The Fine Gael thread

[seafoid]

Retiring at end of this Dáil or waiting till the Harris leadership runs aground?

Will Harris be the Liz Truss of FG?
Retiring, I'd say, he will get interesting opportunities.

FG have a big loss of experience, it is hard to see that the "new" crowd are more able than Varadkar and Coveney, who did a cracking job on Brexit.

I was thinking the same thing. Harris is an empty vessel.

[marty34]

Just what FG didn't need in the mouth of elections.

Get yourself a nice wee extension/renovation.

Gangsters.

https://www.rte.ie/news/elections-2024/2024/0528/1451689-marian-agrios/

[Itchy]

https://x.com/wereontheditch/status/1795435538125873611?t=G4-exzkdvOFGJT8qF5y7aA&s=19

She seems lovely

[marty34]

https://x.com/wereontheditch/status/1795435538125873611?t=G4-exzkdvOFGJT8qF5y7aA&s=19

She seems lovely

Gangster of the highest degree.

Nice wee earner there.

FG European candidate livid with her I'd say. Do his chances a bit of harm you'd think and him knocking on the doors in Louth. 

[Rossfan]

Budget being brought forward a week.
Obviously GE in November.

[armaghniac]

Budget being brought forward a week.
Obviously GE in November.

The tax revenue was up 9% in the first half of the year, when inflation is 2.6%. So you can give a bit out and still have a surplus.

[armaghniac]

Indo Poll
Fine Gael 24   🔺2
Fianna Fáil 20 🔺3
Sinn Féin 18    🔻4

Definite election in the Autumn, I would have thought.

[Rossfan]

One more good year coming .....

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0709/1458893-summer-economic-statement/

[Rossfan]

Leo stepping down at end of this Dáil to "pursue opportunities and options outside Politics"

[From the Bunker]

Leo stepping down at end of this Dáil to "pursue opportunities and options outside Politics"

No surprise there. He'll get a Job with the WEF and collect his multiple pensions for 40 years.

He'll be wearing his WEF pendant more often.

[Itchy]

And the FG MEP wankers supporting Ursula von der leyden, the woman who sides with war criminals in Israel. Even the FFers have some decency. Says it all about our former GAA president.

[shark]

Leo stepping down at end of this Dáil to "pursue opportunities and options outside Politics"

No surprise there. He'll get a Job with the WEF and collect his multiple pensions for 40 years.

He'll be wearing his WEF pendant more often.

He doesn't get his pension until he's 65. Rules were changed some time ago. Unless you meant that he was going to live to 105.

[Dunneroyal]

Leo stepping down at end of this Dáil to "pursue opportunities and options outside Politics"

No surprise there. He'll get a Job with the WEF and collect his multiple pensions for 40 years.

He'll be wearing his WEF pendant more often.

He doesn't get his pension until he's 65. Rules were changed some time ago. Unless you meant that he was going to live to 105.

sometimes people post without the slightest idea of what they post is fact or fiction. They read something on x and think it's fact. I am worried about what our country is turning into.
On leo himself I wish him well and every success, I do believe coveney would have been a better taoiseach but hindsight is 2020 etc.

[Snapchap]

Been a typically dispicible few days of voting from former GAA President Sean Kelly. On Wednesday he voted against a proposal to have a debate on the ongoing Gaza genocide, and on Thursday he voted in support of Ursula Von Dee Leyen for another term as EU President.

Where, I wonder, would those votes rank for moral bankruptcy against his previous vote for allowing migrants to drown in the Med?

[weareros]

Leaving aside for a moment EU and majority of Western World's shameful role in Gaza genocide, it would still be hard for Irish gov to turn their back on von der Leyen. Many don't realise how screwed Ireland would be if UK got their way on Brexit. If people like VDL did not force north into EU single market by refusing to give UK the trade deal they wanted, then north would have been in a different regulatory alignment to rest of Ireland. That would have forced Dublin to have a hard trade border with practically checks on all kinds of products crossing the border. UK didn't need to enforce the border because they could not have given two shites what entered the EU single market via Ireland. That would not hurt UK, only Irish economy. But if 26 were allowing milk, agricultural products in from North that was now in a Brexit regulatory environment, it would have tainted Irish exports to EU and hit the economy hard. Unfortunately this vote was payback time. Her rival was Danish right-winger Anders Vistisen who wanted EU to go easy on the UK during the Brexit negotiations and came out with ridiculous comments that Ireland would leave EU if UK was punished.