Ireland's CRAZY Close Elections Explained

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@EUMadeSimple Ай бұрын

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@paulhickey2356 Ай бұрын

Would really appreciate a video on PR-STV (Proportional Representation-Single Transferable Vote) Ie

@potatogamble Ай бұрын

video on different electoral systems used in europe would be great, like where first past the post is used and whatever + what diff countries use in the eu parliament elections

@Oriolesgmufan Ай бұрын

Videos on electoral systems are great. So many weird systems out there.

@ecurewitz Ай бұрын

@@Oriolesgmufansame

@fintonmainz7845 Ай бұрын

No EU country uses "first past the post"

@maryburke5423 Ай бұрын

No one except the USA and the Uk use fptp.

@potatogamble 26 күн бұрын

@@fintonmainz7845 yeah not in the eu the UK and Belarus does but its not solely about fptp, just interesting to see the diff systems

@NiallMcEvoy05 Ай бұрын

Warning to other Irish people in the comments. Don't correct him for saying "prime minister". We know what he means and more importantly the rest of his viewers knows what he means.

@SunnyBuoy1 Ай бұрын

Your refering to our Tee-shock Niall yeah ..?

@COPELEFT Ай бұрын

Nothing has changed a different EU puppet now

@DanielCostello-fz1ss Ай бұрын

@@SunnyBuoy1 careful now sunny you might hurt niall's ego as he speaks for all of us, God forbid we might have a problem with too much immigration and be called right winngers by niall.

@sgtrevolver9453 Ай бұрын

When talking about British politics, people use Prime Ministers, and when talking about German politics people use Chancellor, and when talking about American politics people use president, all to refer to the leader of a country, so it's not difficult to use the Irish terminology to respect the Irish people and our politics

@RazorMouth Ай бұрын

@@sgtrevolver9453 Chancellor is an English word and basically similar to calling Irelands leader Prime minister 😂 In our constitution both Taoiseach and Prime Minister are used, both are valid. Boring argument that is so easy to debunk with little effort.

@mango2005 Ай бұрын

I gave 10 preference votes. I wanted not only to elect someone, but also to block other candidates I was most opposed to.

@theo_2949 Ай бұрын

Wdym block

@creanero Ай бұрын

@@theo_2949 "blocking" in this context means giving a preference for candidates you are ambivalent towards ahead of candidates you despise. The logic is that, if it comes down to it, you'd prefer "anyone but that guy." Our electoral system is sometimes called "instant run off" because it simulates what would happen if one candidate after another didn't run until you've picked a winner who enough people agree on that they couldn't be caught.

@Optimise247 Ай бұрын

@@creanero I've also heard it referred to as a least objectional system. The person who is liked least is removed and we vote again.

@docopoper Ай бұрын

I feel a lot of national pride about our voting system. It is a really good system and I'd love other countries to adopt it. So I'd love a video on it.

@TheDaisey68 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@JakeFlynn-du9nw Ай бұрын

@@TheDaisey68how tf was that in any way funny? 😅

@margaretmorrissey4540 Ай бұрын

Our voting system is a joke it's pretty much like everything else is in this country

@MuonRay Ай бұрын

@@JakeFlynn-du9nw Oh I don't know maybe because it sounds like something a person on some serious psychedelic drugs would say. You know the ones where reality itself dissolves into pure irony.

@JakeFlynn-du9nw Ай бұрын

@@MuonRay so you think saying our electoral system which is a very fair and good way for some smaller parties to get into government instead of 2 parties being the only option like the states is something only someone on psychedelics would say? It’s insane how much people like you like to complain about absolutely everything. Be glad we’ve got a very good electoral system

@sigurdbigset Ай бұрын

YES MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE IRISH ELECTION SYSTEM, IT IS MY FAVOURITE ELECTIONSYSTEM!!!!!

@calibvr Ай бұрын

its hot garbage

@callu947 Ай бұрын

It’s pure muck that just propagates centralism. I hate it and I live in it

@RonocHK Ай бұрын

@@calibvr When compared to other systems such as the US and UK it's amazing

@NegativeAccelerate Ай бұрын

@calibvr bro, the troubles would have ended 20 years earlier if they had the Irish voting system. Even to this day, everyone who is in the middle has to vote either sinn find or DUP when in reality they despise those parties. If the UK had the Irish voting system, all the people who strongly opposed war would have voted in the peace parties like alliance and SDLP. My boyfriend is northern Irish and I always make fun of him for voting DUP when he would much rather SDLP.

@thisguy976 Ай бұрын

@@calibvr It's a lot better than France, Germany, the UK, the USA, Japan, Russia, China, India, Israel, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

@DesInDublin Ай бұрын

We love the PR single transferable vote in multi seat constituencies. We also use a paper based system which also eliminates fraud and ‘russian’ bots. There was an unusually low turnout because there was really no alternative government on offer and the majority want a political centre government

@gloin10 28 күн бұрын

The turnout percentage was actually out quite significantly, because the number of actual, eligible, voters on the register is actually smaller, by about 500,000, than those listed. The real turnout was close to 76-78%.

@GribGFX Ай бұрын

Not close when you consider FF and FG are just going to join together in a coalition.

@tortoisewarrior4855 Ай бұрын

Yeah last election SF won the plurality of votes nearly seats, and they were still opposition.

@JesusOrDestruction Ай бұрын

Thank God

@WeBlanchin Ай бұрын

Completely Antidemocratic that Sinn Féin can't get seats

@JimmyOhAnnrachain-ot5md Ай бұрын

I didn't really like First Past the Post voting but honestly after seeing Ireland's way of voting and it's constant coalitions I'm actually happy we have it here in the UK. Imagine if Ireland had the same process, Sinn Féin would of already had a Taoiseach @@WeBlanchin

@Dreyno Ай бұрын

@@WeBlanchinThey get exactly the amount of seats they earn from the voters. Absolutely nothing undemocratic about it.

