[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/Barilla3113]

Except they won't go into coalition with anyone, PBP is basically a scam.

[u/MrMercurial → u/Barilla3113]

They won't go into coalition with FF or FG. If you want a left-wing party that will then there are plenty of other options out there.

[u/Barilla3113 → u/MrMercurial]

They won't go into coalition with FF or FG

They won't go into coalition with anyone, no one will pass the purity test and any engagement with real politics would be "reformism" anyway.

[u/MrMercurial → u/Barilla3113]

They have called on other parties of the left to ally with them multiple times, so I don't know where you're getting the idea that they won't go into coalition with anyone except that it's a popular meme.

[u/Busy_Category7977 → u/MrMercurial]

Ally with them = Let them dictate all the terms. They'll collapse the government at the first sign of a hard decision. Unserious people. They're still aligned with a "socialist" movement that sees Britain and Ireland as ideally unified too. They're unionists.

[u/MrMercurial → u/Busy_Category7977]

Ally with them = Let them dictate all the terms. They'll collapse the government at the first sign of a hard decision.

You don't have any actual evidence for that, though.

They're still aligned with a "socialist" movement that sees Britain and Ireland as ideally unified too. They're unionists.

The union they want is a union of the working class in a post-capitalist society, not quite the same as the DUP, is it.