The SDLP

[Rossfan]

Sure didn't SF and the SDLP take their seats in the partitionist Stormont, and took up Executive positions in the partitionist Statelet, and negitiated and signed up to the Good Friday Agreement which continued/copper fastened Partition?

[Armagh18]

Sure didn't SF and the SDLP take their seats in the partitionist Stormont, and took up Executive positions in the partitionist Statelet, and negitiated and signed up to the Good Friday Agreement which continued/copper fastened Partition?

Should have kept shooting (West)Brits instead, I know!

[trailer]

SDLP vote for a six county stone at Stormont celebrating partition. WTF

Martin McGuinness spent years trying to remove the Brits from Ireland. Ended up as DFM administering British law.

[Orior]

SDLP vote for a six county stone at Stormont celebrating partition. WTF

Celebrate? I suspect that's your interpretation.

[Snapchap]

Sure didn't SF and the SDLP take their seats in the partitionist Stormont, and took up Executive positions in the partitionist Statelet, and negitiated and signed up to the Good Friday Agreement which continued/copper fastened Partition?

Sounds like someone hasn't read the GFA.

[keep her low this half]

The SDLP vote has dropped so badly they are now no longer eligible to be part of the government in Stormont ( if it ever gets going again ). In the most recent Lucid talk poll they are on the same level of vote as the TUV ( around 8% ). They are facing into a council election in May which could be very painful although individual councillors may well have a higher personal vote than the party itself.
The SDLP has to come up with a reason to exist, saying we are not Sinn Fein is not a reason. They need some big ideas and policies to differentiate themselves. They are slowly but surely circling the plughole of electoral oblivion, too many big egos with little talent. If they were wise they would push the socialist agenda more as they are never going to out nationalist Sinn Fein.
If they don't do something radical very soon they will be the equivalent of the workers party in 5 to 10 years with 3% of the vote all from pensioners who remember the troubles.

[imtommygunn]

They need a new leader -  Eastwood isn't good.

[seafoid]

The SDLP are like Meath.
SF are like Dublin
It won't last forever

[Snapchap]

The SDLP are like Meath.
SF are like Dublin
It won't last forever

When you say "it won't last forever", is that a prediction that the SDLP will be top dog again some day?

[seafoid]

The SDLP are like Meath.
SF are like Dublin
It won't last forever

When you say "it won't last forever", is that a prediction that the SDLP will be top dog again some day?

absolutely.
FF were top dog from 1930 to 2009 . That's longer than SF
And then the wolf arrived. It happens to every party.

[johnnycool]

They need a new leader -  Eastwood isn't good.

Where's he been the last while?

You'd see Claire Hanna and Matthew O'Toole about on the news but not Colin.

[imtommygunn]

Who's Colin lol.

Just get Hanna or O'Toole as leaders and be done with it.

[Eire90]

Their radical views on covid might be one of the reasons they lost lots of support.

[Snapchap]

The SDLP are like Meath.
SF are like Dublin
It won't last forever

When you say "it won't last forever", is that a prediction that the SDLP will be top dog again some day?

absolutely.
FF were top dog from 1930 to 2009 . That's longer than SF
And then the wolf arrived. It happens to every party.

And not every party in the SDLPs position returns to a position of strength. Think the PDs. Think the Women's Coalition. Sometimes a party just has no raison d'être and dies a slow death.

[Snapchap]

Who's Colin lol.

Just get Hanna or O'Toole as leaders and be done with it.

Hanna. The woman who was in a party with an 'electoral relationship' with Fianna Fáil, but who regularly attended Irish Labour party conferences, and was out canvassing for Fine Gael at one of the last elections. I don't think she's the answer to the SDLPs problems, somehow. O'Toole is probably their most effective communicator but to my mind the SDLP is beyond the point of rescue. Changing leader is just re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.