We’ll see. If all the infrastructure and projects they’ve spaffed billions on plans and consultancy for actually see the light of day. As it stands they couldn’t even deliver the poxy bus lanes that have been planned since 2014 in Dublin. Not a single new kilometre of rail opened. Still burning coal for energy, giving us one of Europe’s dirty grids.
I don’t see any results that say it was worth it, and right now I’m glad to see the greens burn in their hubris, especially the throng that hang around reddit.
‘As he leaves Leinster House’??
Did someone just wake him up ffs.
The Irish electorate are so unserious. Vote for a small party, they go in and implement a huge amount of their manifesto despite only being 10 seats, give them a bartering in the next election and preference to some other small parties who don’t make the same mistake of entering government. Complain about how nothing ever changes.
Completely out of touch with the rest of society
Pulling the knob off himself while thinking of more tax for the little people. Almost exactly the same thinking (from kind of opposite directions) as the PDs, interesting.
Friends of the Earth rated their manifesto third out of all of the parties before the election, behind that of Labour and the SocDems!
If the Green Party can’t even manage to have the most environmentally-friendly manifesto, well…
In 4yrs the Green Party didn’t deliver 1 metre of new railway line. You cant even get a cup of tea on the train from Galway to Dublin. They are very good at telling people that they cant do stuff from a position of moral superiority but don’t come to them looking for solutions.
People keep referring to the fact that they survived a wipeout before so they can survive one again as if thats a good thing. They were in power twice and the people of Ireland couldn’t get them out the door quick enough both times. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I’ll be shocked if we see any sort of resurgence from the greens in the next 10yrs.
Clown.
The Green(washing) Party – pushing through carve-outs for LNG in one of their last acts in government.
The parties shills are some of the most onerous I’ve seen online since the Libertarians.
Ireland needs an actual environmental/climate party – not a faction of FG masquerading as a ‘green’ party.
Jeez, looking at comments here, you would think that Greens have some big fan base that down votes any critique into oblivion.
Have you considered that most people are broke and don’t want their cost of living to go up for a Marxist agenda that only benefits the people pushing it who are already incredibly wealthy? Hopefully this party pushed by college students and academic “thought leaders” with no real world experience fades into nothingness soon.
He didn’t rewild the wolves….can’t see them rebounding until this happens
The media need to stop giving these green lunatics airtime.
As a conscientious climate supporter i wouldn’t vote for them, they are all ideologic and no solutions. They set a target for 1,000,000 EVs on the road and what do they do, cut the grant year on year. Solar panels, cutting the grant. Only really new houses can run on a heat pump alone, most 70/80/90/00 stock generally need a backup oil or gas burner for the heat pump, but rather than use wood pellet as its carbon neutral, they decide no, there is only a grant for heat pump and let people buy the cheaper gas or oil burner even though we are supposed to be reducing the use of them.
Then there is shannon and upgrading of the port for future off shore wind turbines, that harbour should have got funding for development 4 years ago not having to wait until this May for the “Future Framework” so now the port will spend about 4 years in planning, design and the courts before they can start.
Greens were all talk and no action, I long for a serious environmental party, with solutions not “flights of fancy”.
For those not old enough to remember they proudly proclaimed that every primary school would have a footpath to it back when in power with FF just before the crash.
The gas* thing is the Green economy is where there will be some serious growth in the next few decades.
We could do far far worse going all in on the tech/infrastructure and power generation, sustainable airline fuel, green data centres etc.
But people are too shortsighted to see it.
Oh and it would be good for the country/planet as well… :/
I think the greens always tied their environmental policies with some idea of “Social Justice”
Their own policy includes
>brings a fairer economic model for everyone
>secure a more equal Ireland
This IMO confined and limited their ideas to ones that simply resulted in more taxation or bureaucracy.
The lower cost of public transport was an exception.
I’d like a Green Party that focuses on the environment and is not afraid to propose solutions like nuclear energy and large tax breaks etc.
Do we really need a green party? Surely we could just have green policies and the mono-focused green party could be something closer to a lobby group or think tank.
The comments show up the greens’ biggest issue. They are never able to celebrate or advertise any of their achievements. Most people are unaware of what they managed.
The greens got a lot done despite FFG.
With the minority partner looking to be a bunch of right wing independents next government, I think people are going to realise just how much positive stuff the greens actually got through.
