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Who would I vote for?

I am happy enough to say I am "centre right" of some sort: So who would I vote for?




In Ireland:

In Ireland right now, I do not know who to vote for.
  

Fine Gael

Once, a centre right person like me would vote for Fine Gael. But look at all the list of things wrong with them now:
  1. A high tax party. They promised for over a decade to reduce tax but never did.
  2. A high immigration party. I'm not a zero immigration person. But FG, and other Irish parties, seem to have no limits.
  3. Their war on energy exploration, in their surrender to climate ideology. Their ban on oil and gas exploration. Their ban on fracking. Their ban on turf. Their support for the ban on nuclear power. Their absolute war on energy sources. And now an "energy crisis".
  4. Forced statist (not market) regulation of housing that helped lead to the housing crisis. Rent controls. Rent pressure zones. Bedsit ban. Small apartment ban. Eviction ban. Airbnb regulation.
  5. Their fanatic position against an agreed Brexit with the UK. They have encouraged the EU to keep the process in chaos.
  6. The Gender Recognition Act. Their surrender (with no debate) of women's rights to trans ideology.
  7. The Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences Bill 2022 (the "hate speech" law). Women will have to believe in trans ideology or be arrested.
  8. A dreadful, DFA-driven, pro-UN, anti-Israel foreign policy that escalated into something far darker since 7 October.
  9. Irish recognition of the State of Palestine, May 2024. Fine Gael rewarding the rape and massacre of 7 October.
  10. Their depraved boycott of Israel. A Jew-boycott given real power by a real Irish government. Sick and shameful. Fine Gael is absolutely deranged with hatred for Israel now.
There is almost nothing to like about them any more. I wonder will I vote for them ever again, for the rest of my life.
  

Fianna Fail

So how about Fianna Fail, once also a home for the centre right voter?
I liked them under Charlie McCreevy and Bertie Ahern. Their promotion of enterprise was impressive.
But they have gone downhill since. The same things that make Fine Gael unimpressive:
  1. A high tax party.
  2. A high immigration party.
  3. Sabotaging energy production because of climate ideology.
  4. The bedsit ban, that helped lead to the housing crisis.
  5. Pro-EU, anti-Brexit fanatics.
  6. Also not supporting women's rights to their own spaces.
  7. Pro censorship, anti free speech.
  8. Also a standard pro-UN, anti-Israel foreign policy.
  9. Also rewarding 7 October with a state.
  10. Also supporting the Jew-boycott.
Nothing much to recommend them either.
FF and FG are shell parties. Labour clones occupying the emptied nests of two old parties that were completely different to the modern versions.

Discussion

  


The kind of thing that puts me off Fine Gael:
Simon Coveney, FG Minister for Foreign Affairs, promotes a tweet from a terrorist embassy, 13 May 2022. Utterly shameful.
  

The new, woke Fine Gael, under students union leftist Taoiseach Simon Harris, signs up Ireland to recognise the state of "Palestine" in May 2024, as a reward for the terrorist massacre of 7 October.
"Ireland stands with Palestine and the Palestinian people."
Why would I vote for this godawful party?



The Irish government in Aug 2024 spreading misinformation on X and inciting hatred on X, at the same time as the Irish government complains about people spreading misinformation on X and inciting hatred on X.
Of course, contrary to Martin's bigoted misinformation, the IDF explained the attack in detail.



A chart about UK parties' positions on Israel produced in 2024 by the Workers Party GB.
The Workers Party are a sick pro-jihad party. But let's consider the chart for a minute.
If this chart is true, UK Labour is saner on Israel than Ireland's fake "conservative" parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fail.



After the appalling ICC issued an "arrest warrant" for the Israeli PM in Nov 2024, the appalling Fine Gael Taoiseach said he would arrest the Israeli PM if he came to Ireland.
"Neutral" Ireland is willing to start a war with a foreign country for no reason whatsoever.



I call Simon Harris the Minister for Boycotting the Jews.
As at 2025, he is completely obsessed, deranged with hatred of Israel.
There will be consequences. He may actually wreck the Irish economy to try to help the jihad.


  

Israeli embassy closes, Dec 2024

  

Is there any Irish party I could vote for?

No large centre-right party exists. Once it does, I'm back.




The best Irish head of government ever

I think Bertie Ahern is the best Taoiseach ever. Far from perfect (e.g. on foreign policy). But, I think, the best Ireland has had to date.

I blame Brian Cowen, not Ahern, for wrecking the Celtic Tiger by bailing out the banks starting in Sept 2008. Ahern was gone in May 2008. Maybe he would have bailed out the banks. Maybe he wouldn't. But the fact is, he didn't.

If I ranked the Irish heads of government since 1919, I think I would choose the best:


Best: Bertie Ahern Made Ireland rich. Privatisation (especially of airlines and telecoms). Low tax. Ended unemployment. Ended emigration. Ended poverty. Helped US and allies in War on Islamism (kept Shannon open). Ended NI conflict. Established power-sharing in NI.
Bad things: Anti-Israel.
2nd best: W.T. Cosgrave Set up a democracy. Defeated violent anti-Treaty forces. Ended the 1916-23 violence. Stabilised relations with Britain. 1922 constitution (much better than 1937 one). Peacefully surrendered power when lost 1932 election. Today, only 10 countries in the world have been democracies as long as Ireland.
Bad things: Executions without trial in Civil War. Links with the Blueshirts.


