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Who is your favourite politician and what are your political values?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    see ye in the morning pal

    I see dead people.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Never ceses to amaze me when people say they like and amdire the politicans that shafted us and want more...

    It's live listening to criminals saying that reducing the number of gardai would be a good thing for the country.

    Having a favourite politician is a lot like having a favourite porn star. You might like what they are doing now but eventually desperation for a pay check will have them doing stuff in a few years that you just don't like.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,507 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    A lot of people saying whatever is best for society. It's nice wishing happiness for all but do you not have any sort of plan ahead rather than taking things as they come?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    Michael Healy Rae,
    a man of the people, for the people


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    He's my favourite poliTiTian too


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    He's my favourite poliTiTian too
    all right, we all cannot be perfect.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Who's my fav politician - Ming
    What are my political values : Death to all politicians.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,412 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    I kinda like some of the things Ming says.. (Although he's more anti than any thing)
    I just can't stand how he says it .. Angry angry man.he's indignant and angry at other politicians because they're politicans.And so is he now.

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    grover cleveland or margaret thatcher would be my favourite.

    both strong characters with the right ideas on economics.

    just for personality - bertie ahern, taking criticism like a hero and completely shameless about taking the money that we all would have taken in the same position

    What do you like about her specifically?


  • Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    BOHtox wrote: »
    Libertarian here. I don't like being told what to do, I don't like communists and I don't like socialists! I like free markets, low tax, being able to do what I want etc. I believe everyone should be treated with equality and have the chance to fulfil their dreams without intervention from the government.
    Ron Paul is my favourite politician.
    Reagan, Milton Friedman and Thatcher are up there too though, although Friedman was an economist.

    I'm sorry, but you're talking nonsense. Reagan and Thatcher weren't libertarians. Reagan was statist.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭comeback_kid


    tony007 wrote: »
    I'm sorry, but you're talking nonsense. Reagan and Thatcher weren't libertarians. Reagan was statist.

    hes wasnt statist by irish standards

    all poltical parties in ireland are statist so it would be nice to see an unappologetic capitalst pig come to the fore


  • Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    hes wasnt statist by irish standards

    all poltical parties in ireland are statist so it would be nice to see an unappologetic capitalst pig come to the fore

    yes, he was. He massively increased state spending when in power.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭comeback_kid


    tony007 wrote: »
    yes, he was. He massively increased state spending when in power.

    republicans dont tend to regard defense spending as spending


  • Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    republicans dont tend to regard defense spending as spending

    They're wrong so.


  • Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭DonQuay1


    a) Who is your favourite politician and b) what are your political values?

    a) Shoot every single politician (No exceptions) .... then re-shoot them when they're dead - to make sure.

    b) I'm middle of the road.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    joe higgans or jerry adams
    left leaning slightly socialist and republican


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭comeback_kid


    joe higgans or jerry adams
    left leaning slightly socialist and republican


    left leaning by who,s standards , lenins ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Owen_S


    I'm a firm believer in not letting school teachers run the health system. IMO most of the country's elected politicians are babbling morons who really shouldn't have been elected in the first place, and our problems stem from how they are elected at a local level.

    I think that civilization is fecked, which is pessimistic but the truth.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    tony007 wrote: »
    I'm sorry, but you're talking nonsense. Reagan and Thatcher weren't libertarians. Reagan was statist.

    I never said I liked them because they were libertarians. They were all good conservatists with strong characters and were very decisive - more than you can say about pretty much every politician!


  • Registered Users Posts: 34,034 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    goat2 wrote: »
    Michael Healy Rae,
    a man of the people, for the people

    you taking the piss right?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 323 ✭✭emigrate2012


    Favourite? Gotta be Joan button, that sasquash really puts lead in my pencil.

    Politics? Progressive,intelligent and for the greater good of all.But seeing as how in this country,the people who practice such are few and far between and are generally independents,they'll never come to power. All of which means the country's getting fcuked,ass or mouth,either way we're taking someone else's load.


  • Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    ripcurl105 wrote: »
    no foreigners
    take back our country
    thatcherism
    no more nigerians or knackers or gypsies
    simples
    then we have a pure clean society

    mod: banned.
    there has been more than enough inbreeding.


  • Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    BOHtox wrote: »
    I never said I liked them because they were libertarians. They were all good conservatists with strong characters and were very decisive - more than you can say about pretty much every politician!

    If you like free-market capitalism you wouldn't like them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bwatson


    Nigel Farage is my favourite politician.

    I agree with his party's liberal policies on many social issues, and also agree with their stance on the European Union's invasion of sovereignty among many others.

    I am pleased that a vote for the UKIP among many people is no longer considered to be a waste. In the next election it looks as if they will have surpassed the Liberal Democrats due to the hopelessness and ineptitude of the current conservative government.

    Moreover, he is incredibly astute, charismatic and articulate. Far more so than any other leader of a mainstream British party.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    tony007 wrote: »
    If you like free-market capitalism you wouldn't like them.
    Well... I do.

    They were both fiscally conservative, they both had free markets, both privatised, lower taxes etc.


  • Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    BOHtox wrote: »
    Well... I do.

    They were both fiscally conservative, they both had free markets, both privatised, lower taxes etc.

    Reagan didn't have a free market. Do you call privatising profit and socialising loss free market economics?!
    Government spending was HUGE after he left. That is not fiscal conservatism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    IrishAm wrote: »
    I quite like Nigel Farage. If there was an Irish politician of the same ilk, I would support him.

    A few politicians to stand up against the greedy farmers would be nice too.

    Who are these greedy farmers given the average income is less than half the industrial wage?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Lech Walesa
    Vaclav Havel.
    They put most of today's politicians to shame.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    tony007 wrote: »
    Reagan didn't have a free market. Do you call privatising profit and socialising loss free market economics?!

    Government spending was HUGE after he left. That is not fiscal conservatism.

    What do you mean by that in bold?
    Reagan cut regulation, tax and controlled inflation.

    16 million jobs were created, whilst dealing with very high inflation and unemployment.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    BOHtox wrote: »
    What do you mean by that in bold?
    Reagan cut regulation, tax and controlled inflation.

    16 million jobs were created, whilst dealing with very high inflation and unemployment.

    What are you talking about? Whenhe began his time in office it was around 5.7 percent unemployment. Whenhe left it was about 5! And if he actually used the vast amount of money to actually create jobs, the benefits would have been huge compared to giving it to the military.
    I mean that hisadministration hoisted the debts/risk of private institutions onto the peoples backs. Hebailed out Chrysler, among others.
    Hewas one of the most protectionist presidents in recent times.


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