Fine Gael on Twitter – Sinn Féin’s record in government speaks for itself: higher rents, higher property tax, and a higher pension age.

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  3. This is refreshing to see SF attacked on their policies rather than on the past.

    Although I reckon the “online activists” have been well briefed on how to respond.

    Everything good that happens in the north SF will take credit for, while everything bad is Westminster’s fault.

    Not a SF supporter and not a FG supporter. I do think Varadkar has a point here and it is what SF should be attacked on and not the past.

    Welfare cuts are a prime example of this. The assembly had powers over welfare in the north until 2015 (I think), they could not agree with the DUP about the budget and knew cuts had to be made, SF then voted to hand power to Westminster to make the required cuts.

    Shortly after this SF ran a campaign lambasting the Tories welfare cuts.

    If SF get into government down here and there is sacrifices to be made, hard decisions to be made will they

    – Collapse the government and hope somebody else does it.

    – Find a new bogeyman, blame the EU and move towards IREXIT.

  8. *”No you”*

    Playing within a greater system run and controlled by other nations via trade and economics.

    Of course they are all at it, see that world ALL….*”meaning : used to refer to the whole quantity or extent of a particular group or thing.”*

    It’s okay you all fucked up, now can you stop fighting each other and work together to fix shit.

  13. Classic deflection, put the eye on SF to take the eye off me

    In other words, the general public are fucking idiots and will believe anything I spew.

    Is there a plumber in the house.

    There’s another shit pipe burst.

  14. Whatever about the rest, I’ll be honest, I really don’t see how people are giving out about a higher pension age. People are living 20-30 years past retirement age with regularity and that is only going to continue. It’ll likely be 70 odd by the time I get there, and I think that’s fair enough.

  15. Leaving aside the ridiculousness of the whole comment but..

    1 – rents are not higher in Northern Ireland than the South/the Republic/26 counties/Ireland (take your pick). Perhaps when average earnings are taken into account they might be but I’d like to see those figures;
    2 – perhaps but it’s a method of funding;
    3 – is pension age not set at Westminster?

    Edit: apparently pensions have always been devolved to Stormont but not to Scotland or Wales.

  16. Yes the north has porportional representation and yet again yesterday a poster was on Reddit talking about Leo and the count he got in on.

    The facts are that SF voted to increase social housing rents, voted to increase the pension age and voted to send powers regarding welfare back to Westminster.

    These are facts, SF ran large parts of their election campaign down here on the pension age but up there they vote for it to be raised.

    If you cannot see the hypocrisy in this there is something wrong

  19. For a party that has literally never been in power in the history of the state, other parties really do like shitting all over SF.

    Almost like they’re scared to death they may actually earn their seats as opposed to being afforded them by divine right.

  21. Isn’t SF’s “record in government” the same as the DUP’s record in government, given that they’re in a power-sharing arrangement?

  22. Honestly, and I’ve said this before, how can a party so obsessed with PR be so dreadfully bad at it?

  24. The purpose of his comment is to deliberately rub the publics face in the fact that the housing crisis is deliberate policy by Fine Gael/Fianna Fail, and that the public is so powerless to do anything about it, that he can openly express total contempt for peoples lives like this without any consequence.

    The statement has nothing to do with Sinn Fein – it’s an expression of contempt aimed at every person living through the housing/rental crisis – it is _supposed to be_ grossly insulting to all of those people.

    That is what makes him popular among the class of people he serves. He can make policy that destroys peoples lives, and then spit in their face like this, and face no consequence for it.

  25. What record in government???
    Also, as is common with parties on the right, this entire statement is pure projection.

  26. Fair fucks to Sinn Fein, in a time when we’re all spending 35%+ of our income on rent you have to applaud them for managing to spend years rent free in Fine Gael’s head.

  29. Funny isn’t it lets slander SF to try and change the publics eye on the complete cluster fuck of issues we (FG) & FF have placed our nation in.

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