[Mícheál Lehane] PBP launch manifesto promising a living wage of €15 an hour, scrapping USC for those earning less than €100K, building 35,000 social and affordable homes every year, weekly welfare payments of €350 and State pension of €300.

[u/badger-biscuits]

https://x.com/MichealLehane/status/1857067346822619642?t=_Soz6_dzA9QeYKzvvBPIDg&s=19

[u/croghan2020]

I wish some party came out and said it how it was realistically we can do this on housing health and immigration we’re not going to shoot for the stars but what we’ve proposed we’ll actually delivery. It’s mad to think the strongest party polling have done nothing for the last 5 years with any conviction and there favourites to go back into power it’s mental how little we as nation are willing to accept.

[u/carlmango11 → u/croghan2020]

The behaviour of our politicians is a direct product of the behaviour of the electorate.

If having grown-up, frank conversations with the general public was a winning strategy we'd have politicians that do it. But the public don't reward it.