BOF Posted February 26, 2011 Moderator Share Posted February 26, 2011 Even though their numbers are way down, it still baffles me that nearly 1 in 6 people still voted for those bastards. I can only deduce that, statistically, (at least) 1 in 6 people are idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 and most of them are from the country as think they will win only 1 seat in Dublin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Nice to see a lowry get back in huh ..huh caught red handed but its ok hes a nice guy FFs a massive crook who hasn't quite overseen all the factory's in thurles shut yet dew valley meats is still on the go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has said he will try to re-negotiate the terms of the 85bn-euro (£72bn) bail-out. Where do Irish Labour stand on this? If they're not keen on telling the ECB to hoop it then might Gerry the bastard and his terrorist chums might end up in coalition with FG? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limvillian Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has said he will try to re-negotiate the terms of the 85bn-euro (£72bn) bail-out. Where do Irish Labour stand on this? If they're not keen on telling the ECB to hoop it then might Gerry the bastard and his terrorist chums might end up in coalition with FG? That just will not happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Sinn Fein will never get into government in Republis and if they ever do im sure many of us will be long gone from the earth. Labour want to renegotiate as well with ECB/IMF while i think Shinners policy would be to default the debt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Swapping one gombeen centre-right governing party for another really, FG are the mirror image of FF. I am hoping against hope FG and Lab prove to be incompatible when it comes to coalition talks and FG offer FF a bone to support them in power. Then at last we can have a proper left-right divide with Lab, SF, the Indo's and the ULA ripping these jokers apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limvillian Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 It would be interesting to see how many of its policies SF would actually implement if in power, it is very easy for them to tell all these tall tales when they know well they will never be in power to see them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 It would be interesting to see how many of its policies SF would actually implement if in power, it is very easy for them to tell all these tall tales when they know well they will never be in power to see them out. You could say that about FF,Fg,lab as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limvillian Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 It would be interesting to see how many of its policies SF would actually implement if in power, it is very easy for them to tell all these tall tales when they know well they will never be in power to see them out. You could say that about FF,Fg,lab as well Not really as all those parties could and would be found out if or when elected into power, SF will never be in power in this country and they know it themselves so they can have as much fairytales in their manifesto as they want without ever being called up on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Never say never .......ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limvillian Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Never say never .......ever Very true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Not five years ago people were saying the same about the libdems in the UK, they could make whatever promises they wanted as they would never have to deliver on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 Not five years ago people were saying the same about the libdems in the UK, they could make whatever promises they wanted as they would never have to deliver on them. Well if Gerry and his (newly acquired?) film star teeth were to form part of a Government in the Republic then at least it would give Gaddafi somewhere to claim asylum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 if Gerry was to form part of new government(and its not going to happen). Colonel Gaddafi would be the least of Irelands problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 They won't get in down south, that lot aren't as daft as us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbsboots Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 It could be worse, you could have the SDLP running in elections. Bunch of muppet left-wing hypocrites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 The New Learder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSufferingVilla Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 The New Learder I met Enda a couple of weeks after he had succeeded Noonan as the party leader. Needless to say he didn't inspire me with much confidence. At first he was well spoken and well presented about a dozen jars and handshakes later he had lost his jacket, his tie, his hair was a ruffled mess and he was utterly incoherent. At that moment I knew he would be the ideal figurehead for the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolteExile Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Sinn Fein will never get into government in Republis and if they ever do im sure many of us will be long gone from the earth. Labour want to renegotiate as well with ECB/IMF while i think Shinners policy would be to default the debt Never is a long time. They'll be tainted goods to many down south -even now. But the challenge for them is to present themselves as credible, leftwing opposition over the next 4/5 years and move away from Tiocfaidh ár lá / slogan politics. Whatever else he's been, Gerry Adams has been one of the most effective politicians these islands has produced, even if he and his mates just don't ring true quite often. As Peter Robinson said a few years back: "You can give a terrorist a suit and a mobile phone - he's still a terrorist." Don't want to delve into that whole hornets nest, but what I will say is that with the benefit of time, the events of the late 60's-80's in the North will be less relevant to the majority of voters in the south. Candidates like Mary Lou McDonald and Pearse Doherty seem like able, respectable politicians in their own right and are probably the future of SF. One of them as party leader - if they prove their credentials vis a vis realpolitik- would possibly be more palatable to voters in the south than Adams, and could lead to a scenario where the main parties can't continue to overlook them when it comes to coalitions and so forth. It can't be ignored either that both FF and FG are a product of the painful birth pangs of the Irish Free State - after armed struggle. Before they too felt the conditions were right to go the route of the ballotbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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