@andre_nikon Ай бұрын

A video or, even better, a series of videos on different voting systems please🙏🏻 Like I’m not even entirely sure how the voting system works here in Latvia, so would really appreciate a clarifying video about it!

@theretep 29 күн бұрын

FYI, Most people here in Ireland regard Independent Ireland as racists.

@karencahill3552 29 күн бұрын

Whats a racist ???? Explain yourself ............

@markpower9081 29 күн бұрын

I don't know about that, but their leader is an anti-vaxxer.

@aaronoffline8049 Ай бұрын

There will be a rotating taoiseach as part of the coalition deal so Simon Harris will be Taoiseach again for at least a couple of years.

@yougoglencoco08 Ай бұрын

Will there this time? I thought with FG being the junior party this time Simon might have to settle for Tanaiste. They were on a more level number of seats in 2020 hence the equal footing and rotating Taoiseach.

@gloin10 Ай бұрын

Maybe, maybe not. Some Fianna Fáil people are claiming that their ten seat advantage rules the rotating Taoiseach option out.

@jamiegrant5955 Ай бұрын

@@yougoglencoco08 I imagine it will be 3 years of Martin as Taoiseach followed by two years of Harris.

@jamiegrant5955 Ай бұрын

@@gloin10 But that would leave SF as their only viable coalition partner (who they've already ruled out) were FG to play hardball over the issue.

@j123-x2r Ай бұрын

Yeah, now that hes the 3rd party not the 2nd, no chance of him to be pm immediately. Because if he got 2nd he can still try and get deals with the 3rd and the rest.

@woodsonsykes1748 Ай бұрын

3:10 i would be very interested in how their voting system works. It sounds very cool.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

It's great fun and leads to sophisticated voting where your other preferences could be vital to other candidates.

@Justin-cr4od Ай бұрын

Can you do a video about the Icelandic elections. Since the pro EU Social Democrats won the election.

@Slippin_Jimmy1012 Ай бұрын

Please do a video on Single-Transferable-Voting! I would like to see how it works and its benefits and drawbacks!

@RafaelW8 Ай бұрын

You should take a look at Iceland. With the recent elections, it seems likely that it will resume their path towards EU membership. There's been talk of EU referendum.

@gloin10 Ай бұрын

Irish elections are only “…crazy…” in the sense that the electoral system is fair, representative and proportional. The Irish electorate basically chose continuity and competence over delusional claims about ‘change’. Most of us decided that having a Sinn Féin-led administration in the era of Trump’s lunacy was NOT a good idea. Regarding EU membership, the Irish are the most positive population in the union, with support for membership close to 90% of the electorate. With the possible exception of ‘Independent Ireland’, EVERY party in An Dáil is pro-EU. There is NOTHING resembling the anti-EU movement in Britain. The Green Party shared the historical fate of basically EVERY junior partner in Irish coalition governments, in that they got slaughtered after being in government. This is the second time this happened to the Green Party, and it happened to the Irish Labour Party several times as well. This historical trend is the main reason why both Labour and the Social Democrats are reluctant to go into coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Coalition negotiations will be difficult, and we probably won’t see a new government formed before January 2025.

@JohnBradley-v7k Ай бұрын

Competence 😂😂. We have a housing crisis. 15,000 people homeless. A health system on its knees. An immigration crisis. We have the debacle with the children's hospital. I could go on and on but won't bother.

@puppydestroyah Ай бұрын

What's your income bracket and how many properties do you own

@Ojj2002 Ай бұрын

Sinn fein was ahead until she came out saying she didnt support the riots

@toyotaprius79 Ай бұрын

Competency? You glaring bias is showing

@toyotaprius79 Ай бұрын

@@Ojj2002you mean when all the British/Yank directed operatives flooded everyone's Facebook, WhatsApp and telegram with "Sharia Féin" white replacement shite

@conalllynch7840 Ай бұрын

Before I say anything else, this is a very well researched and presented video so thank you! You will for sure get some comments about Aontú and Mícheál Matrin but don't feel bad about it, 99% of your pronunciations are spot on! A bit more context on the Green's collapse. The junior coalition parties in past governments have always bared the brunt of the blame for government failures. The Progressive Democrats in the 90s, the greens previously in the 00s and Labour in the 2010s all suffered major losses or complete wipeouts after their term in government. The greens were attacked extra hard for (especially) the rise in fuel prices following the Ukraine War and also from farming groups resisting decarbonisation (over 40% of Ireland's emissions are from agriculture). While I can't say I'm happy with the results, our voting system truly is incredible and I wish more countries implemented it. Incredibly, the Fianna Fáil governments in the 50s and 60s tried numerous times to switch to FPTP as they were the dominant party at the time and intended to stay there. The closest vote was in 1958 when the motion was narrowly defeated with 51.79% voting No and we are all glad that didn't happen! And just for future reference, the head of government of Ireland isn't called the "Prime Minister", similar to Germany, they're called the Taoiseach (Tee-Shock). The closest equivalent in English would be "Chieftain" but it would very uncommon to use the English name. The Deputy PM equivalent is called the Táiniste, who was Mícheál Martin prior to the election.

@galaxyred7 Ай бұрын

Ah yes the same parties in power even though this country is in shambles Ireland is fucked 💀

@socire72 Ай бұрын

Fine Gael and Fianna Fail for 90 years but its Sinn Fein’s fault

@RazorMouth Ай бұрын

Nahhh about 60 to 70 percent of the population are doing well that's exactly why we got the same again. The wealth divide here is unbelievably obvious.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

@@RazorMouth In what country is wealth divide NOT obvious? The reason we have had stable government in Ireland is because a sufficient proportion of the population is doing ok. This is NOT to say that there aren't many ongoing issues that need to be tackled, and that all the people who vote mainstream parties are totally happy with what goes on. A genuine alternative has to be presented to attract support from FF/FG etc.

@cubethelad8394 Ай бұрын

I'm absolutely pro SF and against FF and FG, but to act like they've done a terrible job is also just wrong. We were a 3rd world country in the 80's, things could be better, but the vast majority do live decent lives as it is.

