DO WE EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN THE IRISH ELECTION?

Irish voters

WTF? How many political parties do you need? Here in the good ole USA we only have two shades of shit to tell apart, but the Irish have God alone knows how many.

One advantage of a two-party system is you can usually tell which side has won. But in Ireland that can be extremely tricky, as we see with the present election where, according to an exit poll, the three main parties got 67% of the vote between them, while lots of other parties and "independents" got the other 33%.

Then there's the Irish electoral system, where you don't just vote for one candidate, but list several candidates on the ballot paper in your order of preference. Also, each voting area has several winning candidates FFS!

Picture of the last 
known Gaelic speaker.

The outcome of this is that the parties all blend together in terms of policy and image and constantly try to steal each other's voters and hang onto their own. This is also why they all have names that sound alike and are in a foreign European language (Gaelic) that no one speaks anymore.

According to the exit poll, the "winner" (LOL) was Fine Gael (fee-na gale), which got 22.4% of first preference votes, closely followed by Sinn Féin (shin fain) with 22.3% and Fianna Fáil  with 22.2% (fee-ana foil). 

Why not just have one big bullshitty centre left-right party called Sinn Fianna Gael? What difference would it make, as whoever wins is just going to do whatever the EU tells them to do anyway, like take in more migrants.

Irish ballot paper

There was one party opposing the EU and continued replacement of a now clearly degenerate White population with Third Worlders, but I don't think they ever got a mention in the media. Their vote count is small and hard to find, probably less than 1%. Irish people just don't give a fuck. 

According to the exit poll the Green Party got 7.9% of first preference votes, followed by Labour (4.6%), Social Democrats (3.4%), and Solidarity People Before Profit (2.8%). They all sound like crappy left-wing parties that will do fuck-all and go nowhere. I think that leaves 14.4%, most of which went to Independents.

It's not yet known how these stats will stack up in terms of actual Members of the Irish Parliament (which has some stupid Gaelic name which I have zero interest in using). But it looks like a messy coalition is on the way, which is probably the best result for Ireland's EU masters, who like their subject provinces to be weak and obedient.

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