And the worst:


Worst: Eamon de Valera Crap economy. Protectionism. State monopolies. Economic War. Sexual repression. Catholic Church rule. 1937 constitution. Irish language compulsion. Censorship. Neutrality. Treachery in WW2. Sneering moral equivalence. Condolences on death of Hitler. Entrenched partition. Personal corruption. And before he was in power: Refused to accept pro-Treaty vote. Caused Civil War. Burnt centuries of Irish historical records at Custom House.
2nd worst: Charles Haughey Crap economy. State monopolies. Sexual repression. Catholic Church rule. Neutrality. Opposition to Falklands War. Entrenched partition. Personal corruption. And before he was in power: Burnt Union Jack on VE-Day in 1945.
3rd worst: Brian Cowen Bailed out private banks. Bailed out private investors in banks. Bailed out foreign investors in banks. Sold Irish sovereignty to EU. Blasphemy law. And Anti-Israel.




This 2020 chart sums up why I prefer Bertie Ahern to current FF and FG.
These are Fine Gael promises before the 2020 election.
I cannot see the one thing I want, tax cuts, on this list. I see 6 items that require more tax. No tax cuts.
Leo Varadkar claimed to be a leader for the taxpayer, for "the people who get up early". But he never was that.


  


The greatest Irish person ever





In the UK:

In the UK I am not sure either.

  

The Tories

I have mixed feelings about the Conservative party.
Good things: Bad things:
  

Reform

I have mixed feelings on Reform (formerly the Brexit Party).
They seem good on a lot of things except one big thing: Foreign policy.
  

Labour

Blair's Labour party was a grown-up party that supported the war against the jihad. Blair helped destroy the Taliban and Saddam Hussein regimes. I would vote for that party.
In 2015-2020, under Corbyn, Labour became a disgusting, communist, anti-semitic, pro-terrorist party that no decent person could vote for, like the BNP.
Today, Corbyn is gone, and we will see if the party gets better.

Notes

  


Boris Johnson won a landslide for the Tories in 2019. He had an ability to reach entirely new voters that no other Tory had.
For whatever reason, the Tories decided to get rid of him in 2022.
A landslide defeat for the Tories in 2024 was the result.
From here.



The Liberal Democrats

I would never vote Liberal Democrat given their extreme left foreign policy.




Fire rockets randomly at Jews:
Open support for Islamic jihad terror from Lib Dem MP David Ward, 22 July 2014.



Tory MP David Gauke replies, and asks David Ward a tough question. Nice one.
Great news: David Ward loses seat in 2015 election.



The Tories


David Cameron


The kind of thing that puts me off the Tories





An Israel-hater is impressed by Cameron. I am not.



The kind of thing that puts me off Labour




Hilarious compilation of clips from the Labour 2019 party conference.
What a bunch of loonies.
My favourite is the "workers of the world unite" guy.


  

The best UK and US heads of government ever

I think I would vote for, as best UK and US heads of government ever:


Best UK Prime Minister ever Winston Churchill Saved Britain. Saved Ireland. Saved Europe. Saved the West.
Best US President ever Ronald Reagan Won global war without bloodshed. Destroyed Soviet Empire. Destroyed communism. Liberated Europe.




In the US:

In the US I would probably, with reservations, vote: And I would not vote:



Why I would never vote Democrat:
Nine prominent Democrats show why no one who believes in the War on Islamism should vote Democrat.



"Speaking Democrat: A Primer" is a hilarious speech actually delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives by Thad McCotter in June 2008.
The section on "Speaking Global Democrat" allows us finally translate Obama's speeches:

"DIPLOMACY" = "MAGIC"
"Democrats will protect America from Iranian nukes through tough, principled diplomacy."
Translation: "Democrats will protect America from Iranian nukes through tough, principled magic."

"ENGAGE" = "APPEASE"
"Democrats will engage America' enemies."
Translation: "Democrats will appease America's enemies."

"END" = "LOSE"
"Democrats will end the Iraq War."
Translation: "Democrats will lose the Iraq War."




Why I would never vote for the Libertarian Party

The idea of libertarianism is appealing. But the reality of the Libertarian Party is repellent.
  

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire compares Ukraine to Nazi Germany, Oct 2022.
They are so anti-state and "anti-war" that they will spin for the fascist imperialist regime of Russia.



The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire pimps for both Russia and China, July 2023.
Dictators everywhere love this "freedom loving" party.



From the Libertarian Party (national) in Dec 2022.
This was during the visit of Ukrainian President Zelensky to the USA during the Ukraine war, Dec 2022. Zelensky's first visit anywhere during the Ukraine war.
The Libertarian Party seems to despise any struggle for liberty against tyranny.



The Libertarian Party may actually be the worst party in America.
Apart from their extremist text, they post an unsourced video:

  


Voting is not for idealists

Voting is of course not for idealists. You almost always have to choose the lesser of two evils and vote for someone who promotes some policies you hate. I have serious problems with all of the above parties. For all of them, I would be voting for a lesser evil.

My dream party would be:

  1. Secular, libertarian.
  2. Anti-censorship, pro-sexual liberty, anti-drug war.
  3. Pro-women's rights. Anti-gender cult.
  4. Tough on actual crime.
  5. Pro-market, pro-free trade.
  6. Pro-West, pro-Israel, Eurosceptic.
  7. Anti-sharia, anti-jihad, pro-War-on-Islamism.
Why does such a party not exist?



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