Hilarious how Una has (somewhat) distanced herself from SF over the last year when she seemed to be auditioning as a press officer for them before that.
Everything is great… If you own 2 houses.
Maybe if you’re looking at it from your 150sqm 4 bed house in Dalkey ~ we will never knows what folks over there smoking 😂
You need to squint and tilt your head and look at it from the other side of the planet,then he may have a point
She’s not necessarily wrong, but FG are doing well in the polls. Also, I very much doubt there’s anything that Simon Harris could say or do that would make Una Mullally write a positive article about him or FG
Wait until the double payments from social welfare start coming in.
Kind of hard to swallow if you don’t know where you’ll be putting your head down tonight alright.
The cope off that article. Mullally : “Am I so out of touch? No it’s the electorate who are wrong.
Una Mullally would and has never said anything good about FG or FF. So this article is not a shock.
Great? No. Ok? Mabey. Better then most other countries on the planet? Absolutely.
Everything is great… which is why so many 20-40 year olds are still living with their parents? Fucking politicians 🤦♂️
For a lot of the country, everything is fine, their wealth is being protected. The pension age wasn’t increased, they can continue to object to everything new including housing in their local area, their house will continue to increase in value, and a sizeable proportion of them have more than one. In addition to this they will collect hefty free money one-offs, double payments despite being the least likely group to be in poverty.
The ladder pullers love FG, and FG loves them.
“There are vast swathes of Irish voters who express no affiliation to any political party.”
Because there is a political vaccuum. There is a huge amount of people, like me, who want a party that acknowledges the crises in housing, immigration and crime and have concrete plans to fix each. But the only politicians out there willing to go hard after all those issues are nutter indepedents who bring with them the stench of mysogny or homophobia or importing various bullshit US culture wars, all of which are rightfully unacceptable to the electorate.
Incredibly, it seems like FG might actually be the party closest to acknowledging the above. From what I have seen, the others would only make each of the issues worse. But you can’t trust FG to fix the problems as they themselves created them. There’s literally nowhere to go.
What’s getting me lately is the sheer lack of any disposable income.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very thankful to be better off than many in my age bracket, I’m single but own my own home and that’s great, but more and more now I’m getting to the end of the month and finding I genuinely have nothing left.
Now, I put a set amount in to savings accounts and a couple special accounts for things like paying off car insurance every year, but I don’t DO anything that should be this expensive. I don’t go out drinking or go to the movies or anything and yet, I’m genuinely considering getting rid of the TV provider in the new year because I just can’t afford them anymore. That would probably be my only “frivolous” expense.
It really worries me that someone like myself with no dependents and a supposedly good income feels like I’m only ever a couple unexpected bills away from being genuinely quite worried.
Well we won’t know until they get the finger out and call the bloody election, will we?
I was told I’d begin to understand ffgg after I bought property which I was thankful to be able to do this year. Frankly, it was so hard and expensive I can never vote for them. I cannot justify pulling up the ladder so will continue to vote for a socialist agenda. Yeah I’ll pay more tax but I’d prefer to pay tax to improve our nation rather than still pay but have it spent by crooks on their pals.
They won’t buy it, but you’ll all vote them and/or FG back into government just like the last century.
As a nation in the past a tradesman could afford, a wife stay at home, one car (a banger yes) and the wife would save the spare cash. Then the wife needed to work and there was less savings. After that there was no savings and now we have accumulation of debt. The same to parties that have led government are telling us not to trust the opposition case they’ll screw it up.can it get screwed up more? If the current government brought in laws against vulture funds buying houses and Air B and B rampant letting I would have voted for them. Voting SD’s.
Not a shortage of minted people in this country. If you have horses in your back yards FG is a good option still.
If you have a house and a job Ireland is a pretty great place to live.
80% of people over 40 own their home in Ireland.
Probably breaking the cardinal rule of thus sub and going against the strong Irish tradition of being a moan arse but I disagree a lot of the country is doing alright.
I’ll never be an FFFG supporter but looking around me there’s new builds and people buying housing, if Harris can convince people his childcare plan is genuine a decent chunk of the young working parents vote could well be convinced, add to that the FFFG core and they’ll do fine.
Not that I want that to happen I’d love to see both lose seats but the boom is back for many, the people suffering mostly are less likely to vote or represent the roughly 3rd of the electorate covered by sf/pbp/soc dems/left independents. They obviously won’t be convinced by Harris but he’s not trying to convince them he’s trying to win back the young professionals who drifted to sf and others in 2020
“Sure be grand”- FF/FG
Fix housing and we’d be 80% there
Which is as well, because it isn’t.
No fan of ffg or any party for that matter , but I can’t stand una mullally. I almost think she’s there as the sole lefty pundit at the IT to be as annoying as possible to drive people towards the centre /right
I am in my late 40s, mortgage and kids and high paying job (but not insanely high). I’m his target audience.
I think they’ve made a balls of property. They pander to the special interests – developers, financiers and corporate landlords. I don’t give a shit if my home’s value goes down, it should go down; their objective should be to dramatically devalue housing and land prices.
Having said that, who else can I vote for? Who is a serious political party that can maintain our competitiveness and not waste time on populism? At the moment Michael Martin looks far and away the best option for Taoiseach and I say this as someone who was in a rage with FF for about 3 years after the crash in 2009.
Things are actually pretty good for most people in ireland
I know two people with families who work full time living in emergency accommodation. Everything is not fine. The country is fucked for a lot of people.