@RazorMouth Ай бұрын

@cubethelad8394 the people that don't own homes, live with Ma and Da or pay high rents didn't even come out to vote and then they whinge 🤣

@paddygallery8891 Ай бұрын

This was a 2 way race 👍🏻 FF and FG are essentially the same party in 2024

@maureenmartin4730 Ай бұрын

TG … USA should learn from this

@johnrodgers2018 Ай бұрын

Good video, it is fair to say there has been an overall slight move to the centre in political ideology. With more centrist parties making gains

@RuB0t Ай бұрын

You know what, this is the first video I've seen covering Irish politics where nearly all pronunciations were spot on. Fair play!

@cormacruane8830 Ай бұрын

I'd love a video on different systems of political finance in the EU. Similarities and differences and current EU laws.

@CARL_093 Ай бұрын

thanks eu made simple

@DimitrisParitshs Ай бұрын

i really love their voting system , it makes for a system where your vote doesnt feel like its getting wasted yyou should def make a video about it, great video again

@Tenc1235 Ай бұрын

3:11 yes I am interested !

@NikCan66 Ай бұрын

PR-STV voting system shows up the fair reflection of the electorate

@ironfromicey8700 Ай бұрын

Nord ireland should rejoin

@noah_gaming_yt5225 Ай бұрын

@markpower9081 29 күн бұрын

It can do that whenever it wants.

@punishedpinecone4772 Ай бұрын

Single transferable vote with electorates is NOT proportional representation. I'm Australian and this system was created to keep the minor parties out of the race.

@eoinh Ай бұрын

It's literally called PR-STV in Ireland. There are multiple flavours of proportional representation

@NiallMcEvoy05 Ай бұрын

Dunno man, First past the post seems to be doing the same thing in the UK, I guess it depends on each country.

@Edmuresrampantmanhood-dp3jd 29 күн бұрын

@@eoinh If it was actually proportional Sinn Fein would have had the plurality of seats in the last election and would have had less seats that Fine Gael in this election. It isn't proportional, it's better at representing minor parties than the US and UK system but that doesn't mean proportional.

@eoinh 29 күн бұрын

@@punishedpinecone4772 I was only pointing out that PR is the actual name for the system. You're right that it's not 100% proportional but it's impossible to be that without completely doing away with the constituencies and local representation. Even then, PR-STV in particular is a very good system that optimises for voter satisfaction averaged across the entire base, not just the winners like in FPTP, and is typically accurate to within a percent or so. Sinn Féin would have had a plurality if they'd fielded enough candidates in 2020, no voting system can account for that kind of mistake

@VillaDish Ай бұрын

It would have been good to mention Harris’s scandal which likely had to do with them losing first spot.

@CKW10001 Ай бұрын

FG have ego's bigger than the country of Ireland and the polls were wrong. They support base is dropping and they were never in contention for the most seats and FF ground game is stronger and better. Therefore I couldn't believe the polls as FF have topped the outcome from 2020 GE and the 2023 Local elections, to now the 2024 GE. We would have to go back to 2016 for FG to win any election!

@benfarmer-webb1016 Ай бұрын

As a non-Irish person, please do explain the scandal

@CKW10001 Ай бұрын

@benfarmer-webb1016 he basically ignored the concerns of a carer and was a d1ck about it.

@jackcl007 Ай бұрын

@@benfarmer-webb1016One of the many scandals would be Simon Harris endorsing a fellow Fine Gael candidate for my local area, Who brutally beat a man in the street after a night out and he also sexually assaulted his college roommate by shoving a twix chocolate bar up his ass. Irish politics are a joke.

@qo92 Ай бұрын

@@benfarmer-webb1016 It was a nothing burger.

@jeroenimus7528 Ай бұрын

Maybe make a series on all the different electoral systems in the EU? It'd be a mammoth task but afterwards you could easily refer to the ones appropriate to the current topic.

@Optimise247 Ай бұрын

The independents aren't a group, and can't be considered a group. There are 16 individuals that got one seat each, no group of 16

@kierank01 Ай бұрын

I was disappointed by the result, none of the 5 candidates that I voted for were elected (same as 2020) but satisfied that my vote did not transfer to anyone that I didn't want elected

@garethbrown9191 Ай бұрын

Ireland's neutrality should never be compromised by the EU. Ireland (Eire) should be able to close their borders. Also why independents as a group? Independents are exactly that, independent from a party and each other.

@komodosp Ай бұрын

Fianna Fáil's lead may seem significant now, but there was a time that'd have been considered a disastrous result for them! Up till recently, either they or Fine Gael would get close to 50% of the seats and only need a few independents or another small party to form a government, it'd have been unthinkable that the two would go in together!

@slay7584 Ай бұрын

almost 2 minutes of an ad in a 10 minute video is outrageous

@micklenier6152 Ай бұрын

have you ever done sponsorship deal? usually at least 1 minute sponsorship is the minimum to fulfil the deal requirements (this one is about 1:20, not almost 2 minutes). At least it's not an "AI" generative content sponsorship ffs. also it's about 15% of skippable adtime, it's not far off what YT forces you today.

@slay7584 Ай бұрын

@@micklenier6152🤓☝️

@ecurewitz Ай бұрын

I just skipped right past it

@WTFRussia1 Ай бұрын

You know you can just skip past it right?

@RonocHK Ай бұрын

Just skip it

@InterrogatorchaplainAsmodai Ай бұрын

The thing here in ireland is that there has never been a government that did not involve fianna fail and fianna Gael. Partly due to there experience in governance they usually get reelected, however hereditary voting is also common, that and people here either love or hate sinn fein.

@nif977 Ай бұрын

Hereditary voting does exist but it's not common anymore.

@richardlionheart5161 29 күн бұрын

How is immigration going in Ireland? I heard mass immigration isn't going so well for Ireland

@nif977 29 күн бұрын

@@richardlionheart5161 If you got your information from places other than the echo chambers, you're in you'd find out Ireland don't have mass immigration.

