Poll: Irish general election edition

[DCI Harry Batt]

I've lost track.

Solidarity is the newer name for the SP's "Anti-Austerity Alliance"? The SP in Ireland is no longer associated with the SP in England & Wales? PBP is the SWM (still associated with the British SWP) equivalent of the AAA? The SWM doesn't do anything in its own name any more but only as part of PBP?

Murphy was SP? He left when the SP split internationally BUT he went off to do his own thing instead of being part of what is now "Militant Left" (which is associated with the SP in England & Wales)?

Have I got all that right?

[Diable Rouge]

Yes, Solidarity is the new name for the Socialist Party, which then became the United Left Alliance, and then the Anti-Austerity Alliance, while PBP were the SWP, and briefly part of both the ULA and AAA, and Eamonn McCann's NI section was formerly called SEA.

Paul Murphy's political history:

2011-10: Socialist Party
2010-13: United Left Alliance
2013-19: Anti-Austerity Alliance
2019-21: RISE
2021- PBP

[Diable Rouge]

This should be good - John McGuirk is going to discuss the rise of the far right on Prime Time tonight (for our British friends, think a poor man's Brendan O'Neill).

[elguapo4]

Yeah, that's the RTE way, give them the oxygen of publicity they don't deserve because of their numbers.

[anton pulisov]

Right up there with handing out jobs to people who don't deserve them based on their CV.

[Diable Rouge]

The Green Party TD Patrick Costello is taking a High Court case concerning the constitutionality of CETA, particularly the Investor Court System provision:

https://twitter.com/aoifegracemoore/status/1367058933471404033

In truth, it's hard to see why it would trigger a referendum when say, the International Criminal Court did not, but the case precedent will be intriguing.

[Lang Spoon]

He hasn't a chance in hell of succeeding.

[Diable Rouge]

Michael McDowell wants a PDs Nua, it would appear, even with Renua as a salutary lesson in that regard:

https://twitter.com/electionlit/status/1367537045292396551

[Duncan Gardner]

Renua Renata, popular 80s chart toppers

[Lang Spoon]

He's such an evil old cunt.

[Diable Rouge]

https://twitter.com/aoifegracemoore/status/1369657946884411395

No blackboard has yet been spotted in the Varadkar office.

[Lang Spoon]

Hopefully that smug pound shop Machiavelli cunt will never be Taoiseach again.

[Diable Rouge]

Hopefully that smug pound shop Machiavelli cunt will never be Taoiseach again.

Even less probable now:

https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1370860252724408324

[Lang Spoon]

Please god. The snakey fuck is prob too slimy to be fatally damaged, but we can but hope.

[elguapo4]

True, he's cut from the same cloth as Haughey and Ahern, so the smug fucker will weasel his way out of things.

[Diable Rouge]

The Taoiseach's would-be heir evidently hasn't heard of VPNs:

https://twitter.com/OCallaghanJim/status/1371065537351008261

[Diable Rouge]

Greens down to 2% in the latest poll:

https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1373437313305427968

[DCI Harry Batt]

Good.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Is there an expectation that Labour and SDs will continue as separate parties for ever? Are they different?

[elguapo4]

Not really that different, but the Labour Party will see themselves as the senior partners and will expect the recalcitrant rebels to come crawling back, and that's not going to happen.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Sure. Maybe if SDs take a couple more seats of theirs or something.

[Diable Rouge]

Not really that different, but the Labour Party will see themselves as the senior partners and will expect the recalcitrant rebels to come crawling back, and that's not going to happen.

That, and a few of the Soc Dem TDs (Cairns, Gannon, Whitmore) were never members of Labour in the first place, so they and much of the grassroots see it as a permanent project - if they ever got into double figures TD-wise, that's when the inevitable compromises and pressure to enter government would begin.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The Soc Dems are the wing of the labour party that doesn't want to be in government. They'll say a few nice things, but ultimately are completely fucking useless.

Cian O'Callaghan would probably be in the aaa-PBP if it wasn't for all their red hot #metoo action.

[Lang Spoon]

I don't know how you can put any faith in a party led by Alan Kelly tbh, he's as amoral and nasty and ultimately useless as Varadkar. Also you're probably the youngest Labour supporter left, they are fucked.

[Lang Spoon]

Is that an allusion to RBB and his close personal friends there?