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Hilarious how Una has (somewhat) distanced herself from SF over the last year when she seemed to be auditioning as a press officer for them before that.
Everything is great… If you own 2 houses.
Maybe if you’re looking at it from your 150sqm 4 bed house in Dalkey ~ we will never knows what folks over there smoking 😂
You need to squint and tilt your head and look at it from the other side of the planet,then he may have a point
She’s not necessarily wrong, but FG are doing well in the polls. Also, I very much doubt there’s anything that Simon Harris could say or do that would make Una Mullally write a positive article about him or FG
Wait until the double payments from social welfare start coming in.
Kind of hard to swallow if you don’t know where you’ll be putting your head down tonight alright.
The cope off that article. Mullally : “Am I so out of touch? No it’s the electorate who are wrong.
Una Mullally would and has never said anything good about FG or FF. So this article is not a shock.
Great? No. Ok? Mabey. Better then most other countries on the planet? Absolutely.
Everything is great… which is why so many 20-40 year olds are still living with their parents? Fucking politicians 🤦♂️
For a lot of the country, everything is fine, their wealth is being protected. The pension age wasn’t increased, they can continue to object to everything new including housing in their local area, their house will continue to increase in value, and a sizeable proportion of them have more than one. In addition to this they will collect hefty free money one-offs, double payments despite being the least likely group to be in poverty.
The ladder pullers love FG, and FG loves them.
“There are vast swathes of Irish voters who express no affiliation to any political party.”
Because there is a political vaccuum. There is a huge amount of people, like me, who want a party that acknowledges the crises in housing, immigration and crime and have concrete plans to fix each. But the only politicians out there willing to go hard after all those issues are nutter indepedents who bring with them the stench of mysogny or homophobia or importing various bullshit US culture wars, all of which are rightfully unacceptable to the electorate.
Incredibly, it seems like FG might actually be the party closest to acknowledging the above. From what I have seen, the others would only make each of the issues worse. But you can’t trust FG to fix the problems as they themselves created them. There’s literally nowhere to go.
What’s getting me lately is the sheer lack of any disposable income.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very thankful to be better off than many in my age bracket, I’m single but own my own home and that’s great, but more and more now I’m getting to the end of the month and finding I genuinely have nothing left.
Now, I put a set amount in to savings accounts and a couple special accounts for things like paying off car insurance every year, but I don’t DO anything that should be this expensive. I don’t go out drinking or go to the movies or anything and yet, I’m genuinely considering getting rid of the TV provider in the new year because I just can’t afford them anymore. That would probably be my only “frivolous” expense.
It really worries me that someone like myself with no dependents and a supposedly good income feels like I’m only ever a couple unexpected bills away from being genuinely quite worried.
Well we won’t know until they get the finger out and call the bloody election, will we?
I was told I’d begin to understand ffgg after I bought property which I was thankful to be able to do this year. Frankly, it was so hard and expensive I can never vote for them. I cannot justify pulling up the ladder so will continue to vote for a socialist agenda. Yeah I’ll pay more tax but I’d prefer to pay tax to improve our nation rather than still pay but have it spent by crooks on their pals.
They won’t buy it, but you’ll all vote them and/or FG back into government just like the last century.
As a nation in the past a tradesman could afford, a wife stay at home, one car (a banger yes) and the wife would save the spare cash. Then the wife needed to work and there was less savings. After that there was no savings and now we have accumulation of debt.
The same to parties that have led government are telling us not to trust the opposition case they’ll screw it up.can it get screwed up more?
If the current government brought in laws against vulture funds buying houses and Air B and B rampant letting I would have voted for them. Voting SD’s.
Not a shortage of minted people in this country. If you have horses in your back yards FG is a good option still.
If you have a house and a job Ireland is a pretty great place to live.
80% of people over 40 own their home in Ireland.
Probably breaking the cardinal rule of thus sub and going against the strong Irish tradition of being a moan arse but I disagree a lot of the country is doing alright.
I’ll never be an FFFG supporter but looking around me there’s new builds and people buying housing, if Harris can convince people his childcare plan is genuine a decent chunk of the young working parents vote could well be convinced, add to that the FFFG core and they’ll do fine.
Not that I want that to happen I’d love to see both lose seats but the boom is back for many, the people suffering mostly are less likely to vote or represent the roughly 3rd of the electorate covered by sf/pbp/soc dems/left independents. They obviously won’t be convinced by Harris but he’s not trying to convince them he’s trying to win back the young professionals who drifted to sf and others in 2020
“Sure be grand”- FF/FG
Fix housing and we’d be 80% there
Which is as well, because it isn’t.
No fan of ffg or any party for that matter , but I can’t stand una mullally. I almost think she’s there as the sole lefty pundit at the IT to be as annoying as possible to drive people towards the centre /right
I am in my late 40s, mortgage and kids and high paying job (but not insanely high). I’m his target audience.
I think they’ve made a balls of property. They pander to the special interests – developers, financiers and corporate landlords. I don’t give a shit if my home’s value goes down, it should go down; their objective should be to dramatically devalue housing and land prices.
Having said that, who else can I vote for? Who is a serious political party that can maintain our competitiveness and not waste time on populism? At the moment Michael Martin looks far and away the best option for Taoiseach and I say this as someone who was in a rage with FF for about 3 years after the crash in 2009.
Things are actually pretty good for most people in ireland
I know two people with families who work full time living in emergency accommodation. Everything is not fine. The country is fucked for a lot of people.
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