Who are you voting for and why ?

Now FF and their golden circle buddies have fleeced us for up to 70 bn euros and many people think voting FG is the alternative.

When Fianna Fáil and their golden circle decided to recapitalise Bank of Ireland and AIB (worth €1.5bn at the time) with €7bn odd of tax payers' money in return for a 25% stake in them, Sinn Féin voted in favour of it. It was left to Gilmore to point out the fundamental injustice of such a move. Similarly in 2007 Sinn Féin did a complete u-turn on its economic policies and were desperately trying to get into coalition with the crowd you're deriding above.

Sinn Fein was the only party to fight against the Lisbon Treaty.

Is that so? I must have just been deluded regarding all the things I was doing at that time so. I'm not in Sinn Féin, but yet I distinctly remember flypasting at 4am and spending my evenings handing out leaflets for weeks.

Gerry Adams was the only world leader to meet with Bush and speak in opposition to the invasion of Iraq.

Adams a "world leader"? :rolleyes:

I also remember Ógra Shinn Féin protesting outside Stormont about Bush and then inside Adams and co swanning around the place with him. Gas.

Almost as gas as Martin McGuinness recently being pictured with his arms around the Israeli ambassador, clasping his hand while presenting him with a book. Yeah, Boycott Israel... :rolleyes:

Sinn Fein is the only party that speaks against the misuse of Irish nattural resources ie Shell to Sea and fishing rights

Really, when I was getting f*cked into a ditch after a site occupation in Rossport I didn't see anyone from Sinn Féin there at the time.

Listen, I don't want to come across as some bitter arsehole, I was in Sinn Féin for long enough myself. That having been said, much of what you've wrote above is simply nonsense.

Ideally, we need a government that will balance the books - with as little extra tax as possible - take on the totally inefficient mess that is the public service, respect civil liberties, and have some vision for economic recovery.

1. Fianna Fail ... need I say more.:mad:
2. Labour. Just voted in their AGM that its their policy to reverse the PS pay cuts, seemingly independent of any reform. Just reverse the cuts. They just lost my vote.
3. Greens. Propped up Fianna Fail. Killed most of the roads programme beyond what was already under construction. Clearly few if any new roads will go to construction if they get reelected. They also did what I considered impossible, i.e. make more crazy anti-nuclear policies (I considered it impossible since we already have a ban on nuclear energy generation) yet they scuppered two Uranium exploration projects that could have brought wealth, jobs and prestige to Co. Donegal, which is the poorest in Ireland. They imposed a whole load of new taxes and regulations that are going to hurt for a long time.
4. Sinn Fein/IRA. Some positives, but it will take a new generation of SF politicians/leadership before I can vote for them.
5. Socialist Party, SWP and miscellaneous far left headbangers ... no thanks

That leaves me with Fine Gael. I believe, at very least that Enda Kenny is an intelligent and honest person, so I couldn't care less about his supposed lack of charisma. I also think they have at least some idea what they're doing.

nacho libre wrote: »

Thanks for answering my question. I'll likely be voting Labour come the next election so.

take note of the second part of my post, i'd recommend voting SF if that's your swaying factor tbh

rcecil wrote: »

And what PARTY were you flypasting for? Sinn Fein was the only PARTY fighting Lisbon.

More nonsense. I was out on behalf of Éirigi. The Socialist Party and the SWP and a few other PARTIES also opposed Lisbon.

Gerry Adams is a world leader according to the leaders I respect like Mandela.

He leads a dwindling centre-left political party in a small European country. He is not a world leader, much as you'd like him to be.

Adams "swanning" around with Bush? Again Adams was the only one to present him with a letter opposing invasions and US troops at Shannon.

So you don't find the notion of Adams hobnobbing with Bush inside Stormont while Ógra protested outside a slight bit contradictory. Almost as contradictory as Adams and McGuinness getting pally with an Israeli ambassador while simultaneously participating in Boycott Israel campaigns.

Shell to Sea? Congratulations for being at the Garda riot as were several SF staff. I will give you their names upon request. A solid delegation of us were at Castlerea recently with Pat O'Donnell and later the Mayo SF councillors went inside to meet with him.

I never said nobody in Sinn Féin participated in that particular campaign, when I was in SF I was also out picketing Shell stations. My only concern is your bald assertion that it was solely Sinn Féin who were driving that campaign when it wasn't then and it certainly isn't now.

ONLY SF as a party have spoken out and worked in his behalf.

More spoof.

Further, tough decisions are made at a national Ard Fheis and fully debated.

They are in their arse, they're made by Gerry Adams and his clique. There was f*ck all consultation in 2007 when Sinn Féin cynically kangaroo-hopped into the centre aching to get into coalition with Fianna Fáil, in fact that disaster led to them actually losing a TD when Adams was crowing about 10-12.

Lastly I think people on the left need to work in unison not spend time attacking each other.

Ha, so he says after the litany of "Sinn Féin are the ONLY..."

The enemy laughs at you.

I'd say there's people (and not just the "enemy") laughing at you if you honestly buy into the nonsense you've just wrote above.