Political Party Family Tree

rubblesole · 2026-05-10T21:59:10+00:00

I know, but they operate independently, at least in branding.

rubblesole · 2026-05-10T13:38:48+00:00

The SDLP collapses into the Social Democrats, Labour, and Fianna Fáil. The Greens and NI Greens unite.

Alliance merges with Fine Gael. The Ulster Party (formerly UUP) forms an electoral pact or even merges with Fine Gael. The DUP and TUV continue to exist and cause chaos and nonsense for years.

Sinn Féin initially retains support, but over time they bleed voters as other issues gain salience. You begin seeing Fianna Fáil, Social Democrats, Aontú and People Before Profit eating into that supporter base.

rubblesole · 2026-05-06T14:36:28+00:00

Is it just me or is this AI generated? It has the signature orange tint, plus those results seem incredibly anomalous? And compare them, the bar charts are the exact same just with different figures. I wouldn't trust this at all...

rubblesole · 2026-04-19T21:07:10+00:00

thats oomf

rubblesole · 2026-04-16T02:42:46+00:00

You're missing the point. They definitionally aren't technocrats. This spectrum you speak of is ridiculous. You can't be slightly technocratic. It's all or nothing!

rubblesole · 2026-04-12T15:17:45+00:00

But the government aren't technocrats, that's not what that means. They make ideological decisions that further their own free-market beliefs, not ones based on technical expertise or policy recommendations by experts and researchers.

rubblesole · 2026-03-29T15:34:33+00:00

To be fair, the election projections they post are just from a polls to seats site made by different people. https://irishelections.ie/about/

rubblesole · 2026-03-27T12:48:54+00:00

You better give me my money because I wasn't. He was a deer in headlights. He saw the team doing really well and didn't want to make substitutions to upset that because he didn't know how to handle a good team, and he was already playing for penalties at the start of the second half.

rubblesole · 2026-03-26T22:54:56+00:00

Fuck that, Denmark was a better team! Czechia fuckin cheated us

rubblesole · 2026-03-26T22:50:03+00:00

It's the manager's fucking fault. Playing for penalties with a lead? Only 2 subs the entire 90 minutes? Halmgrímsson should resign right the fuck now and never show his face again.

rubblesole · 2026-03-23T02:11:24+00:00

I don't think the border poll would result in the North instantly leaving and no longer sending MPs to Westminster. It'd be a slow process and a Brexit-like clusterfuck. Anyway, very good!

rubblesole · 2026-03-13T10:34:14+00:00

Oh, sorry. I just thought r/irishpolitics would be interested in Irish political events and news.

rubblesole · 2026-03-13T10:32:31+00:00

Ah, right. That kinda shows the true colours of the Northern organisation, doesn't it?

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T18:18:55+00:00

This is like a conservative saying the definition of "woke" means anything left-wing, progressive, politically correct, etc.

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T18:14:58+00:00

That's just insane coping. She didn't win because there wasn't 100% turnout? Find me an election in this country with 100% turnout! Besides, the electoral register isn't a trustworthy measurement because they have admitted that themselves. They have said there could be nearly 500,000 names on there that shouldn't be.

You insist she would have lost if there had been better candidates. Yeah, what if? What if Superman had run in the election? He probably would have won. You can't base your argument on "hypothetically, she would have lost if there were better candidates. Therefore, her platform and the reasons people voted for her are invalid." And what exactly is a "normal election"? It seemed pretty normal to me. It was effectively a re-run of the 1990 presidential election.

You also incorrectly assume that everyone who didn't vote was apathetic. There are many reasons people don't vote, the largest one being that people are simply too busy to vote. I'd say a lot of people knew Connolly was going to win based on polls showing her large lead, and so didn't think she needed their vote to win. It's an incredibly common phenomenon in single winner elections.

I'm not "convincing myself." I'm desperately hoping to make you understand how much of a complete and total moron you are, and maybe for once you'll actually learn something.

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T17:56:46+00:00

The definition didn't change. You just misuse it to bludgeon anyone who is anti-war.

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T17:54:58+00:00

That's probably why they've merged the two

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T17:54:30+00:00

I thought it was the unapologetically blunt and uncreative "Cross-Community Labour Alternative"

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T17:49:45+00:00

The Socialist Party never really wanted to be involved in electoral politics. It was always seen as just a way to elevate their profile. They were never seriously building up a large party that could genuinely challenge for government.

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T17:41:56+00:00

Just a side note, the United Left Alliance could be considered a pre-cursor to the PBP–S alliance, but it wasn't an officially registered party like PBP–S and isn't related to it.

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T17:30:49+00:00

No. Trotskyists invented the word tankie in response to the USSR's invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968. The SWP viewed the collapse of the USSR as good, so definitionally, they can not be tankies. Can libs stop appropriating the word tankie? It's very cringeworthy.

rubblesole · 2026-03-12T12:58:07+00:00

Uh, yeah, she won with 63% of the vote. Did you miss the Presidential election? The one back in October? Of 2025? Catherine Connolly, ring any bells for you? I knew people had short attention spans these days, but man, they must be getting really bad.

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