@colinsmith1288 Ай бұрын

Sinn fein are not fit to govern.A united lreland can only come from the current government.

@Joseph13163 Ай бұрын

Yes an united ireland is not dependent on Sinn Fein not even close

@msdm83 Ай бұрын

It wasn't close because Fine Gael and Finna Fail Are now twin party. There's little between them policy wise and it was assumed they would form a government together.

@lukelz 28 күн бұрын

Wouldn’t have spoken about the independents as a “group”, they might make up a significant total but they are entirely independent, and for the purpose of parties should realistically be shown as single members. SD and Labour discussion would have been more interesting to see!

@Mihkyyy Ай бұрын

Yes plz, a video on the voting system, can it be counted on paper?

@diarmuidbuckley6638 Ай бұрын

yes as you can see in the video

@caoimhec7697 Ай бұрын

Another 5 years of FF/FG, another 5 years of Von der Leyen. Ireland and Europe are finished.

@dianamaioru497 Ай бұрын

Lol Russian drama bot much?

@earthappel1232 Ай бұрын

@@dianamaioru497 ah yes the: everyone who disagrees with me is a russian bot mentality

@theo_2949 Ай бұрын

Well not finished But I'd expect things to stagnate in any major progress and Housing Crisis to continue but not exactly finished. I don't understand how people don't feel like their support for them has be mistrusted as we have huge mismanages on their part and just no accountability for them

@cormacmacaongusa Ай бұрын

Fearmongering. The country is not finished, this is what you like to push upon people because it reinforces a right wing movement

@abcogien 21 сағат бұрын

@@dianamaioru497 I've heard that ukraine is running out of soldiers, if that's helpful...

@JimmyOhAnnrachain-ot5md Ай бұрын

What surprised me was how much it looked like on social media and Tiktok that Ireland would vote far right and it really didn't

@Oakeedokee7 Ай бұрын

The far-right are a complete joke to most people here. They all spout the same racist talking points imported from the States, and seemingly forgot completely about the struggle of Irish people abroad. It just feels wrong for Irish people to be hostile towards immigration, given we did it for centuries and got discriminated against for being "white n words" in America post-Famine and most being labelled as "terrorists" in the UK at the height of the Troubles. That said, with the far-right, I think we must always remain vigilant. Fight it in the ballot box, and don't let hatred win. While the parties and the eejits in that community are a shambles, they still have done real damage to Ireland in recent years.

@caoimhec7697 Ай бұрын

Amazing how quickly people forgot the state sponsored violence against protestors.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

Most older people, people with busy lives, and people who are basically happy with their situation tend not to engage in social media. Therefore, you get an imbalance in what you see online with an echo chamber of mainly right-wing posters feeding on themselves. Immigration is certainly an issue for people, but party canvassers and election exit polls showed that it was not a PRIORITY issue for most people. Similarly, if you were to believe what you see online, you would imagine that most Irish people are anti-EU!! A relatively small number of people can make a lot of noise.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

@Optimise247 Ай бұрын

I've hung around some far right groups, in an attempt to educate or troll them. It turns out a lot of the Irish far right online are British or American and not Irish. That's quite ironic when you realise that the chant of the right in Ireland was "Brits out" until maybe 5 years ago. The far right used to want to remove all British people from Ireland, now they are posting about how Britain and Ireland are stronger together. It's bots or foreign interference doing it. There was also a lot of misunderstanding and confusion going on with them not understanding how to vote, their leaders were saying to only put 1 or 2 on your vote and to not order everyone in order of preference. But with the way voting in Ireland works if your candidate is eliminated your vote moves to the next numbered candidate. So a lot of them only used half or even 1/4 or 1/5 of their vote

@mmcworldbuilding5994 Ай бұрын

Apart from giant ad and small mispronunciations, great video

@kellydev Ай бұрын

Ireland has full employment, yes there's a housing crisis but that's being addressed & globally housing is a problem ... SF went down in the polls because people don't trust them, plus they've had a few in-house scandals , all we have to do is look at northern Ireland to see how little SF has done there , they've been asked numerous times to present a budget showing how they'd pay for all these changes they keep going on about . The majority of people do not want a SF Govt , if they did SF would have won the election outright.

@geraldinedonoghue7429 Ай бұрын

The same goes for FF and FG. No party got enough votes to go into Government on their own.

@canavar1435 Ай бұрын

Global housing problems are not an excuse for Irelands housing crisis. And the later is not being properly adressed. The chronies in government want a housing shortage to keep values of their own portfolio high and eventually develop rental property to exploit us even more. Ireland has such low population and a functional building sector, there is no need for this artificial crisis. Details of which lay in planning regulation and finance.

@toyotaprius79 Ай бұрын

You missed out on the months of boosted algorithms spreading "Sharia Féin" torrents coming from British/Yank aligned fascists? No wonder why voter turn out was a record low

@toyotaprius79 Ай бұрын

@@geraldinedonoghue7429shhh, don't burst their bubble

@LookandReport Ай бұрын

looking at ni is not a wise desition as it's spending power is mostly controlled by the uk both the conservatives and labour are anti sf they do not give ni the funds it needs to flourish the barely give it enough to survive in England Westminster has spent over a decade strangling the resources of local government sf got the second most seats and could form a gov with ff and greens (they will not) they did not stand in enough seats to win outright many people do not vote sf due to the historical links to the ira despite agreeing politically this means when sd pbp and labour are excluded not all the votes go to sf which hurts there seat numbers (and sf is excluded earlier then it otherwise would be) ff and fg combined are not enough to form a gov and have not been since the 2016 election and neither has had enough on there own since the 1987 election (37 years ago)

@JohnBradley-v7k Ай бұрын

I live in Ireland and what happened was the 2 main party's joined together again just like they did 5 years ago. The damage these 2 party's have done is incredible but they still got in again by joining together. Another 5 years of total incompetence coming with zero accountability..

@andrecarvalho1339 Ай бұрын

I am Portuguese, and a lot of people here are emigrating there, so we have the idea that things are well there. What has been going wrong?

