Yeah he’s not gonna budge on this till he has to. It will be next year
Static-Jak on
Seemed to be reliant on how well the budget was recieved.
From anyone I’ve talked to the impression is it was a bit of a handout budget but with nothing that would help them in the long term. More short term relief, maybe some extra cash in the back pocket for Christmas.
Nothing really negative about it, just nothing to write home about. Keeping to the status quo, for good or bad.
ImpovingTaylorist on
Savage amount of posters going up.
SeanB2003 on
Politicians don’t say that they are going to call an election until they actually call the election. It would be incredibly stupid from their perspective, the biggest power a Taoiseach has is their ability to call an election at a time (mostly) of their choosing, Harris isn’t about to throw that away because a journalist asks him a question.
DBrennan13459 on
Jesus, Simon, just call the election or don’t. I’m just sick to death of this posturing bullshit.
pippers87 on
He might be best going now. As war in the middle east won’t be long putting the aul petroleum and diesel back over 2 quid a litre. If you are dependent on Kerosene I’d fill as much as possible now. If it’s a cold winter (we are due one) and high energy prices so any positives won’t last long.
Mundane-Inevitable-5 on
Any plans to be doing the same thing in the North inner city or will their canvassing reflect their Governance and just completely neglect it?
High_Flyer87 on
I’d hazard a guess it’ll be called by end of next week.
hatrickpatrick on
What exactly is their thinking in delaying it until the end of the term? I despise this government probably more than most, but from a strategic point of view, SF seem to have totally thrown away the advantage they had, and FG has recovered somewhat – feels like any delay now is just giving the opposition time for something to go wrong and hammer FG again?
From an unbiased, purely PolSci perspective, what possible advantage is there in waiting?
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Early next year, so.
Yeah he’s not gonna budge on this till he has to. It will be next year
Seemed to be reliant on how well the budget was recieved.
From anyone I’ve talked to the impression is it was a bit of a handout budget but with nothing that would help them in the long term. More short term relief, maybe some extra cash in the back pocket for Christmas.
Nothing really negative about it, just nothing to write home about. Keeping to the status quo, for good or bad.
Savage amount of posters going up.
Politicians don’t say that they are going to call an election until they actually call the election. It would be incredibly stupid from their perspective, the biggest power a Taoiseach has is their ability to call an election at a time (mostly) of their choosing, Harris isn’t about to throw that away because a journalist asks him a question.
Jesus, Simon, just call the election or don’t. I’m just sick to death of this posturing bullshit.
He might be best going now. As war in the middle east won’t be long putting the aul petroleum and diesel back over 2 quid a litre. If you are dependent on Kerosene I’d fill as much as possible now. If it’s a cold winter (we are due one) and high energy prices so any positives won’t last long.
Any plans to be doing the same thing in the North inner city or will their canvassing reflect their Governance and just completely neglect it?
I’d hazard a guess it’ll be called by end of next week.
What exactly is their thinking in delaying it until the end of the term? I despise this government probably more than most, but from a strategic point of view, SF seem to have totally thrown away the advantage they had, and FG has recovered somewhat – feels like any delay now is just giving the opposition time for something to go wrong and hammer FG again?
From an unbiased, purely PolSci perspective, what possible advantage is there in waiting?
https://preview.redd.it/bim1vzsftcsd1.png?width=636&format=png&auto=webp&s=52f06cbad90775d20af7c639acb1c2feb27259f0
Plays down election talk….while canvassing?
Just fucking call it Simon.