[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Cherie

It more to do with their policies and younger voters who do not associate Sinn Fein with the IRA anymore

I mean it's to do with wanting someone completely different in there, lets be honest here, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael may as well be the same party and they certainly know how to look after themselves and their cronies. Sinn Fein just offer something completely different ad people are curious to see how they would do. We've never ever had anyone other than Fianna fail or Fine Gael run the country, I'd like to see them have a shot at it. It's almost impossible for that to happen though because they don't have enough people running and the bigger parties won't get into bed with them

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I mean it's to do with wanting someone completely different in there, lets be honest here, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael may as well be the same party and they certainly know how to look after themselves and their cronies. Sinn Fein just offer something completely different ad people are curious to see how they would do. We've never ever had anyone other than Fianna fail or Fine Gael run the country, I'd like to see them have a shot at it. It's almost impossible for that to happen though because they don't have enough people running and the bigger parties won't get into bed with them

Do you mean like New Labour & Conservative
were like the same

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by arista

Do you mean like New Labour & Conservative
were like the same

I wouldn't really know how similar those were tbh Arista as I didn't live under their governments but the impression I get from an outsider looking in on your news, forums etc is that Labour is left leaning and Conservatives are more right? Where as I'd consider both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael to be quite Centre(maybe a little right leaning compared to other parties in Ireland) with very little difference in their policies and goals

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I mean it's to do with wanting someone completely different in there, lets be honest here, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael may as well be the same party and they certainly know how to look after themselves and their cronies. Sinn Fein just offer something completely different ad people are curious to see how they would do. We've never ever had anyone other than Fianna fail or Fine Gael run the country, I'd like to see them have a shot at it. It's almost impossible for that to happen though because they don't have enough people running and the bigger parties won't get into bed with them

I think politics is changing so much and people are sick of the same old thing going on in cycles. This is a shame, if the people vote in numbers for this they should be given a shot

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I think politics is changing so much and people are sick of the same old thing going on in cycles. This is a shame, if the people vote in numbers for this they should be given a shot

Yeah I know, I think they have 42 candidates running and you'd need around 80 to have a majority so It's almost guaranteed to be Fianna fail or Fine Gael

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I mean it's to do with wanting someone completely different in there, lets be honest here, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael may as well be the same party and they certainly know how to look after themselves and their cronies. Sinn Fein just offer something completely different ad people are curious to see how they would do. We've never ever had anyone other than Fianna fail or Fine Gael run the country, I'd like to see them have a shot at it. It's almost impossible for that to happen though because they don't have enough people running and the bigger parties won't get into bed with them

Tbh what you're describing here sounds like the UK politics.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Tbh what you're describing here sounds like the UK politics.

With Labour and the Conservatives running the country you mean? You've still not had a third party come through and really upset that status quo though, have you?

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

With Labour and the Conservatives running the country you mean? You've still not had a third party come through and really upset that status quo though, have you?

Yeah, we have a voting system in place that makes it pretty much impossible to break them up.

Sinn Fein did really well though Niamh, going back to the ROI Election.