. I had a look at their website, they’re listing 42 candidates for 174 TD positions

    Genuine question: In what scenario do they think they could get into government?

    I’m not trying to be smart, I genuinely don’t understand

  17. How many candidates are they planning on putting up though ?

    Is there a financial plan for all of this ?

  19. 30 days holidays and another 2 bank holidays? Please go right ahead

  20. In their budget alt doc they mentioned upping CGT to 40% but I don’t see it even highlighted here.

  21. Surely worth a punt anyway,

    compared to what we have already?

  22. It will be no PBP voters who will be expected to pay for all of this.

    PBP should just be honest and say that they will continue making loud noises complaining about the government. That’s what you vote for.

  24. It’s nice to see specifics being proposed, and these are actually pretty decent. They can’t achieve them by themselves, but it might be possible with a coalition.

    I’m not a PBP fan, but credit where it’s due. SF could learn from this.

  25. Reading these comments makes me wish I could have the miserable outlook of a radical centrist. Anyways looking forward to a few more years of centrist misery

  27. Truly insane manifesto, you can’t radically reform every area of government, and give every group more money, and fewer expenses all at once. The economy would crash, and all those areas being rapidly expanded in responsibilities would be overwhelmed with the pressure put on them. Like with healthcare. How do you plan to reduce waiting times, increase the number of beds in use, and overall make things quicker while also planning to make everything free and easier to access. By completely rejecting the private sector the health system would just be more overwhelmed than it already is.

    Their only plan for that basically seems to be “tax the rich”. But those rich people will simply move elsewhere and take their money with them. Increasing the corporation tax to 20% is crazy also. Literally cutting down the money tree because they don’t like what it represents.

    Not a serious party

  28. They can promise whatever the fuck they want!

    That’s the joys of being a permanent radical opposition party. They will never be expected to deliver on their hilariously unrealistic promises.

    It will be interesting to see how many seats Sinn Fein lose and whether or not this benefits parties on the left or independents.

  31. Ayyy that sounds awesome

    I’m really looking forward to the detailed costing analysis they’ve carried out! Can anyone link it?

  32. Yeah where’s this bottomless pit of money. How about making it less attractive to be on the scrath

  33. All those promises go out the window if in government, let’s be honest

  35. I approached this with an open mind but it’s pretty incoherent. Honestly while the politics is different it lives in the same world as Trump in terms of throwing hundreds of ideas and not really prioritising or thinking them through.

    Let’s take for example the one in there about banning B2 or lower properties from the private rental sector. What do they think that would mean, landlords would spend hundreds of thousands upgrading or they’d sell them? How do they square this with the eviction ban they mention?

  36. Standard manifesto from PBP loaded with great ideas. I’m a fan. Always give them a preference.

    Though the absolute preoccupation with left-wing parties who love cutting tax is bananas to me.

  37. 350 euro, what’s the incentive to work, that’s close to being equivalent to 30 hours of work to take home that income

  39. It’s a like a race to the bottom with wasted spending.

  40. Tbh, surprised he didn’t promise more, PBP have no intention of ever being in government, they proved that when SF reached out last election to try and make a government and PBP almost cried at the possibly of actually being responsible instead of shouting from the sidelines, never saw a party fall over itself trying so hard to not get into power.

  42. Far left party promises a mix of Fine Gael (cut usc) and Fianna Fáil measures (raise pension ).

  46. Ireland must be the only country in the world where the left wing parties campaign on cutting taxes of that of the right wing government

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