The dust has settled on the general election and a new Irish Government looks set to be established in the coming days.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael return to power once again and the composition of their coalition appears relatively unchanged from the last Government.
What has changed most substantially is the third wheel: gone are the Greens, almost entirely annihilated with the exception of hapless Roderic O’Gorman, and in with the “Regional Independents.”
But who are these Regional Independents really?
If the reports are to be believed, they will include two Super Junior Ministers, Noel Grealish and Sean Canney, and another two Junior Ministers Marian Harkin and Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran. An interesting pattern emerges—Noel Grealish was in the Progressive Democrats and formed part of a coalition with Fianna Fáil, Seán Canney was a government minister at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the Fine Gael-Independent coalition of 2016, to be succeeded by Mr. Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran.
Of these four independent ministers, three have already been part of government coalitions with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael. As for Marian Harkin, who served as an MEP in the European Parliament for fifteen years, she was part of the same ALDE political grouping as Fianna Fáil that has now merged into Renew Europe.
Then we have the Healy-Raes. Immediately after the results of the general election, Michael Healy-Rae went to Twitter and proclaimed that he had just three items to discuss before he would consider entering government: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry.
Well, we say to Mr. Healy Rae that the sole item that we would consider if we were in his shoes is Ireland and a government that serves the Irish people and acts for the Irish people. There is little hope that we will get this bare minimum from any of these chancers.
All we will get from this government is a partial amelioration of our present crisis without the fundamentals changing. Immigration will continue at a steadier rate, and the asylum crisis will grow a tad slower, but people will continue to emigrate at ever-increasing rates, perhaps the only thing that will match rising house prices for wages.
We have heard arguments often that Sinn Féin is the greatest block to a nationalist right-wing in Ireland, but it is these Independents who are far worse. Sinn Féin drew its support from varied interests with a common goal of deposing the Government. It could not hold onto all its eggs in the one basket and when it diverged on immigration, its coalition crumbled.
Independents by their parochial nature enjoy an ideological flexibility that allows them to reposition accordingly to suit public opinion. Sinn Féin, as a national movement, could not immediately change its rhetoric on immigration to suit a geographical, social section of its base in working-class Dublin.
At the end of the day, these people will uphold the status quo. To achieve our objectives, we require radical change and this is a political class naturally resistant to it. The next five years will clear the way once more for a radical alternative. These Regional Independents may not even survive the next five years if we put our minds to it.
For all their flaws, the independent TD will speak to you face to face. We should take this opportunity to contact them and ask them to reduce the migrant inflow and start remigration flow. Even those independent TDs who are renting refugee properties will agree with us that most refugees are fake and that we have far too many foreigners in the country. If they get contacted repeatedly, by hundreds of voters, that will put pressure on them. Be polite, persistent and very clear in what you want your TD to do: ask a question, propose a new law, etc
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Ireland’s Ulterior Motivators …cash…cars…compensation,corruption !
When the electorate voted for the Independents it was because they all generally promised to Challange FFG…not necessarily to form govt. with the bastards, otherwise they would have voted for FFG in the first place.
The useless incumbent pricks having completed their now Expected Shuffle after a GE, having again fu.king lied.again a fu.king minority coalition …bought out 1st Independant Murphy…with the Ceann C bribe and she’s Delivered Already by allowing Independants in Government Coalition to use up OPPOSITION TIME AND QUESTIONS.
If your in A COALITION YOUR COMPROMISED – CORRUPTED…
and sold out the electorate for your own fu.kin ulterior motives – Gains.
The Poor Hooley Boys…Junior and Super Fu.kin Junior, the swap for the Green Gobshite Gombeens who were allowed to run rampant in office but slaughtered as a sacrificial lamb by FFG. By destroying the early formation of Independant Choice, you DESTROY THE ELECTORATE.
There’s nothing in these obnoxious bastards armoury that they have not used so far, fascist,communist,dictatorship…FAR FU.KING RIGHT.
The College Dropout, Abortionist, Failed Ministerial Posts, A Tanaiste and Trade Portfolios to destroy in his slimy weak incompetent maulers.
The Teacher, obviously not his vocation,held dearly by Irish Ancestors who taught and respected Irish Langauge Culture and Sovereignty and understood what a Leader Is, and it’s meaning in Irish Culture.
This will be THEIR END GAME TOO…having destroyed all voter choices it will be the Children, the next Generations of Irish Children who will treat them with the contempt they deserve,the bitterness and angry stares in the street, the spit on their graves for the POLITICAL VIOLENCE USED IN DESTROYING IRISH LEGACY AND LIVES.