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Uk elections in May - Will the Irish follow?

  • 06-04-2010 4:25pm
    #1
    allanb49
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭


    Ok with Gordon Brown calling for an election this year in England

    What are the chances of our dicatators following suite.

    Or will the go with the likely and just keep going as no one will stand up and oppose them?

    How do we the people go about calling an election in this country ourselves

    or is it up to the people in charge to decide?

    Should there be a General Election 34 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    55% 19 votes
    How can we afford it?
    44% 15 votes


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  • #2
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    allanb49 wrote: »
    Ok with Gordon Brown calling for an election this year in England

    What are the chances of our dicatators following suite.

    Or will the go with the likely and just keep going as no one will stand up and oppose them?

    How do we the people go about calling an election in this country ourselves

    or is it up to the people in charge to decide?

    i dont think so.. the uk had to because we were due an election.. because gordon brown was nearing his 5 year period.


  • #3
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Of course they won't follow.

    That would mean doing something right for a change...


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Why would they, for Christs sake?


  • #5
    allanb49
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    Is there no way for the population in general to get a vote of no confidance or is it just up to the elected members of goverment to decide?


  • #6
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    allanb49 wrote: »
    Is there no way for the population in general to get a vote of no confidance or is it just up to the elected members of goverment to decide?

    no the government decides when the primeminister will change or he decides... then you vote for whichever primeminister you want.:D


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  • #7
    fergalmejergal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭fergalmejergal


    owenc wrote: »
    no the government decides when the primeminister will change or he decides... then you vote for whichever primeminister you want.:D

    Ah settle down there ya big bollox head !


  • #8
    Pot Noodle =
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Pot Noodle =


    March on the Dail


  • #9
    KerranJast
    Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    allanb49 wrote: »
    Is there no way for the population in general to get a vote of no confidance or is it just up to the elected members of goverment to decide?
    Up to TDs to vote confidence. If you really want an election you need to pester the bejaysus out of every backbench FF TD in the country.


  • #10
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    It would be the smart thing for FF to call for an election.
    Doesn't matter who's in charge, next couple of years will be terrible, if there's an election which FG won, and the country would then no oubt get worse regardless, FF would say 'I told ya so, not enough experience in running a country' then we'd get 10 more years of FF.

    Think we're just stuck with them


  • #11
    KerranJast
    Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    Maryam White Card wrote: »
    It would be the smart thing for FF to call for an election.
    Doesn't matter who's in charge, next couple of years will be terrible, if there's an election which FG won, and the country would then no oubt get worse regardless, FF would say 'I told ya so, not enough experience in running a country' then we'd get 10 more years of FF.

    Think we're just stuck with them
    Most of the current ministers are screwed if there's an election as are a load of backbench TDs so the turkeys aren't going to vote for Christmas.

    My guess is the Greens will get their remaining few ideas implemented and then find some way of collapsing the Government so they look "principled" and separate from FF. Election sometime between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011 methinks.


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  • #12
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    I'd be first in line to throw rotten fruit and veg at the sods on their way OUT of office, but why on Gods green earth would they call an election when they don't have to. They'd get slaughtered.

    Time heals all wounds they say. Not sure that applies to Fianna Fail anymore.


  • #13
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    fergalmejergal wrote: »
    Ah settle down there ya big bollox head !

    who gives you the right to speak to another member like that!:mad:


  • #14
    KerranJast
    Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    fergalmejergal wrote: »
    Ah settle down there ya big bollox head !
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again Fergal?


  • #15
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    If the government falls now and fine gael get in, they'll stop nama half way through, allow the banks to collapse, destroy the country and lose billions to the banks on the way down.

    Completely aside from that, there is waaayyyy too much politics on AH at the moment. If you want to start political threads the whole time, there are threads for it, right here ;)


  • #16
    allanb49
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    i'm not trying to start a political thread more of a "pub talk with inclined political views before heading off into sexual innuendo territory after a few pints" thread A nice and jovial talk in normal everyday speak without any mumbo jumbo.


  • #17
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    allanb49 wrote: »
    i'm not trying to start a political thread more of a "pub talk with inclined political views before heading off into sexual innuendo territory after a few pints" thread A nice and jovial talk in normal everyday speak without any mumbo jumbo.

    So why should the Irish government have to call a general election simply because the British government calls one? Let's just call another one each time the French, Americans, Spanish and all the rest call their respective elections?

    Your suggestion frankly makes no sense.


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