@alanphelan9108 Ай бұрын

@@andrecarvalho1339 financially Ireland is doing extremely well. The immigration, housing and healthcare are being abused beyond repair.

@michaelogrady1002 Ай бұрын

Under this Government Ireland has recorded budget surplus in recent years,unemployment is 4.5%,the debt to gdp ratio is 44%,its sovereign debt rating is ''AA",yield on government debt is 2.35% please explain the damage they have done!

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

The election IS the accountability, and the electorate's views are essentially unchanged.

@bepsi6204 Ай бұрын

@@michaelogrady1002no point being so rich if we all can't afford a gaff

@gerardd2231 Ай бұрын

Ireland is fucked.

@cormacmacaongusa Ай бұрын

Ireland is fine

@aaronkeane4914 Ай бұрын

“Centre-right”. They may have been 15 years ago but drifted heavily left, the only thing making them look right is how far left the rest of them are

@jamesoregan2705 Ай бұрын

Taoiseach not Prime Minister...

@HopefullResistance Ай бұрын

Great video , but you only highlight SF elected officials' negative and disgusting behaviour, nothing on the 2 outgoing parties of FF and FG massive over spending on assylum seeker housing , national children's hospital at around 3odd billion euro, 1.5 million on a security hut , 360k on a bike shed not to mention almost 2 million on printer's. You'll also find one of the outgoing parties' leaders was arrested on firearm smuggling, so their not without sin, That's just the tip of the list.

@EUMadeSimple Ай бұрын

Fair enough . Thanks for pointing it out

@HopefullResistance Ай бұрын

@@EUMadeSimple I'm no SF supporter by any means but another point I would make is that non of them are right wing political parties in my honest opinion they are as woke left as one can get and all are well in with the elite EU commission and will approve an and all legislation that the EU want passed .just have a look back on the major referendums and how much irish laws are controlled by the EU. Its a good video all the same 👍

@socire72 Ай бұрын

@@HopefullResistanceEverything you said points to all of them being right wing

@HopefullResistance Ай бұрын

@@socire72 well that maybe so , but watch a bit of the rte news in ireland the view on right wing parties are way different.

@drachna Ай бұрын

@@socire72 What's right wing depends heavily on where you're standing. FG and FF are liberal parties with some slightly more left wing views - for example, in Ireland, the cost of a third level education is fixed at 2000 euro a year, and the cost of public transport is capped at about 15 euro a week if you have a transport card and are under 25. We have a mixed public and private healthcare system, where everything is free and high quality, but you'll be waiting a lot longer if you don't have health insurance. We're a very pro business country and have a low corporation tax rate, but have a progressive income tax rate that's near 50% if you earn over 70 grand a year. All of our mainstream political parties are pro Palestine, and condemn the conflict in the strongest terms - and at the same time we have incredibly close relations with the US. We also have one of the highest home ownership rates in the world, and people expect to buy, not rent, which has made our housing crisis worse than most. For a lot of people we strike a great balance in theory, but not in execution, as the quality of our public services could be better. The government is also known for spending more than it has to, for example, we have one of the most expensive hospitals in the world being built at the moment, and it's about 4 times over budget. Most parties in Ireland are also very socially left wing. So yeah, from a socialist perspective, or a more progressive one, they're right wing parties economically, and probably don't go far enough socially in some areas. But to any conservatives or Republicans in the American sense, our politics are way too progressive, we tax too much and our welfare state is too big.

@phylk4683 Ай бұрын

@EUMadeSimple - your discount for Incogni is only for US, UK, Swiss and Canadian residents only. 🤷 For an infolette on Irelands elections within the EU why aren’t you giving the residents of Ireland the discount too? Ireland is in the EU why is UK getting the opportunity to avail of your discount?

@gsullivan3262 Ай бұрын

I was wondering what happened to the Independents, the most important of them all.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

How do you mean 'the most important of them all'?

@brianbanfield5397 Ай бұрын

Many thanks for producing this excellent video on the recent Irish general election. Because we have several political parties in Ireland the Proportional Representation system (or “PR” as it is usually called) gives a result that accurately represents what the people want, although it is more complicated than a first-past-the post system. It would be very helpful to have a separate video on this. There are a number of what I think are rather strange comments here. These are my responses: (1) Ireland is one of the best democracies in the world. If the same parties win all the time it is because a majority of our citizens (or at least those who vote) freely and secretly made that choice at the polling stations. And I should say, the vast majority of us in Ireland are intelligent and well educated. If a voter gives number one to a party it is because they are satisfied with their performance in government. (2) There are no “clubs” involved. Two parties will come together to form a coalition only if it suits there political agendas. But any party is free to reject an approach from another party. This is all part of democracy. In addition, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are totally separate and independent parties. If either had got the required number of seats they would have formed a government by themselves. (3) Our elections are very well run. Nobody should say they are “rigged” unless they have strong supporting evidence. (4) All of the political parties in Ireland would have many supporters who would like to see re-unification. But with about 900,000 people in Northern Ireland who want to remain part of the UK, I don’t think this is going to happen any time soon. If it happens it must be on a peaceful basis and have very strong support on both sides of the border. The real challenge is to make the Republic of Ireland such an attractive place to live that the vast majority of Northern Ireland citizens will want to be part of a united Ireland. Personally I don’t expect to see this happen during my lifetime.

@drachna Ай бұрын

True on all four counts. It is interesting to see that the Greens collapsed though, given that they more or less delivered on all of their promises over the last four years.

@jeroen857 28 күн бұрын

a video about elections would be nice

@UltanCoyle Ай бұрын

FF and FG will share the the Prime Ministership so Simon Harris will most likly be Taoiseach again. Also, Malta uses the single transferable vote system.

@P5YCHO1192 Ай бұрын

I really would like to see Sinn Fein take the reins and see what they can do for the country. I feel like reunification isn't important right now, what we seriously need is a strong hand to deal with the housing crisis, and securing a future for the generation that has been, so far, royally screwed by past governments.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

What exactly do you mean by a 'strong hand'? Do you mean a 'temporary' suspension of legal rights?

