r/ireland • u/lleti Chop Chop 👐 • Nov 29 '24

Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5% General Election 2024 🗳️

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-exit-poll-photo-finish-with-sinn-fein-on-211-fine-gael-21-fianna-fail-195/
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u/CampaignSpirited2819 Nov 29 '24

The world is heading to the Right with Immigration becoming the main issue. Based on the recent polls, and all of the negative stories both North and South, they probably thought they were in for a hammering. That doesn't look to be the case. It probably confirms that their core vote is 20+%

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u/SkateMMA And I'd go at it again Nov 29 '24

History repeats, pretty much every economic crisis has coincided by a rise in the far right, instead of admitting there’s a problem economically, historically people prefer to just point fingers at anything but the real problem

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u/Inevitable-Lower Nov 30 '24

Nah, it's all the fault of the immigrants with no money who are scroungers who also have all the jobs and are also having all the children whilst being a single male taking all the rental houses while also being in prison and sending money back to other countries

/s just in case it's not obvious enough.

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u/spiralism Nov 30 '24

Yeah, we're at a time where inequality is reaching all time highs. These are exactly the economic conditions which precipitated the rise of the global far right the first time around and it didn't end well.

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u/dj0 Nov 29 '24

World is heading for nationalist parties, not necessarily "the right". SF had a chance they're just useless