Will the government resign in 2009?

NickCarraway

Jerry Adams & Enda Kenny seem to think so. Obviously, they are opposition party leaders, they live in hope the government will resign as a rule.

But with public confidence in FF at an all time low should they just call it a day?

And if they do, who will form the next government?

mike65

They must be confusing this country with another one thats different by one letter and six months.

galwayrush

Don't they have to resign when they are in prison? ............Oh wait, stroke Fahy ( Galway FF Counciller) didn't.:rolleyes:

peasant

Resign? No way, not them, not ever.

Will they be kicked out? Probably

Diabhal Beag

No. Those ***** will never let a paycheck that big pass them by.

NickCarraway

peasant wrote: »

Resign? No way, not them, not ever.

Will they be kicked out? Probably

Ok, if they don't resign, will they be ousted? Or is that a bit of a stretch? There were 100,000 very angry people in Dublin today.
These are unusual times.

timmywex

They wont resign, theyll go on and try to get through this whole thing.

That is of course until we go bankrupted and the eu get involved and kick them out.

They wont last to 2012, at least i hope they dont, for everyones sake

towel401

They will but only to be replaced by Biffo II - an updated borg version of the original biffo. so basically the same thing only harder to kill

PirateShampoo

Only reason they haven't gone already is because the opposition cant get the majority. Greens have no spine what so ever and should never of been let near a position of power.

Terry

The sad thing is that we don't have many politicians who are any different than the current regime.

A decent rainbow coalition of all parties and a few independants would be nice, but probably not workable.

It's going to have to get a lot worse before FF have any chance of losing in a general election.

shamblertine

I wouldn't mind seeing a labour/sinn fein/greens/independants coalition, anything really just so long as Cowen and Enda Kenny aren't in charge.

Ace2007

NickCarraway wrote: »

Ok, if they don't resign, will they be ousted? Or is that a bit of a stretch? There were 100,000 very angry people in Dublin today.
These are unusual times.

100,000 people were on the streets protesting about different things

and nope they won't resign

Tech3

shamblertine wrote: »

I wouldn't mind seeing a labour/sinn fein/greens/independants coalition, anything really just so long as Cowen and Enda Kenny aren't in charge.

One thing this goverment did right was bring peace to within this whole island and to reintoduce sinn fein into the next government would be a bad idea. They will just bring unrest to both borders. Anyway I cant see a conservative party like fg or ff being in coalition with sinn fein. Labour are the only party with some kind of leading inspiration that of Eamon Gilmore.

Anyway back to the discussion, I cannot see the government resigning. It will take more that 100,000 people to get the fats cats out of office.

Firefox10

Im sorry but do people honestly see the likes of kenny, gilmore,etc as credable leaders to lead us out of the current cirsis. I just dont see it. if a new goverment came to power they will still will have to deal with same problems we have now, Don't get me wrong, I would like to see FF ousted in the next election as much as the next person especially after the banking fiscasco but i just dont see how FG,labour,etc would deal with things any different.

I'd put this man in charge

KnifeWRENCH

No because I don't think any other government would do a better job.
I wouldn't mind seeing Gilmore have a crack at Taoiseach but I do not want to see Enda Kenny in charge because the man does not inspire any sort of confidence.
Cowen may not be perfect, but he is a better party leader than Kenny imo. This Government certainly won't resign in 2009.

galwayrush

Anybody else would be a better leader than Cowen and co.:mad:

Firefox10

..Or maybe this guy could sort things out.:D
http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Coalition maybe???

Firefox10

galwayrush wrote: »

Anybody else would be a better leader than Cowen and co.:mad:

Hmm...the thing is, a different goverment will still have to make difficult decisions that will not be popular with people. It's a case of dammed if we do..dammed if we dont im afraid.

galwayrush

Firefox10 wrote: »

Hmm...the thing is, a different goverment will still have to make difficult decisions that will not be popular with people. It's a case of dammed if we do..dammed if we dont im afraid.

True, but i look forward to a break from the extreme croniesm practiced by FF.:(

towel401

can we offer Obama a job here when his 4 years are up? there is no reason why he should refuse really since he'd get paid a lot more after years of biffo giving himself pay rises

galwayrush

towel401 wrote: »

can we offer Obama a job here when his 4 years are up? there is no reason why he should refuse really since he'd get paid a lot more after years of biffo giving himself pay rises

I sent him an e-mail asking him to consider make us the 51st state............... I believe he's still laughing his arse off.

RobAMerc

it doesn't matter whether the new leader would be any good or not in the short term, its the fact they might be perceived to be at least different that might inspire confidence in the country again.
People have totally lost faith in Biffo and Co, they are seen as crooked enough to get us into this mess but too stupid to get us out. ( micro/selfish Vs macro/selfless not a FF strong point)

And no they won't resign, the word is not in the Irish political vocabulary.
If Lenihan didn't after the utter disgrace he made of himself and Ireland last week, then no one will. ( He should have been fired but that ain't gonna happen now is it :rolleyes: )

towel401

galwayrush wrote: »

I believe he's still laughing his arse off.

did you find that out through his twitter account?

Firefox10

galwayrush wrote: »

True, but i look forward to a break from the extreme croniesm practiced by FF.:(

Well on that point alone i would have to agree with that.

Ace2007

richard bruton is the man to sort it out if you want an anti FF person to run the country - but unfortunely that involves getting rid of the clown that is kenny.

OPENROAD

Would like to see a lot more detail from the opposition as to what they would do in the current situation and in particular fiscal policy.

Call Me Jimmy

Firefox10 wrote: »

..Or maybe this guy could sort things out.:D
http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

die

Terry

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

die

Careful now.

Terry

rarnes1 wrote: »

I'd put this man in charge

Nah. Hitler would be a better replacement.
Get rid of all the hippies who hold up progress, get some decent roads and office blocks built and then get rid of him before he remembers that he hates Catholics too.

animaal

Fianna Fail took credit for the good times, so they can take the blame for squandering the proceeds, leaving us with no safety net and a financial system undermined by cronyism (who'd have guessed?).

The thing about this country is that a sizeable proportion of the population will continue to vote for them until the country's in such a state that even the die-hards can't justify their performance. And by that time, it'll take more than a five-year term to fix things again. Whoever gets in after them (IF we get a different government next time) won't be able to turn the economy around in five years, so FF will get voted in again in time to inherit the upturn... And so the cycle goes on.