Next Government

**pete** · 10/05/2007, 11:36 AM

What is your preferred choice of next government.
I have tried to add all possibilities within reason.

**Dodge** · 10/05/2007, 11:38 AM

Someone forgot the poll...

**GavinZac** · 10/05/2007, 11:39 AM

Anarchy then, yeah?

**OneRedArmy** · 10/05/2007, 11:45 AM

Too many possibilities?!

**Schumi** · 10/05/2007, 11:47 AM

Too few I'd say.

**pete** · 10/05/2007, 11:52 AM

Impatient bunch

I have tried to give all available options assuming seat numbers within reasonable expectations. e.g. no FG & PD option as number would never add up.

**BohsPartisan** · 10/05/2007, 12:18 PM

Well, I really don't think it will make any difference in reality so I've gone for FF and SF because I believe it would do those two parties the maximum damage. If there was an ALL ABOVE PARTIES TO MERGE - to cut the pretence theres any real difference between them, I'd have gone for that.

**OneRedArmy** · 10/05/2007, 12:18 PM

Labour to dump FG like a bad smell and jump into bed with FF, Pat Rabitte to resign as Labour leader to save his own personal reputation (but he'll still take up a Cabinet position).

PD's to be decimated.

Hopefully.

Also, as was stated on the Panel last night, loving the duplicity of FF refusing to share power with the Shinners whilst pushing for Big Ian to do the same in the North for the past 5 years........ kind of like their support for full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement including prisoner release in the North, until it got to Garda Jerry McCabe's killers.

**Erstwhile B�z** · 10/05/2007, 1:22 PM

Fianna F�il and Labour, to see Rat Pabbitte use his best university-debating rhetoric to explain away his craven lust for power either as party leader and T�naiste or as a principled, morally upright resigning dissenter ... who lands a ministry in a plumb department. That'd be great politics.

edit: D'oh! Just like OneRedArmy, then ...

**Erstwhile B�z** · 10/05/2007, 1:28 PM

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

Also, as was stated on the Panel last night, loving the duplicity of FF refusing to share power with the Shinners whilst pushing for Big Ian to do the same in the North for the past 5 years........ kind of like their support for full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement including prisoner release in the North, until it got to Garda Jerry McCabe's killers.

Wow. I always thought that D�il �ireann was a wildly different method of parliamentary government from the Northern Executive as defined in the Good Friday Agreement, meaning that, amongst other things, the term 'power-sharing' did not equate to the term 'coalition' by any stretch of the imagination.

**BohsPartisan** · 10/05/2007, 1:29 PM

Originally Posted by Erstwhile B�z

the term 'power-sharing' did not equate to the term 'coalition' by any stretch of the imagination.

You don't have to stretch the imagination too far, its simply a carve up of power and cabinet positions by the two sectarian wings of NI politics.

**Erstwhile B�z** · 10/05/2007, 1:33 PM

Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

You don't have to stretch the imagination too far, its simply a carve up of power and cabinet positions by the two sectarian wings of NI politics.

I know, and I'm not a fan of it (while not having any real alternative). Government in the 26 counties, though, is obviously run on a radically different basis and any attempt to imply that Sinn F�in's status is the same for the DUP as it is for Fianna F�il, Fine Gael, Labour, etc., is dishonest.

**Conor H** · 10/05/2007, 6:57 PM

FF and PD's/Labour.

As long as FG and the greens are nowhere near it..

**SligoBrewer** · 10/05/2007, 7:20 PM

how anyone could vote fianna fail after everything is beyond me..

crime, poor infastructure, hospitals are a mess and then bertiegate..i want to see change, first of all corruption should not be tolerated at all and then to see ff make all the promises they made in 2002 again..the same ones, because they really have done nothing

**superfrank** · 10/05/2007, 7:38 PM

FG, Labour and the Greens but far from what I really want.

**Risteard** · 10/05/2007, 7:40 PM

Originally Posted by superfrank

FG, Labour and the Greens but far from what I really want.

Ditto.
I'll settle for a change.

**superfrank** · 10/05/2007, 8:19 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Ditto.
I'll settle for a change.

I see it as the most favourable and realistic alternative being offered.

**lilywhite stu** · 10/05/2007, 8:51 PM

Fine Gael and Labour for me. It would be great if they could avoid adding the greens the new gov would start to look a bit soft if they did you did if you ask me.
Think its ingrained in many people to vote FF regardless because they think something bad would happen if they didn't.

**GavinZac** · 10/05/2007, 8:54 PM

voted Fine Fail and Labour. some change would be nice, but i really dont think enda kenny should be taoiseach

**bennocelt** · 11/05/2007, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by SligoBrewer

how anyone could vote fianna fail after everything is beyond me..

crime, poor infastructure, hospitals are a mess and then bertiegate..i want to see change, first of all corruption should not be tolerated at all and then to see ff make all the promises they made in 2002 again..the same ones, because they really have done nothing

yeah sligobrewer thats a good question, FF the builders party, bunch of crooks
BUT have the opposition done enough do gain peoples confidence, i honestly dont think so, and thats why i hope fg/lab dont get into power, when have we seen Enda Kenny and Rabbite slamming the FF politicans on any issues, only now weeks before an election
better the devil you know...............