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Non GAA Discussion => General discussion => Topic started by: Zazz on July 21, 2020, 10:52:06 PM

Poll
Question: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Option 1: votes: 8
Option 2: Níl votes: 18
Title: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: Zazz on July 21, 2020, 10:52:06 PM
Asking for some friends
Title: Re: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: Rossfan on July 22, 2020, 12:13:32 AM
Define who "Irish" voters are.
Title: Re: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: seafoid on July 22, 2020, 07:12:16 AM
The Shinner focus on parties is laughable. The Government machine with the full.support of FG held the line on NI in Brussels from before the Brexit vote. Countless hours of lobbying went into forming the EU position which was by no means certain at the outset.

One vignette was Helen McEntee reassured Armagh fans during a league match in Navan that tgere was going to be no hard border. The people in the North were abandoned in 1921 and this is remembered. But there will not be a repeat.

NI will probably collapse. If there is a UI it will be because of this and the work of all the parties including the Blueshirts.
Title: Re: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: Baile Brigín 2 on July 22, 2020, 12:48:16 PM
FG aren't pro partition per say.

They are just right wing conservatives and most threats to that status quo have come from Republicans
Title: Re: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: five points on July 22, 2020, 01:00:04 PM
Modern FG is neither right wing nor conservative. Big state tax 'n spend social liberals.
Title: Re: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: Rossfan on July 22, 2020, 01:28:43 PM
Bejasus we have one right winger here anyway.
Title: Re: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: seafoid on July 22, 2020, 01:56:53 PM
The weaker Norn Irn gets and the more chaotic Brexit becomes the more influence the Irish Gov will have in the North.
Title: Re: Are you not really Irish if you vote for FG?
Post by: Farrandeelin on July 22, 2020, 09:02:35 PM
I've never voted FG, but to suggest that you're 'less Irish' if you do is just plain silly.