Preparing for govt. They won’t fluff their lines this time.
“in favour of setting up a commission”
There I was thinking they were looking to give us a more direct style of politics. But nope. They can’t even decide what they want to do.
So with an upcoming election they are doing a complete 180 on the policies that their core demographic supported?
Specifically the types of policies that got SF into this position in the first place.
And they are dropping them in favour of policies that are more in line with the current government parties? Specifically FF? Because a coalition with FF is the only way that SF will get into government??
WHAT A SHOCKER!!!
It’s almost like Sinn Fein are exactly the same as any other party and all of the “revolutionary” support they have gotten over the last 5 years is complete bullshit.
Who could have possibly seen this coming miles away?!?
Pussies.
Yay another commission. I can’t wait for them to rehash Varadkar’s excuses for ignoring the recommendations of their own commission.
There’s still plenty of lefty tax policies in their budget submission to satiate their base
Setting up a commission? Lol, as if enough bodies haven’t assessed Ireland’s tax policies already. Not that i disagree with getting expert opinion, but this just screams “offloading decision making” and intentional ambiguity on policy.
So the question is will SF become FF lite or FG lite after the next election? 🤔
Pretty weak stuff but it’s not a total climbdown at least.
That’s the trick to get into politics.
I think nickson coined it (or made it popular). Pick a side for policies (right or left) nice and far, gain momentum, and if you can time it right before the vote, pivot hard back into the centre.
The aim is to get enough votership both sides.
My issue, SF are popular by default because FGFF couldn’t be any more incompetent. By changing up policies now in attempt to please more they aleinate there for core.
Try to please everyone, you’ll please no one.
Sinn Fein are just like the other large parties now they are one. Remove anything that’ll scare the suburbs.
As a SF supporter – Bold fucking move to be making changes that’ll rattle a massive part of their base. They realistically have one term to get some footing by showing positive changes.
I already thought they were gobshites for wanting to scrap the HTB because “30% of people who got it didn’t need it” as if that doesn’t mean 70% of people did need it. Removing it isn’t going to lower house prices either, so it’ll just harm their supporters directly.
Bottlers.
Nearly every single country in Europe that has tried a wealth tax has ended up ditching it after seeing that they don’t work in practice. Credit to SF for actually listening to that evidence.
They are looking to incorporate a wealth tax but abolish property taxes? Make it make sense.
>Housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin outlined plans for a public housing programme delivering 21,000 social and affordable homes at a cost of €1.44 billion and one month’s rent rebate and a three-year rent freeze.
They’re going to build 21,000 houses for €68K each?
Are they going to be sheds?
Zero policies to increase housing supply. Why aren’t they following the Vienna model? There’s fucking nothing being suggested here that’s radical and we NEED a radical approach to our housing supply, not just leaving it to developers.
This was one of the core policies for them getting any support from me.
They will be a slightly more left version of FF at best
They’re all the same. I thought with voting SF we could at last try change the corruption but nothing will ever change.
Haha, all the clowns denying they’re just a new FF will be in furious denial.
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Preparing for govt. They won’t fluff their lines this time.
“in favour of setting up a commission”
There I was thinking they were looking to give us a more direct style of politics. But nope. They can’t even decide what they want to do.
So with an upcoming election they are doing a complete 180 on the policies that their core demographic supported?
Specifically the types of policies that got SF into this position in the first place.
And they are dropping them in favour of policies that are more in line with the current government parties? Specifically FF? Because a coalition with FF is the only way that SF will get into government??
WHAT A SHOCKER!!!
It’s almost like Sinn Fein are exactly the same as any other party and all of the “revolutionary” support they have gotten over the last 5 years is complete bullshit.
Who could have possibly seen this coming miles away?!?
Pussies.
Yay another commission. I can’t wait for them to rehash Varadkar’s excuses for ignoring the recommendations of their own commission.
There’s still plenty of lefty tax policies in their budget submission to satiate their base
Setting up a commission? Lol, as if enough bodies haven’t assessed Ireland’s tax policies already. Not that i disagree with getting expert opinion, but this just screams “offloading decision making” and intentional ambiguity on policy.
So the question is will SF become FF lite or FG lite after the next election? 🤔
Pretty weak stuff but it’s not a total climbdown at least.
That’s the trick to get into politics.
I think nickson coined it (or made it popular). Pick a side for policies (right or left) nice and far, gain momentum, and if you can time it right before the vote, pivot hard back into the centre.
The aim is to get enough votership both sides.
My issue, SF are popular by default because FGFF couldn’t be any more incompetent. By changing up policies now in attempt to please more they aleinate there for core.
Try to please everyone, you’ll please no one.
Sinn Fein are just like the other large parties now they are one. Remove anything that’ll scare the suburbs.
As a SF supporter – Bold fucking move to be making changes that’ll rattle a massive part of their base. They realistically have one term to get some footing by showing positive changes.
I already thought they were gobshites for wanting to scrap the HTB because “30% of people who got it didn’t need it” as if that doesn’t mean 70% of people did need it. Removing it isn’t going to lower house prices either, so it’ll just harm their supporters directly.
Bottlers.
Nearly every single country in Europe that has tried a wealth tax has ended up ditching it after seeing that they don’t work in practice. Credit to SF for actually listening to that evidence.
They are looking to incorporate a wealth tax but abolish property taxes? Make it make sense.
>Housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin outlined plans for a public housing programme delivering 21,000 social and affordable homes at a cost of €1.44 billion and one month’s rent rebate and a three-year rent freeze.
They’re going to build 21,000 houses for €68K each?
Are they going to be sheds?
Zero policies to increase housing supply. Why aren’t they following the Vienna model? There’s fucking nothing being suggested here that’s radical and we NEED a radical approach to our housing supply, not just leaving it to developers.
This was one of the core policies for them getting any support from me.
They will be a slightly more left version of FF at best
They’re all the same. I thought with voting SF we could at last try change the corruption but nothing will ever change.
Haha, all the clowns denying they’re just a new FF will be in furious denial.