Comment on What you want to say – 22nd January 2014 by WorldbyStorm
You wouldn’t revise that lm2012 and email me your analysis and I’ll post it up as a proper post if you like. It’s a very handy overview of what’s at stake this year.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 22nd January 2014 by doctorfive
good read on events in Ukraine http://revolution-news.com/ukrainian-anarchist-dispels-myths-surrounding-euromaidan-protests-warns-of-fascist-influence/
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 22nd January 2014 by dilettante
Hush-puppies and all that?
View ArticleComment on Issues for the left… by survival supplies water
Spot on with this write-up, I really believe this site needs a great deal more attention. I’ll probably be returning to read through more, thanks for the info!
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Johnny Forty Coats
Goodness gracious me! It echoes the “nationalist and (neo)fascist right” does it? We certainly can’t have that, can we? Here’s an interesting passage I came across recently: “For many centuries past...
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Liberius
Surely what undermines Euroscepticism is the momentum that the EU and European integration have acquired, once the 2004 expansion happened the scale of the EU had created something of a geopolitical...
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Liberius
4.31% in 2009. Sure there is plausibility of significant improvement on that without Joe Higgins and with a declining Labour vote; but is it all that much of a chance? I wouldn’t exactly be rating it...
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Jack Jameson
Some of Patricia McKenna’s performances since leaving the Greens would have done her no favours amongst those voters old enough to have maybe once voted for her, and her dropping out of politics for a...
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Johnny Forty Coats
Full marks to Genosse CL! The quotation is from the English-language edition of “Signal”, a German propaganda magazine which appeared fortnightly from April 1940 to March 1945. Circulation peaked at...
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Johnny Forty Coats
When McKenna lost her seat in 2004, despite winning 9.6% of the first-preference vote, Higgins had 5.5% on the first count. Having been elected in 2009, Higgins couldn’t be bothered to complete his...
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Johnny Forty Coats
I have no idea what “performances” you have in mind. As for predicting the future, if I wanted to pick a certain winner I’d plump for Fine Gael. In reality, I am much more influenced by a candidate’s...
View ArticleComment on About Europe by Liberius
Surely you’d be willing to recognise that my comment was erring towards the technical rather than the partisan. Wrecker in this case is just my attempt to draw parallels with the controversy created by...
View ArticleComment on You may have missed this earlier: From the selection in the Left...
Some of that sort of stuff from IPR reminds me a little of Desmond Fennell, in tone, not substance, who in my book is a more interesting thinker but has in recent years become less so – it’s all sort...
View ArticleComment on More on the Central Library by rockroots
This is good news for Parnell Square, which can be a fairly drab place at the moment, but unless there is genuine regeneration of the area I’d be concerned that the move will make the library less...
View ArticleComment on Meanwhile, back at the Reform Alliance, see the new thinking, the...
1350 people a half dozen or so TDs: first item on RTE news. 4000 people at event in March 2012 with half dozen or so TDs: fourth item on RTE news. Why is that?
View ArticleComment on Meanwhile, back at the Reform Alliance, see the new thinking, the...
In the week Mount Carmel closes, Ed Walsh wants more private health care- still I suppose on his pension from UL he can afford it. (Mr. Ed’s big idea a few years ago was that Peter Sutherland be...
View ArticleComment on And just when you’re waiting for a poll to turn up, two arrive at...
Just for the sake of comparison between the various polling firms in Ireland I’ve averaged each firms polls from January 2012 onward to these most recent entries. For Fine Gael the averages are as...
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