Why vote for FG?

omg a kitty

Is anyone here voting for FG. And if yes, why?
Out of all the people I asked so far, most of them just saw the media focusing so much on FG and Enda Kenny and automatically assumed they were the best option and that everyone else is voting for them. Is anyone here doing the same thing??

wolfpawnat

omg a kitty wrote: »

Is anyone here voting for FG. And if yes, why?
Out of all the people I asked so far, most of them just saw the media focusing so much on FG and Enda Kenny and automatically assumed they were the best option and that everyone else is voting for them. Is anyone here doing the same thing??

I think they have single handedly screwed it up for themselves by allowing their more hair brained social and economical ideas come out the week of the election! Hopefully they will not get the majority they were scheduled for! As you can see I will not be voting for them!

I think people are voting for them because they are not FF and because people are not looking into their manifesto properly. Because no lower middle class or working class person would vote for them otherwise!

m.kelly

No chance of FG getting a vote off me. They have a poster that says they'll get Ireland back working and to go to website for 5 point plan. They forget to mention this is a new website that was designed and built in Miami,Florida.Great example for them to set. Then there's the plan to sell semi states like ESB that are actually making money for the goverment. We'll have nothing left and no jobs if they get in.

Buceph

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Because no lower middle class or working class person would vote for them otherwise!

Do you really think people are solely interested in what benefits they receive or taxes they pay. A lot of people have a much more holistic view of the democratic process. A friend of mine would typify the demographic moving to the ULA, and he can recognise their policies as lunacy. He's not motivated by who will give him the most, but what will make the most of the entire country.

darragh16

I can't say I will be, just after speaking with one of their canvassers there a few mins ago and that didn't help their cause to get my vote.

As mentioned, I think the media have chosen them as natural successors to the throne, but they themselves have been very smug and arrogant in the past few weeks. They have some good plans, but I don't think they're as well thought through as they should be. Selling off profitable state assets doesn't seem like a good idea. The health reform seems (don't want to sound like Micháel Martin) like a soundbyte. This 5-pt plan just seems a bit flawed the more I read into it!

imme

omg a kitty wrote: »

Is anyone here voting for FG. And if yes, why?
Out of all the people I asked so far, most of them just saw the media focusing so much on FG and Enda Kenny and automatically assumed they were the best option and that everyone else is voting for them. Is anyone here doing the same thing??

posters on Boards are easily led, OP;)
how very dare you:D

there has been a deal of media attention which has roved beneficial to them. likewise media attention on alternative parties hasn't resulted in improved poll numbers.

Of course the GE will separate the adults from the children, as it were

wolfpawnat

Buceph wrote: »

Do you really think people are solely interested in what benefits they receive or taxes they pay. A lot of people have a much more holistic view of the democratic process. A friend of mine would typify the demographic moving to the ULA, and he can recognise their policies as lunacy. He's not motivated by who will give him the most, but what will make the most of the entire country.

Yes I want the country to get out of recession, but what good is it out of recession to me if I have no place to raise my child and food for his stomach! How can you say they will do well for the country? Privatising everything they can and looking after the rich!

I know that may seem a bit selfish, but I just want enough to survive, and I barely have that as it is! So FG would slaughter the likes of me. My leanings are extreme left, but I will be voting Labour!

omg a kitty

And yes the media seems to be sure FG will be in government, especially RTE.
And that 3-way debate on RTE tuesday night. I don't see why Michael Martin was invited at all, the chances are the Greens their junior coalition partner will get more seats than them.
All FG has been talking about for the past week is they "5-Point plan"

Pete_Cavan

omg a kitty wrote: »

Is anyone here voting for FG. And if yes, why?

I will be voting FG for the following reasons;

1. They are being honest and are serious about cutting our grossly over staff yet under performing public service, everyone else knows big cuts will have to be made but wont admit it before the election
2. NewEra , they want to spend money on infrastructure that will actually create jobs, not stimulus packages which only create short term jobs that rely 100% on state funding to sustain them (state funding that cant last)
3. FreeCare, the HSE is a blackhole and despite the huge sums of money we throw at it we still extremely long waiting lists. No amount of reform can fix the HSE, it needs to be done away with and start afresh
4. They favour cuts over taxes, more taxes will only increase the cost of doing business here which will cost us more jobs
5. Noonan, Bruton, Reilly, Coveney, Varadkar, they have a number of people who know what they are talking about in their own area. Enda may not be the most impressive Taoiseach but he will have the best ministers backing him up
6. They are the only party capable of forming a single party government with the power to make the necessary decisions without them being watered down

Soldie

Of all the parties' plans for economic recovery, Fine Gael's is the least bad. Their social conservatism irks me, and Enda Kenny is an uninspiring leader, but, at the moment, the economy is the only game in town.

corkkitteh

I will not be voting for FG for two main reasons.

FG want to bring in a graduate tax for students in third level education. This means that upon graduation students will have a debt of between €12,000 - €15,000 to pay once they begin earning. This will discourage people from going into third level and thus will decrease the highly skilled workforce needed to grow this economy again.

FG also want to cut 30,000 jobs in the public sector over the next 4 years. 12,000 of these are from natural wastage - retirement etc but the other 18,000 have not been accounted for. Enda Kenny stated on the six one new yesterday that the cuts would not affect front line services. Bryan Dobson asked Enda Kenny a number of times for a figure on the number of public servants who are not in the front line service bracket who would be subject to these cuts. Enda kept dodging the question thus showing Fine Gael have not done their homework and their 5 point plan is mostly unrealistic.

douglashyde

Sein Fein are a bunch of dreaming loopers - favored mainly by those in the world that feel they have been mistreated differently someway.

Labour are to pro-trade union (yes it is a bad thing) and to socialist in my view.... Great in theory, but never going to work.

And that's why I'm voting Fine Gael 1 , FG 2

quodec

I will be voting for Fine Gael because:
1) I'm a traditional Fine Gael voter
2) Of the current parties they have, by far, the best team to bring forward a set of coherent policies (5 Point Plan).
3) Sick and tired of FF thinking that they're a 'movement' and have a God given right to run Ireland - as if no one else can!! So totally ABFF.
4) I'm a civil servant and know that in certain areas of the civil/public service there are just too many employees with not enough/no work for them. At least FG will do something about this.
5) Because this thread seems to be full of posters who wont be voting FG!!

Headshot

just a quick question

FG mention about improving the broadband infrastructure. So what will be done ?

omg a kitty

Soldie wrote: »

Enda Kenny is an uninspiring leader.

Yes but a good orator
Wasnt a the last taoiseach we had a brutle leader and a good orator??
How did that go down by the way?:rolleyes:

omg a kitty

Headshot wrote: »

just a quick question

FG mention about improving the broadband infrastructure. So what will be done ?

Being Fine Gael, I think youre gonna have to read their "5 point plan" to find out.
I think theyre tryin to hide stuff, they dont explain much of their policies on TV debates and they just say go on to their website and read their manifesto and they know most people arent going to read the whole thing and will be convinced theyre the best option

th3 s1aught3r

omg a kitty wrote: »

Is anyone here voting for FG. And if yes, why?

YES
They are the best option available imo