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At the moment, I'm undecided. I probably won't decide until the day.
It'll be between Labour and Fine Gael for me.
From what you post on here, I get the impression you don't like FF at all. Out of curiosity, why do you give any preference, no matter how low, to them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
You've never heard of Tuffy? or her da Eamo? She's up there with Harney or Bacik for her visual appeal and up there with Burton for her vocal ineptitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billsthoughts
Fitzgerald, Keating and Ó Broin (to help stem the Labour tide [though v. unlikely] for me.
Connolly is ex-SP... apparently going around saying he's "approved by Joe Higgins"! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
I like the lovely colouredy graph and I'm hoping we never see what colour is assigned to FF (black to match their souls?). I would have voted for Brian O'Shea (Labour), but he quit last week so my number one vote will go to an independent I trust. I'll be going right down the list too. As it stands, I'd probably vote Independent, Independent, Labour, Labour, Fine Gael, Workers Party, Fine Gael, Sinn Fein.
Gogarty will hardly be in the running will he?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
No chance. He put up posters on all the a bus stops there in the last month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
It's gonna be 1 FG, 1 Lab, 1 FF and then a toss-up for the last seat with FG and SF.
I tend to go the whole way down the ballot paper going through the parties in order of like/dislike. As a general rule SF have been my least favourite party due to their ambivalent line on criminality.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
I'm the same. I even gave a PD my number 10 or 11 or something in one of the last couple of elections. It's hugely unlikely to ever count but you never know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
Wouldn't count him out. Fairly active. Even though I think he's a gob****e doesn't mean I'd be confident everyone thinks that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
You another Dublin Midwest Bonnie?
I am.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Lucan for me sins.
I don't think that Gogo will get back in to be honest. I think he's so transparent to the people around here that there's next to no chance of the Greens having a strong vote here.
Frances Fitzgerald losing it in the Seanad on Oireachtas report. Ah the joy of joys.
My grandad was a rabid anti-FFer in his day and he died on January 20th 1997... finally his wish has come true!
It's a dose of realism I suppose. We're most likely looking at a FG/Labour coalition. If it's a tight race I'd rather have a transfer going to FG than FF (even if it is still fairly marginal despite the utter corruption of FF, which says a lot about how rubbish FG are).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Notice the difference between this and the political beliefs thread: "Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democrat, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalise criminals and rule you like a king".
I think macy said as much in that thread too.
I don't have a vote, but I ticked the SF box in the poll anyway. A nordie ticking the SF box is probably no surprise, but I would probably be closer to FF than anyone else in the normal way of things.
But FF are toast, and they deserve to be.
But looking at the rest, they aren't an alternative. Fine Gael would probably have driven into all the same cul-de-sacs FF did in the last few years, and I just can't see Taoiseach Enda Kenny pulling off a hardball renegotiation of the bailout. They seem a bit like a different Leopard with the same spots.
Labour would be better, but they seem committed to going into coalition with FG. I don't know who thought 'Vote Labour, still get Enda' was a good plan, but it isn't as far as I'm concerned.
The only votes that offer the chance of keeping the 2 civil war parties out of government are for the ULA or SF, in the hope that some kind of leftist coalition can be put together. Its probably not terribly likely, but even if it doesn't work, and a FG-Lab coalition goes into government, if SF have a good election, there is a chance they will be the biggest opposition party (and more importantly, FF won't).
In that event I would imagine the exodus from FF would be like rats from a sinking ship, and there's just a chance normal left-right politics might break out
I'll probably vote Fine Gael. I've no fondness for them but they're the only party right of centre aside from FF. I'm hoping they'll take an overall majority but it seems a gap too large to bridge.
What he said.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
The yellows holding press conference now.
Today FM and Sinn Féin reporting that they grew a pair and are pulling out.
live on www.rte.ie
Edit: Greens have pulled out.
Celebrate good times come on.
As opposed to all the other parties, especially FF/FG, whose local corruption has of course been beyond reproach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
Slightly different level of criminality there. You don't see FF or FG hanging around with murderers of Gardai etc etc.
Or FG/lab supporting a FF finance bill?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
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Originally Posted by Mr A
slightly off topic, but at some point those people have to come in from the cold. bear in mind the origins of the major parties in the state; whether you like it or not, whether you agree with it or not, the current incarnation of sinn fein has similar origins, albeit slightly more recent in vintage.
i think sinn fein will increase their share of the vote, although mainly in urban areas. actions like donegal south west can at the very very worst have no effect. when coupled with the fact that they are actually working in power sharing in the north with the dup, and the constituency ground work they do, if managed correctly, they can paint themselves as a credible 'republican' alternative to FF and pick up disaffected FF and maybe labour voters. not all of them can be stupid, can they?