If a fianna fail candidate came to your door canvasing, what would you say to them?

Is everyone else mad at fianna fail(ure)?
When do you think the next general election will be?
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bleg

You've got a 10 second head start.

mickstupp

If a FF candidate came calling I would probably just close the door, saying nothing at all. I don't feel like anything I have to say to them, or the Greens, would make any difference whatsoever, so what's the point? They don't listen.

RoundyMooney

CordiallyScofflaw won't be happy with this thread!

Personally, I'd hope that it were one of my two FF TD's (it never has been, and I don't exactly live in the middle of nowhere), Me Feiner extraordinaire Ned O' Keeffe (google him if you need to, he's a moron), or parish pump jockey Michael Ahern.

The two of them have a bit of a rivalry going, and only speak in the Dail when they want to feather their nests, or get a veiled dig in against one another.

To answer the question, I could engage with either of them, and try logic, but I would more likely tell them to go and fornicate themselves.

mikemac

I don't live in the area where my vote is

I tell all candidates this and send them on their way.

Poly

Where do you start? do you list their catalalogue of failures alphabetically or chronologically ? Or maybe divide them into sub headings. Corruption. Cronyism. Economic Treason or just incompetent.

I will find it very hard to be civil to any FF’er who calls at my door. I doubt they’ll call though

kev9100

Get the **** off my property.

PeterIanStaker

Burn a copy of the constitution in front of him.

Liam Byrne

Go back to the dining room and pull a chair into the hall, pick up a copy of the list of things that they've done that have sickened me, and then sit down and say "OK, so - explain yourselves." (and possibly: "You've got two minutes before I empty the contents of my cesspit over you").

Interrupt them every time they start bull****ting or lying (which I reckon would be every 2 seconds)

Then, when they inevitably get confused by the unfamiliar concept of telling the truth and not being able to waffle and lie unchallenged, follow them up the road, calling in to every house handing out the same list as soon as anyone answers the door to them.

Wolfe Tone

Id say "sorry, wont vote FF no matter what you say, there is no point wasting your time" ad close the door.

Imhof Tank

Challenge them to explain the policy differences between FF and Fine Geal

c_man

Tell them I'm not interested and close the door.

Yeah I'm mad as hell, but I was raised with manners! :pac:


Actually with all the "I can't wait til I can give them a piece of my mind" posts I've seen on boards, I wonder what reactions have been encountered up in Donegal?

steamengine

FF - door to door canvasing ???? Surely they wouldn't engage in such 'populist nonsense'. :rolleyes:

later12

I would tell them I never have voted for them and probably never will. At the same time I would advise him (or her) to keep her head down, and try again after the next election.

Fianna Fail will be back.

tricky D

Next time the water will be boiling.

Amtmann

hogwort wrote: »

i wouldnt open the door to FF or FG either,i stopped the door at the FG guy and he promised me train rails the length and breath of ireland,never,never happened and that was ten years ago

FG have not been in power for the past ten years, so how could they have delivered anything?

bmaxi

I'd ask him if he was lost.

Black Swan

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