If we really want change at the next election.....

umop3p!sdn said:

The Irish government only really for show now anyway.
Our real leaders aren't in the Dáil.

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so who do you consider to be the real leaders?

Mpsox said:

so who do you consider to be the real leaders?

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I'm guessing he means higher civil servants.

Or the EU?

or the unions ?

The bankers?

We don't have Leaders, we have Rulers . . and they are the Germans and unelected eurocrats.

Pique318 said:

Not really Kaiser:

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I don't buy that for a second.

Was there a statistically significant survey of members of irish polictical parties or did someone just fill in the chart based on their perceived relativities?

I did that survey and I'm down with Ghandi and the Dalai Lama. And I still think FF are more left wing than me.

I'll elaborate slightly. I think they're all fairly left wing when it comes to spending but have been right wing on taxation of incomes and profit!

As a country, a large majority of us have no problem with social welfare, state subsidised health care and free education. In fact we'd probably happily pay the taxation required to support all of these in the normal course of events. That makes us pretty left leaning in the general scheme of things.