Fianna Fail's Top 100 Strokes - Add Yours

cml387 wrote: »

Buying out the Talbot workers by giving them wages for life to do nothing.

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Nothing funny or original about the repeated-ad-nauseum phrase "haters gonna hate".

If and when you come up with a post that's original and funny that we can have a laugh at, let us know!

lastlaugh wrote: »

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Nothing funny or original about the repeated-ad-nauseum phrase "haters gonna hate".

If and when you come up with a post that's original and funny that we can have a laugh at, let us know!

Liam, what's this 'we' business?

I'm sure I've made some people laugh at some of my posts, and I like the thoughts of that to be honest.

Your posts are extremely boring and depressing. You seem like a bitter, judgemental individual and I actually kind of feel sorry for you a little bit.

Xenophile wrote: »

the local pub........anyone over the age of 50 should be allowed to drive home after three pints on a deserted country road. Lazy laws one size fits all.

A Fine Gael councillor has admitted that he drinks and drives and sees nothing wrong with 'seasoned drinkers' having a few pints and then getting behind the wheel of a car.

Tipperary South councillor, Michael Fitzgerald, who already has a previous drink driving conviction, made his comments during an interview on Tipp FM radio.

When asked if he drinks and drives, he said yes, he drives after drinking 'three or four pints'. He said that when it comes to this issue, the 'wrong people are being targeted' and that there are 'seasoned drinkers who can take four pints and you would hardly know it'

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Why was it a "ridiculous question" ? Too many options to narrow down to 100 ? Or maybe it's too hard to distinguish between fvckups and strokes ?

Irish Steve wrote: »

Giving themselves pensions that defy the imagination in terms of their cost and their scope, giving themselves allowances that if given to anyone else would have revenue on their necks so fast it would be funny, paying themselves all manner of strange bonuses and special payments just for doing the job, and not doing it very well, and worst of all, for being so damn complacent about the fact that they've done it

Destroying local politics so that local councillors can achieve very little real change for anyone, effectively protecting the parish pump concept.

Cutting more and more from local authority budgets so that they can't do much for anyone any more.

straightjacketing the present politicians by setting up the recovery program with the IMF before they were booted out, in the hope that long memories will subside, and the country will hate FG/Labour by the time the next election comes round.

Doing whatever it took to make sure that the bondholders got repaid so that they could keep their personal gravy trains going.

Imposing things like Carbon taxes on things like heating oil without putting viable and acceptable alternatives in place that are actually usable.

Failing to bring engineers and architects for project like Priory Hall that were "signed off" without proper inspections and certification to book, they should be in Mountjoy for their failure to do the job they were paid for,=.

Failing to tackle monopolies like legal, medical and accountancy, all of which rip the system off without any fear of comeback or examination.

Failure to tackle the major unions and allowing them to line their pockets without any fear of investigation or comeback.

Failure to look even a short distance beyond the next election, even when issues that needed long term planning were being discussed.

Failure to be honest at even a basic level.

Making the brown envelope and unvouched expenses cultures acceptable at the highest levels.

Doing it in such a way that they were admired when they got found out. I will always remember a Joe Duffy interview on the Gay Byrne show, where a local resident of Ballymun commented "wasn't he a cure hoor for getting away with it for as long as he did". The grudging admiration for a master stroke player was clear for all to see, and it sums up so much of what's wrong and flawed with Irish Politcics and Irish Political life.

If Taxi Drivers with certain convictions have to go before the courts to keep their licence, perhaps we should introduce licences for potential TD's with equally stringent restrictions. That way, some of the more blatant rule benders and breakers would not even be on the ballot paper, regardless of if they are standing for a party, or newly "independent".

The biggest stroke?
Somehow persuading the country that "the recession will only be a short one, and the property market will have a soft landing", and doing it in a way that they were believed by a lot of people and companies, who are now left with the damage from believing them, while the PS, semi states and politicians are still living in a lot more comfort than the majority of the people they are/were supposed to be serving.

The more I think about it, the more I despise them, and the system that allowed them to get away with it, and even worse, that has no means to make them pay in any way for what they've done to the country.

Every one of them can retire without a moments thought about their future security or finances, way before the official retiring age, they've more than gold plated their positions, to the detriment and suffering of just about the entire nation for the next 2 or 3 generations.