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Local Elections in Hamburg...has it something with Enda Kenny?

  • 20-02-2011 5:32pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭


    Just got some results from the Local Elections in Hamburg/Germany. Only a few days after Enda Kenny came to visit Angela Merkel, FG's friends, The CDU, lost more than half of their seats. A well deserved hammering, if you ask me :D

    Is that some coincidence? Or do people wake up and see, that a conservative party is not the right solution to turn matters to the good?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Just got some results from the Local Elections in Hamburg/Germany. Only a few days after Enda Kenny came to visit Angela Merkel, FG's friends, The CDU, lost more than half of their seats. A well deserved hammering, if you ask me :D

    Is that some coincidence? Or do people wake up and see, that a conservative party is not the right solution to turn matters to the good?


    One of my many friends in Hamburg told me that he disagreed with Enda's policy on Irish language. The others had never heard of him, or me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    One of my many friends in Hamburg told me that he disagreed with Enda's policy on Irish language. The others had never heard of him, or me.

    Your friends have never heard of you?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Your friends have never heard of you?

    The OP made a stupid and daft remark, so did I!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Which part was 'stupid' and 'daft', please?

    That FG and Merkel's CDU have close bonds? This one is a fact, which (at least in Germany) everybody knows ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    The OP made a stupid and daft remark, so did I!

    It wasn't that stupid, I understood every word of it and it's poetry from start to finish. I'm a teapot and I live in a rubber room.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Seriously? Do you really think the German voters give a shít about Enda Kenny? Do most of them even know who he is? I'm sure those that do couldn't care less about him anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Which part was 'stupid' and 'daft', please?

    The first part was stupid. The second part was daft. Both parts were "stupid and daft".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    All credit to navel-gazing and wanting to see an Irish connection in everything (and everyone) but linking a fleeting visit of an Irish election candidate to a loss in Hamburg elections ...that might be stretching it ...just a tad :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Seriously? Do you really think the German voters give a shít about Enda Kenny? Do most of them even know who he is? I'm sure those that do couldn't care less about him anyway.

    Believe me or not, the coming elections draw a certain interest in Germany, since Ireland is a well liked country in Germany. So the Germans know for sure, who Enda Kenny is ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    peasant wrote: »
    All credit to navel-gazing and wanting to see an Irish connection in everything (and everyone) but linking a fleeting visit of an Irish election candidate to a loss in Hamburg elections ...that might be stretching it ...just a tad :D

    Yes, we all know that it's really all down to a combination of Enda and sun-spot activity.:eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Believe me or not, the coming elections draw a certain interest in Germany, since Ireland is a well liked country in Germany. So the Germans know for sure, who Enda Kenny is ;)

    So, their leader likes Enda. That might help us when we come under severe pressure to surrender our low corporate tax rate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Believe me or not, the coming elections draw a certain interest in Germany, since Ireland is a well liked country in Germany. So the Germans know for sure, who Enda Kenny is ;)

    There will be posters up all over Germany showing his face, and warning people not to give him any money when he holds his hand out.


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