You're wavin a laugh EG!
You're wavin a laugh EG!
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Almost 10,000 goms voted for the FF candidate in Meath East, scarily over 1,000 more traitors voted for a shill. Ireland truly is a Fyffes republic.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0525/452...support-level/Originally Posted by RTE
What the hell?
They've done absolutely nothing to warrant 1% support in the 2 years since the GE. A frankly frightening result and a prime example why I'm emigrating even though I don't have to.
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I would maintain it has nothing to do with FF, and more to do with a lack of other options for those who have come to despise the government parties.
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It has everything to do with FF. They should be so so toxic that for anyone to say that they would vote for them should be akin to someone saying they are gonna vote for the Nazi-KKK-Al Qaeda-Mao-Pol Pot party.
They shouldn't even cross any sane person's mind as an option; as an idea.
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FF or FG?
I think it's all moot anyway while the IMF are in charge. And while I'm sure FF would love to start ramping up house prices again and calling this a good thing, it flies in the face of rational economics, so ain't going to happen.
But depressing that FF are still viable at this stage alright.
I would genuinely sooner vote Monster Raving Loony than Fianna Fáil. I am honestly just flabbergasted that anyone would even consider voting for them. Grr! Sometimes I'm glad I no longer have to share an island with the sort of people who make statistics like this happen (although over here we've UKIP and the Tories. If Boris Johnson ever becomes Prime Minister, I'm going full V for Vendetta on Westminster!!)
There are lots of options. You mean that people are unwilling to vote for a party that doesn't have a realistic chance of forming a government. Because Irish people generally only vote for people who can do something for them and don't really understand the concept of voting on principle.
Interesting point made by Jim Glennon today - for all the FF are back stuff, traditionally FF and FG between them would have 75-80% of the vote. They're now down to barely 50%.
A significant proportion will always forgive FF. The number of times I've heard people giving out about Government decisions on cuts and taxes and followed by "sure this lot are always the same" - it's always been proceeded by FF fecking up the economy, FG and Labour cleaning up the mess, and then FF sweeping back to power as they're the ones to be trusted with the economy. It's a blind spot the irish electorate have, but each time a few more are knocked off for ever (hence the trend to drop support)
It is turning out to be a massive mistake for Labour to go in with FG. The citizens are better off, but yet short term National Interest has scuppered a chance to change the political landscape. FG with independents would've been an unstable coalition, and Labour would've been Leaders of the Opposition, starving FF of oxygen.
And they want to vote for the winner, like they like to support a winner in sport.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/polit...t-26-1.1427920
Oh no, no. No.
I Actually feel Sick. Came in here to post it.
I'll probably be still away when the next GE. If they're in power when I get back I'll be leading a coup.
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You know something, I can genuinely see why people violently overthrow democratically elected governments. The rage I felt when sitting at my computer screen was pretty bad. I can only imagine what I would have done had I been in some sort of mob of like-minded people. Why are Irish people seemingly so fixed on self-destruction?!
Then again, the longer I've been interested in politics, the more I've lost respect for the average voter. Is there some way we can introduce a test so the sort of people who vote Boris Johnson into positions of power because they think he's funny are permanently removed from the electoral register?!
I got the "sure they're all the same" comment. I nearly launched one.
I'll be just finished my Canadian visa in April 2016. I assume barring catastrophe that that'll be when the GE will be.
I will go all falling down on this country's ass if what I think will happen, happens.
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Not even that; "They're all the same, therefore I'll vote for the one of them that ****ed up the country, instead of one of the identical ones that hasn't yet."
Almost as bad as "my dad was a Fianna Fáil man". Oh really, well your dad also rode your mum, and I doubt you'd catch you doing that!
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