@Paul-d6h9p Ай бұрын

Shinners! No way!

@karencahill3552 29 күн бұрын

Well your name says it all ........sinn fein marylou mcmuslim are you for real .....

@phylk4683 Ай бұрын

@EUMadeSimple - NiallMcEvoy05 didn’t want us Irish correcting you on the words Prime Minister because he wants us to just blend in. The thing is Ireland doesn’t have a Prime Minister we have a High Chieftain who goes by the name Taoiseach pronounced in English as Tee-Shock … we also have a Tánaiste (pronounced in English as Tawn-ish-tah) who is the heir/second in command to the High Chieftain/High King of Ireland. The difference is the cultural reference… UK has a Prime Minister under a King while Ireland has a Taoiseach who is High Chieftain/King of Ireland. It’s very important differences.

@malik250988 Ай бұрын

It was neither crazy nor close😊

@gabrielflaubert5881 28 күн бұрын

Of course we want a video on STV voting system, it's such a bad-explained topic in videos around KZbin pretending to describe it

@eddavitt6359 Ай бұрын

Nice video, and you really have to be commended on doing so well on pronouncing the party names! I would say that the Independents supporting FF/FG is much more likely than Labour or any other parties supporting - indeed it looks like that is now all but confirmed.

@conormckinley9420 Ай бұрын

Good pronounciation! Although there were a few errors: fianna fail is just pronounced as - fe-na-fall. Fine gael is - fin-gale. And micheál martin's name is - me-hall martin. Other than that very good!

@Mickmc_66 Ай бұрын

O shut up you perfect person 😂😂😂

@smlz9721 Ай бұрын

I'd say fee-na gale

@conormckinley9420 Ай бұрын

@@smlz9721Im from Ulster and thats how I've always heard people say it. Maybe its a dialect thing.

@komodosp Ай бұрын

Finneh Gael, though I have heard (Irish) people calling them Fine Gael as in the English pronunciation of "fine"

@smlz9721 Ай бұрын

@@komodosp no way you've heard irish people say "fine" gael 💀

@Winner8501 Ай бұрын

Sure, make a video on STV and go very in-depth, as it is one of the most interesting and arguable the best system if you want both more or less proportional representation and locally-elected MPs. Too bad the UK is stuck with its insane FPTP, it could do a lot of good there.

@komodosp Ай бұрын

Aontú is pronounced closer to "Ain too" rather than "Unto"

@MrEnterainment Ай бұрын

Good video, but our head of government is the 'Taoiseach' and not 'Prime minister'.

@Carlos15Romero21 Ай бұрын

Hey guys! Ik you all are very busy with making EU-style content, but have you ever considered making a UN Made Simple channel?

@squidking191 Ай бұрын

The leader is called the taoiseach not the prime minister.

@zaineoakley5555 Ай бұрын

One of the only benefits of the FPTP system the uk used

@EarthKuma Ай бұрын

It is disappointing result, it is basically more of the same. I wish that things would have changed a bit. FF and FG will probably form a party again.

@docopoper Ай бұрын

It is pretty crazy how we have a voting system that empowers smaller parties so much and yet we've had either FF or FG in power for over 92 years.

@EarthKuma Ай бұрын

@docopoper yeah but the bigger parties always has more power and money to spend.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

@@docopoper Because FF/FG have represented the views of the majority of the population in that time. The rise of Sinn Féin has shown that change is possible.

@zynel413 Ай бұрын

@@docopoper the main issue is voter turnout is horrifingly low, especially amongst younger voters who would most likely vote for a third party. The general voting base in Ireland is 35+, house owning people who wouldnt benefit from a more radical change to a left wing government. And don't get me wrong, they certainly have a right to have that opinion and vote accordingly, but it's frustrating to see so many younger voters disillusioned or uneducated on national politics, yet complain about how expensive housing is, or how terrible the healthcare is etc etc. its even worse because of how fair and democratic our PR-STV system is!!! You can win an election by the smallest margin of votes because of how small the country is, but most just dont really care about politics.

@dianamaioru497 Ай бұрын

Housing is an issue everywhere and Ireland is no different. Most people voted for the two main centrist parties because they are doing a good job. The economy is booming and they are building houses as fast as possible within the constraints of the system...planning and a shortage of builders. The Irish like to complain and usually those who have never lived abroad to be able to compare. Ireland is well run and trying to address the issues that face every country as best it can...homelessness, healthcare and poverty.

@Kfend19 Ай бұрын

I think discussing the historic low turnout (lowest in 100 years) would have added to the video, especially when you see how turnout varies between age groups. Older people 65+ outvoted the 18-35 by almost double. The older generation overwhelmingly vote FF FG whereas the younger generation vote SF/ centre left. The reason we have the current Dáil is that younger people didn't vote! SF also failed to show how an alternative government was possible, after FF FG ruled out working with SF. Also small gripe, but we don't have a prime minister, we have a Taoiseach (pronounced Tee-shock).

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

Genuine question. Why do you think that the section of the Irish population who theoretically have the most to gain from change had such a poor turnout?

@Kfend19 Ай бұрын

@@qcsorter4626 unclear who the alternative government in waiting was, and the fact the economy is booming. We also don't have postal or early voting in Ireland and it's not too easy to change your constituency, with most young people working or away for college in Dublin (where most aren't registered to vote).

@PB111627 Ай бұрын

@@JT-xh9evWell they get what they did not vote for!

@drachna Ай бұрын

@@PB111627 That's the great thing about PRSTV. You get exactly what you vote for. If everyone voted, we would have a very different government, but they don't, so we won't.

@fourlights Ай бұрын

@Kfend19 Ireland has a prime minister, this is 100% a fact. Fancy words or not, in English and the literal role is prime minister and the "dail" is a parliament.

