Posted on 02/14/2016 4:44:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
Sinn Fein have surged by 3 points to 20 percent in the second week of the Irish election set for February 26th, according to the highly trusted Red C poll for the Sunday Business Post.
Sinn Fein gains came despite a major media and political barrage aimed at the party after a bloody spate of Dublin gangland killings and Sinn Fein's position on ending the Special Criminal Court, which operates without juries and that tries gangland suspects.
The Sinn Fein surge seems to have been at the expense of the current government partners, Fine Gael and Labour, who have dropped to 28 percent (down 3) for Fine Gael and 8 percent (down 2) for Labour. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
3% is not a surge. 3% is likely within Margin of Error
My ancestral homeland started circling the bottom of the toilet the day they joined the EU...and that plunge quickened the day they joined the Euro.
I had to read the article, because I had nothing better to do, and don’t know a thing about Irish politics. It was an interesting read, but what was more interesting was the comments. Even the Irish blame Obama (and apparently all of America) for what is happening all around Europe.
What I find interesting about that is, if you watch the news like I do on occasion, you would be under the impression (as I have been for 7 years), that Europeans LOVE Obama to death, and it was Bush the cowboy they hated. Obama was bringing peace and love and harmony to the world.
Didn’t the Europeans all write paper after paper extolling his virtues not too long ago?
There seems to be a disconnect between what the Irish people are saying in their comments, and what the news narrative is.
I wonder if the Europeans actually do support my candidate Trump, while the news coming from Europe hints that he is the most hated man in the world.
The internet is an amazing thing, and I don’t think politics will ever be the same after this decade, unless the powers that be somehow figure out a way to stifle internet speech.
In Ireland - our left wing democrats would be considered right wing
It seems that most of the European countries support leftist parties, sometimes there are several leftist parties to chose from.
Trust me, they have been working hard on it.
Always remember:
3rd parties = Socialism
Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA will soon take over. They are down with the "palestinian" cause. They are bad news.
The war will be back on soon enough and London has no stomach for it.
Trump has support in Europe but I’m not so sure it would be a welcomed thing to report on it, their “right” is somewhat different from ours, and not necessarily in a good way.
What should be shocking the Irish is the EU’s allowance of the Muslim flooding of Western Europe!
What, the “pro-Palestinian” Irish?
Ireland really sucks, the 2 largest parties (FG and FF, though the long dominant FF fell to third place last election) are both squishy center to center right parties with little ideological differences in recent years that hate each other because they were on opposite sides of the Irish civil war so they would rather seek Labour or the Greens as coaltion partners than each other.
There is no real conservative force, only the weak right wings of the 2 aforementioned parties. No one stood against gay marriage. No one stands against the EU.
This upcoming election may force them into a coalition, Labour has tanked as jr coalition partners across Europe are want to do, the Sinn Fein commie terrorists are gonna win enough seats to necessitate it.
Ireland went full Massachusetts. You never go full Massachusetts.
Irish election went as expected, FG/FF coalition only viable government, it’s either that or another election. Small conservative party Renua Ireland founded by a lady kicked out of FG for being too pro-life is expected to get zero seats.
FG and FF and like Republicans (RINOS) and Dixiecrats, only unlike the former coming together they still haven’t, even though civil war they fought is ancient history and no longer relevant.
Jamacia had an election too. The Jamaican Labour party narrowly beat the incumbent People’s National Party in an upset. If you thought by the party names that this is a bad result, guess again. The Labour Party, despite it’s name, is conservative and won on a platform of tax cuts.
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