This isn’t social housing, this is slightly reduced rent private housing.

Labour should have reversed Right To Buy decades ago and restored Council housing to proper levels to cope with the housing crisis, instead they’ve gone along with Tory privatisation of the entire housing market and we’re left with a chronic shortage of homes normal people can afford.

To the 31% of voters who just wouldn’t listen at #GE2024: you angry at voting for 5 more years of Tory bollocks?
https://apple.news/At7ubK5GfS7-WDW4_QSHeDg

It should be abundantly clear to even the dimmest among us that Labour hasn’t been the Party of working people for decades.

Starmer lied his way into the Leadership and immediately reneged on all the promises he’d made.

His Party has done the same to the electorate since #GE2024. Promising ‘change’ but instead only delivering more profits for big business.

If you’re feeling betrayed right now maybe pay attention next time and #VoteGreen for real, lasting change.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/rachel-reeves-non-dom-soften-blackstone-stephen-schwarzman-lobbying-meeting/

Please don’t pretend you’re surprised ToryBoy Starmer is reversing all the progressive promises he made to ‘win’ #GE2024 on 31% of the vote

He lied through his teeth to get Leadership of the New Conservatives (t/a Labour).

If you’re feeling cheated and let down right now you’ve only got your own stupidity to blame.

The rest of us warned you — you chose not to listen.

Scotland — we need to cut ourselves free sooner rather than later.

#LabourLies #YouYesYet?

https://apple.news/AkG3BctNYRGWuveM2qIl4lQ

Considering the increasing discussion about the #Seanad2025 elections (part of Ireland's #GE2024 series of fun) I have the following hot take on Voting:

It's not a duty.

It's not a responsibility.

It's a right, which you can choose to exercise according to your circumstances, to your abilities or to your taste (or, more likely, your distaste).

There are reasons why someone can't, don't or won't vote, and telling them it's a duty or a responsibility is an insidious form of passive aggression.

(for the sake of clarity, I don't have a vote for the Seanad because it's not a general franchise. If I had the choice, I would make it a general franchise, and if I had the right to vote for the Seanad I would exercise that right as often as I possibly can, as I do with the general elections. However, I would never dare to suggest to anyone that they have a responsibility or duty to vote, as doing so without knowing their circumstances might very well be unfair to them!)

A caution for anyone in Ireland with a Seanad vote who has moved house - I updated my address on the normal election register and my polling card for the General Election went there but the Seanad address list must be separate as my ballot paper arrived at the parental home. Thankfully am there to pick up, deadline is 29th Jan.

Thanks for the 30c ReTurn Lorraine, maybe you’ll get the Seanad as consolation. #ge24 #ge2024 #irishelection

Finally got all posters down! About 20 of the 150 I had seem to have gone missing.

At €15 a pop, they're not cheap so please let me know if you find any!

Oh bless! I see our fashy far right brethren are all fighting like rats in a sack since they were unceremoniously given the heave ho by the Irish electorate.

(With apologies to Bernard Mulvaney if he is on here. I couldn’t find an a/c).

Next steps! Please consider getting involved in tenants/workers unions and in community groups, especially if you're also a young person.

Change is about more than voting once every 5 years; it is something we must all collectively fight for day-to-day!

#WeAllThrive #Democratise #Decentralise #Decarbonise #Democracy #Waterford #Déise #GE2024 #GE24 #IrishElection #IrishElection24 #IrishElection2024 #Ireland #Irish #Progressive #Independent #EcoSocialist
#Activism #Climate #Housing #Diversity

And with that, all 174 seats in the Dáil have been filled.

Now the coalition talks can begin. It took months to form a government after the 2020 election. Will it take as long this time?

The count in Cavan-Monaghan has concluded, and this constituency is as-you-were.

We're still waiting on the final count in Cavan-Monaghan, and the final count of the general election.

Sarah O'Reilly is going to need 80% of Cathy Bennett's surplus in order to get elected. From what I've seen in other constituencies when the last Sinn Féin candidate has been excluded, in particular the number of non-transferrable votes that follow this, I simply don't think that's going to happen.

I'm so grateful to all who gave me a vote and who supported me in any way over the past few weeks and months!

The momentum continues to grow from the locals, with double the votes in half the time canvassing, and I'm proud of how the campaign went!

Even though Cavan-Monaghan is still counting, I think I've seen enough to rule out Aontú winning the fifth seat in that constituency. That one will be as-you-were.

And with that, this is what the final seat count in the Dáil will look like when that constituency has finished.

Counting has concluded in Louth, following a marathon 20 counts! I think that's the most this whole election!

Fianna Fáil gains one seat from an independent here.

Just one constituency left.

The count has now completed in TIpperary North.

That recount always seemed unnecessary, as it was clear at the end of count 9 that both candidates would be excluded in one order or the other. And that's what happened.

No change in this constituency. Two to go.