@historicallyaccurate7808 Ай бұрын

Idk much about Irish politics, but why not have a Finne Gael, Finne Fial, Green, and Auntu coalition? Sure it’d be slim, but it seems to be a fairly centrist grouping

@markpower9081 29 күн бұрын

They don't want a slim coalition, it gives too much power to individual TDs. The Green TD is not interested. Aontu, I would think, are more hassle to FF/FG than their two seats would be worth. FF and FG would prefer Labour ,who'd bring 11 seats and pragmatism (if you like them)/pliability (if you don't like them). However Labour aren't interested. They will get the numbers through independents, man of whom are former members of the FF and FG anyway, and who can be bought off with local pork barrel, which is a lower price than ideology. It will create a right/left divide in the Irish parliament for the first time.

@MarkLeanings Ай бұрын

Top marks for pronunciation of the party names. I've heard some absolute butcherings coming from as close as the UK!

@jamescannon5895 Ай бұрын

Well I mean if we’re being pedantic he spelled and pronounced Aontú wrong, Fine Gael is pronounced as fih-ne Gael and Mícheál Martin’s name is pronounced Me-hawl, not Michael

@pogonpop9575 Ай бұрын

In 2:16 there is a mistake with the party-bubbles. Sinn Fein and Fianna Fein bubbles are switched. Great video though

@dddz961 Ай бұрын

He also misspelled Aontú at 6:26.

@matthewlynch9331 Ай бұрын

A video on PR-STV would be great! Let me know if you do choose to this and I can send you some academic papers recommended by proffesiors (I study political science in Dublin)

@Hemalkukurkure Ай бұрын

Yes we need a video on pr please

@TheIrishBosnian Ай бұрын

As an Irishman, we put the same shit in, so we get the same shit out. Another 5 years of struggle it is. Unfortunately, its now still a country for the rich or old, and not for the young or poor. The rich and old want to keep their investment, and the young and poor want ro achieve one. Young and lower class people mostly vote for Sinn. Old and upper class vote for Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. Young people don't vote. Old people do. So that what we get. We also have too many left party's, we're divided. We need to work together, but we're not. We had to vote SF for change. I don't get why people voted other left parties. It will do nothing. It did nothing.

@MichaelSr-sp5pw Ай бұрын

Move to the US. It’s always been the right move

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

You mean that sections of the population vote for parties who most represent their views? I would have thought that that was universal?

@ALavin-en1kr Ай бұрын

If you couldn’t complain what else would you find to do? Search a little, there is a lot out there.

@washyourmouthoutwithpope1334 27 күн бұрын

if only we had some kind of electoral system where we don't have to feel pressured to just vote for the one party that's the most likely to win... oh wait

@Godophugawa Ай бұрын

"Fee-enna fall" haha

@iska. Ай бұрын

You should really make a video about Icelands parlimentary elections, the parties that got 1st and third place are likely to form a government and they are very pro EU and want a referendum on joining.

@josephmartin1543 Ай бұрын

Exactly! Iceland should have had a EU Referendum years ago, they are Europe ! In my opinion they must control their own Borders, or it will never work . Iceland can not be forced to accept full neighborhoods full on men dress like imams and woman covered head to toe and talking about sharia Law and unelected imams . That insult should be always rejected .

@blacklistnr1 Ай бұрын

Interesting how coalition to 51% is the first thing on everyone's mind. I think each seat should be given to people who can understand, debate and choose the law themselves, not by coalition or other influences. Otherwise I don't see the point of having multiple seats per party.. the result is equivalent to sending one representative from each party (whose vote is worth X points).

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

And who decides who should get the seats?

@Optimise247 Ай бұрын

Everyone in the Dáil (parliament) has an equal vote and can propose legislation and amendments.

@mazi-uk Ай бұрын

i'm interested in an explnation of the voting system in Ireland in another video....please do one explaining this.

@aravinz_hd Ай бұрын

please make a video about the irish electoral system or bettter take a look on electoral systems in the EU as a whole apart from the European Parliament.

@bobolow221 Ай бұрын

Not exactly video related but I need EUmadesimple to make a video on an optimistic Europe. I have just been depressed about how bleak Europes future is in my eyes and dont really see a positive future. We have basically lost every industry that we were good at to the US and China. We have no tech companies in fact the majority of the big industries in europe are just American companies setting up operations in the EU. We dont really create anything example being Germany leading solar pannel production until China started making them and completely undercut and collapsed its whole industry. All while having no natural resouces or rare earth materials which will dominate for the next 100 years probably. The disaster of intigrating immigrants and the rise of far right parties because of it, yet still knowing due to our birthrate we actually need more immigrants to come not less all while dealing with the continentel wide housing & cost of living crisis. In a time we need to become closer and a stonger union with Russia looming over us we are becoming more fragmented every year, with the UK leaving & constant infighting within countries like Catalonia wanting to seperate from Spain. This is truely our weakist moment in decades. Like is Europe just fucked should I just go off to Australia and try there. It just feels like Europe was asleep at the wheel for too long and relied on the US. This will sadly take decades to fix.

@SPerill Ай бұрын

You forgot to mention Fine Gael (FG) having similar controversies surrounding their candidates such as John McGahon's assault and TD Hildegarde Naughton's support of ex-FG councillor Patsy O’Brien after allegedly knowing about his pornographic texts to a staffer. There was also the disastrous Kanturk incident when Taoiseach Simon Harris made a dog's dinner of speaking to a member of the public who confronted him on his party's stance on carer supports. This incident showed Harris up for the disingenuous toad that he is under all the spin. Needs more research.

@parkiiiiiiii Ай бұрын

these parties are all fairly left wing.

