Irish Politics Thread

I can't for the life of me figure figure why there is any issue or backlash with SF holding public meetings? What issue could anyone possibly have with a political party engaging with the public?

the_walls wrote: I can't for the life of me figure figure why there is any issue or backlash with SF holding public meetings? What issue could anyone possibly have with a political party engaging with the public?

Just a thought: I imagine that the sucess of SF may, in part, be down to the obliteration of the power of the catholic church.Ireland needed a strong left leaning party since the foundation of the State, to correct the very clear social injustices.The c. church would, in days gone, have used fear on  a cowed people, to make sure that their FF/FG lackeys were kept in power and that godless Lefties were kept down.The priests are metaphorically f**ked, people can't be cowed by them into not wanting a fair society.The church  power has been gone years now, but their former lackeys created the perfect situation for people to look Left.No church to stop  them now

When you say "they ain't left" are you paraphrasing the Supreme Leader, " they haven't gone away"?

OooOooh!   Tetchy!    You're sounding like a man who is nervous

pre Madonna wrote: Het-field wrote: Sinn Fein are a populist party. They ain’t left. Correct. One of my biggest concerns about them is their failure over the years to properly condemn the church. There may be an element of truth in the earlier post, but SF have always been afraid of being too critical of the one true church.

Stickittotheman wrote: Het-field wrote: They are not a left party. And your thought isn’t original or unchartered. I would disagree. They would probably be centre left now. A centre left party with aspects of populist policies. If any party is a broad church, populist party it is Fianna Fail.

Edited by Het-field - 26 Feb 2020 at 10:29pm

I think you should have said, "uncharted."    

SuperDave84 wrote: pre Madonna wrote: Het-field wrote: Sinn Fein are a populist party. They ain’t left. Correct. One of my biggest concerns about them is their failure over the years to properly condemn the church. There may be an element of truth in the earlier post, but SF have always been afraid of being too critical of the one true church. Given that their traditional heartland is a statelet that was wildly, institutionally and irredeemably discriminatory on a unapologetic, blatant, solely religious and sectarian basis, and that that statelet remains, by definition, institutionally sectarian, given the unavoidable result of a political reality featuring a governing structure of enforced coalition, you can't be too surprised that SF don't criticise the CC too frequently.