Anticipation
The coming election is going to be slightly more interesting than usual.
I say slightly because elections in general are pretty tedious affairs.
What makes this one mildly interesting is the general unrest in the population. There is a widespread attitude that we are sick of the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael pair who have dominated the scene for the last hundred years. There is nothing to distinguish one from the other, which they confirmed after the last election when they formed a coalition.
This time around Sinn Féin have risen to the challenge. They are now tying with the other two in the opinion polls with independent candidates up there too. I would imagine that the bookies are quite nervous at this point.
Fine Gael were in the lead but then Child Harris went and blew it in spectacular fashion. He was rude to a woman while canvassing. But the woman was a Carer [a subject supposedly close to Child Harris’s heart]. And to compound the situation the the fucking idiot did it in front of television cameras which were recording at the time.
Naturally the video went “viral” and Fine Gael dropped four points in the polls.
For a beautiful commentary on the situation I would highly recommend The Gist who sums up the Fine Gael mob with the precision of a surgeon’s knife.
Herself also summed them up….
A shower of cunts!
Rather reminds me of Gorgon Browns notorious faux-pas “That bigoted woman”
There’s a definite trend in voters becoming pissed off with their traditional parties in many countries, causing new ones finally to get a chance to win some votes/seats, if not power. It’s certainly rattling the old parties, not before time as they seem too comfortable just taking turns while delivering little.
In the UK, the Reform Party, spawned by Brexit, is making waves and gains, the old established ones are struggling to produce answers which the electorate will accept. Because Reform seems to be saying the things that folk are quietly thinking (because saying it in polite company isn’t politically correct), they’re gathering votes, often from folk who wouldn’t admit to voting Reform. Bit like all the silent Trump voters in the USA. Bring it on.
Certainly a common international news item these days seems to be along the lines of “Shock as far right candidate tops the polls”. It’s no harm whatsoever to rattle the cages of the current establishment.
The Workers’ Party and the Bosses’ Party. See the last sentence in Animal Farm.
And to wind up the far, hard left do not use word Nazi. They were National Socialists. Stalin’s bestest buddies right up until they did what people like them always do.
By the way ‘n’ that, on this side of the North Channel, the petition for a re-run of our last General Election is going well. Well over 2 million now. No doubt they are all Surkeir supporters determined to get more than one third of the vote they triumphed with in the last Election. Such larks.