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This time their demise is probably for good.
We’ll see. If all the infrastructure and projects they’ve spaffed billions on plans and consultancy for actually see the light of day. As it stands they couldn’t even deliver the poxy bus lanes that have been planned since 2014 in Dublin. Not a single new kilometre of rail opened. Still burning coal for energy, giving us one of Europe’s dirty grids.
I don’t see any results that say it was worth it, and right now I’m glad to see the greens burn in their hubris, especially the throng that hang around reddit.
‘As he leaves Leinster House’??
Did someone just wake him up ffs.
The Irish electorate are so unserious. Vote for a small party, they go in and implement a huge amount of their manifesto despite only being 10 seats, give them a bartering in the next election and preference to some other small parties who don’t make the same mistake of entering government. Complain about how nothing ever changes.
Completely out of touch with the rest of society
Pulling the knob off himself while thinking of more tax for the little people. Almost exactly the same thinking (from kind of opposite directions) as the PDs, interesting.
Friends of the Earth rated their manifesto third out of all of the parties before the election, behind that of Labour and the SocDems!
If the Green Party can’t even manage to have the most environmentally-friendly manifesto, well…
In 4yrs the Green Party didn’t deliver 1 metre of new railway line. You cant even get a cup of tea on the train from Galway to Dublin. They are very good at telling people that they cant do stuff from a position of moral superiority but don’t come to them looking for solutions.
People keep referring to the fact that they survived a wipeout before so they can survive one again as if thats a good thing. They were in power twice and the people of Ireland couldn’t get them out the door quick enough both times. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I’ll be shocked if we see any sort of resurgence from the greens in the next 10yrs.
Clown.
The Green(washing) Party – pushing through carve-outs for LNG in one of their last acts in government.
The parties shills are some of the most onerous I’ve seen online since the Libertarians.
Ireland needs an actual environmental/climate party – not a faction of FG masquerading as a ‘green’ party.
Jeez, looking at comments here, you would think that Greens have some big fan base that down votes any critique into oblivion.
Have you considered that most people are broke and don’t want their cost of living to go up for a Marxist agenda that only benefits the people pushing it who are already incredibly wealthy? Hopefully this party pushed by college students and academic “thought leaders” with no real world experience fades into nothingness soon.
He didn’t rewild the wolves….can’t see them rebounding until this happens
The media need to stop giving these green lunatics airtime.
As a conscientious climate supporter i wouldn’t vote for them, they are all ideologic and no solutions. They set a target for 1,000,000 EVs on the road and what do they do, cut the grant year on year. Solar panels, cutting the grant. Only really new houses can run on a heat pump alone, most 70/80/90/00 stock generally need a backup oil or gas burner for the heat pump, but rather than use wood pellet as its carbon neutral, they decide no, there is only a grant for heat pump and let people buy the cheaper gas or oil burner even though we are supposed to be reducing the use of them.
Then there is shannon and upgrading of the port for future off shore wind turbines, that harbour should have got funding for development 4 years ago not having to wait until this May for the “Future Framework” so now the port will spend about 4 years in planning, design and the courts before they can start.
Greens were all talk and no action, I long for a serious environmental party, with solutions not “flights of fancy”.
For those not old enough to remember they proudly proclaimed that every primary school would have a footpath to it back when in power with FF just before the crash.
The gas* thing is the Green economy is where there will be some serious growth in the next few decades.
We could do far far worse going all in on the tech/infrastructure and power generation, sustainable airline fuel, green data centres etc.
But people are too shortsighted to see it.
Oh and it would be good for the country/planet as well… :/
I think the greens always tied their environmental policies with some idea of “Social Justice”
Their own policy includes
>brings a fairer economic model for everyone
>secure a more equal Ireland
This IMO confined and limited their ideas to ones that simply resulted in more taxation or bureaucracy.
The lower cost of public transport was an exception.
I’d like a Green Party that focuses on the environment and is not afraid to propose solutions like nuclear energy and large tax breaks etc.
Do we really need a green party? Surely we could just have green policies and the mono-focused green party could be something closer to a lobby group or think tank.
The comments show up the greens’ biggest issue. They are never able to celebrate or advertise any of their achievements. Most people are unaware of what they managed.
The greens got a lot done despite FFG.
With the minority partner looking to be a bunch of right wing independents next government, I think people are going to realise just how much positive stuff the greens actually got through.
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