@rxt744 Ай бұрын

I live here in Ireland (and voted in this and the last general election). I am both disappointed and disillusioned in this general election's results in bringing back the two main parties that did absolutely nothing to address the pains and issues of the Irish public and the country. They are more interested in a Sovereign Fund (for personal gains and for the 1% wealthy cronies) than in using the current windfall surplus tax money (before it drys up) to invest in infrastructure and housing (both public and low-income/affordable housing) that the country desparately needs. These two parties are about to roll back any "green" initiatives and positive moves made recently by the country in favour of inefficient and eco-unfriendly farmer demands, continue to ignore the blight of the housing shortage and lack of affordable housing, ignore and fudge on EuroZone and EU Greenhouse Targets, ignore the problems regarding the lack of infrastructure and the broken down public/quasi-state owned utilies (like Irish Water), ignore the need for reform in taxation and tax collection (for a fairer system), ignore the problems and issues with central controlled government from Dublin not meeting the needs of local government (priorities and funding), and will focus all their useless "waste of space" in Dublin making the 1% richer (along with themselves) at the expense of the few that actually pay taxes (unless everyone becomes self-employed to pay less taxes). It's going to be another five years of the "same old same" (lots of talking and no useful action)... with worse conditions coming soon for the average Irish person as Trump's America kills Ireland's golden goose of corporate tax evasion for multi-national corporations (the root of Ireland's Leprechaun Economics and bogus GDP figures, as well as the windfall surplus taxes - a gift from a recent ECJ ruling against the government on collecting taxes from tax evading multi-national corporations), and turning a blind eye to a closer and more effective cooperation in collective defense with Europe (with Russia and China looking at Ireland in the same way as invading Vikings did when raping and pillaging Ireland in the far past). Disappointing....

@Fly_Slo Ай бұрын

People might not like the right wing parties but they always know the left especially w unmitigated immigration is multitudes worse. Therefore it's what you get. The same happened in Britain, conservative labour globalists come in instead of liberal conservative globalists, and both parties revert to the norm and within 6 Mos labour is - 40.only left wing parties In Europe worth a damn right now is the Scandinavian ones because they are better on immigration

@nif977 Ай бұрын

😃😃😃😃😃

@King_Cova Ай бұрын

Mee-hal not Michael 😂

@vladoo1142 Ай бұрын

Where are you from?

@smartviewinfo Ай бұрын

3 days gone still we don't know the results..

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

Imagine that!

@danimears5398 Ай бұрын

So what does this mean for Ireland?

@Optimise247 Ай бұрын

Things stay the same

@TomásÓCadhla Ай бұрын

Martin's name is pronounced like MEE-hawl, not Michael

@MichaelSr-sp5pw Ай бұрын

60000 people know this

@cormacmacaongusa Ай бұрын

@@MichaelSr-sp5pweveryone in Ireland knows this

@stephenhall3515 Ай бұрын

This is an advert dressed up as current topic and has a click bait title. The narrator has an inconsistent accent (mainly US) and exhibits a ridiculously superficial knowledge of his topic of pontification. What has to be understood about the Rep of Ireland version is PR is that it is anti-democratic insofar as votes can b shifted to what the voter wanted because the transferable vote system does not have choice and democracy as its primary aim. The primary aim is to fill seats and if parties or independent candidates do not stand in a given constituency there is no option for what is called a "first preference vote" being an only preference. The vote is just directed elsewhere in a welter of 'horse-trading' and behind the scenes persuasion. Some parties and candidates "of principle" do not stand in certain constituencies because probable outcomes are known we Irish have, sadly, failed to develop dynamic governance. By becoming the Irish Free State in 1922 we became a faux nation no longer under the British crown yet remained dependent upon British trade and defence. A new president occupied a medium sized palace in Dublin and presidents were chosen from the ranks of the political elite. From 1939 to 1945, World War 2 was called 'The Emergency' and the Free State was known as Eire. Irish citizens were supposed to be neutral but because so many lived in Britain or the 6 counties of Northern Ireland = UK, the war against Hitler comprised thousands of Irish. Many of these were punished in petty ways by PM then president Eamon DeValera (US born to an Irish mother and Spanish/Cuban father) for "deserting Ireland" but was persuaded to drop the idea. In effect, Eire under DeValera was a dictatorship with censorship of the press, which did not apply in the UK. Men and women traveled to N.Ireland for work during two bad harvest years. Eire was due to become the Rep of Ireland in 1947 but could not organize currency and official papers in time so these were made in the UK and the Rep of Ireland came into being in April 1949. Eire had withdrawn from the Commonwealth [then called the British Commonwealth] in 1948 but had more direct ties to the UK than when a part of it. In 1973 it joined the EEC (backed by a financial safety net by the UK) on the same day as the UK and Denmark. The EEC became the EU and ROI became obedient to Brussels. It adopted the € currency and still holds the record in EU awards of money. That said, the apparently thriving economy was on paper and the 2008 crash led to austerity being imposed. Much remains yet the mechanism of government is, per capita, higher than that of the USA and staple resources such as electricity, gas, oil product and supply lines stand at 96% from or via the UK, with Norway in partnership in renewables and gas [Q3 2024]. The election referred to here will probably renew a FF-FG coalition with the requisite seats coming from independents and/or similarly conservative small parties. In the last parliament (Dail) the Green Party was the "glue" and has been reduced to a single seat in 2024. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were opposed parties in the brief civil war of 1922 and the latter grew out of the original Sinn Fein nationalist party at that time. Modern SF is centre left in N.Ireland but lost its way in ROI due to poor leadership, a lack of practical policies and scandals involving due diligence of party workers. A quirk of our system is that high vote parties are not obliged to even talk to one of the three in the last elections (in this case Sinn Fein), thereby automatically keeping high scoring politicians out of office and consigned to opposition. This does not apply in other EU coalitions and is further evidence of a lack of democracy. Were ROI to be applying for EU membership now (not backed by a bigger player as in 1973) it would fail on the lack of an acceptable form of democracy and and on two other grounds. Given the pattern of so many young people not even bothering to apply for tertiary education in ROI because it is too expensive in several ways (they apply direct to the UK, parts of Europe and the Gulf) and young families quitting our shores to stand any chance of home ownership, the accrued impact on Irish demography will cause a crisis in the political system before the next Dail runs its designated course.

@qcsorter4626 Ай бұрын

Wow! That was some read! You predict ' a crisis in the political system before the next Dail runs its designated course.' How do you think it will manifest itself?