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what will fine gael do in government

  • 27-02-2011 12:08am
    #1
    tommy89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭


    can someone tell me what the fine gael government will be about? will they be keeping the new minimum wage. maybe more cuts to social wellfair. what are their views? cant say i follow politics closely


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  • #2
    will1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭will1977


    tommy89 wrote: »
    can someone tell me what the fine gael government will be about? will they be keeping the new minimum wage. maybe more cuts to social wellfair. what are their views? cant say i follow politics closely

    The same as FF :(


  • #3
    colsmiff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭colsmiff


    THey will get into Leinster House and receive a phone call from the ECB/IMF: " Congratulations, this is what we want you to do....."


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    colsmiff wrote: »
    THey will get into Leinster House and receive a phone call from the ECB/IMF: " Congratulations, this is what we want you to do....."

    True but you forget the "bend over" bit too from them coming. :D


  • #5
    gcgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    Same status quo as before , why can't they just fire the big shot civil servants that basically made the bad decisions over the last 14 yrs, ministers to me are just figure heads for depts, if these people worked in a private company they would be fecked out on their ear,


  • #6
    gcgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    Biggins wrote: »
    True but you forget the "bent over" bit too from them coming. :D

    I ant using lube either


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  • #7
    yoshytoshy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    Fine gael don't have as big of pockets as fianna fail ,so we should get extra mileage out of them.


  • #8
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    tommy89 wrote: »
    can someone tell me what the fine gael government will be about? will they be keeping the new minimum wage. maybe more cuts to social wellfair. what are their views? cant say i follow politics closely

    Precisely what the Department of Finance tells them to do. And until they tell the ECB/IMF Ireland is going to default, they'll of course be doing exactly what they are told to do by them.

    No change from Fianna Fáil, in other words.

    Except one thing: they'll try to fulfil their immoral bribe to the misguided people who purchased houses/gambles big and lost during the boom. They'll do this because they'll hope to keep the votes of this section of society.


  • #9
    wurzlitzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭wurzlitzer


    more of the same...
    maybe with more transparency..

    fire some civil servants...piss them off...= strikes
    sell ESB, maybe some more strikes
    piss off students may bringing the fee tax= riots
    make irish not compulsory...

    another hung dail after two years in power with labour


  • #10
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    wurzlitzer wrote: »
    more of the same...
    maybe with more transparency..

    Given that Varadkar refused to name the business people who attended a Fine Gael fundraiser last week, I wouldn't hold my breath looking for difference from Fianna Fáil on this either.


  • #11
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    This election result will start a cycle of parties getting power for one term and then losing power, being unable to implement real change at national level, a return to some form of opposition, maybe Sinn Fein. Fiannan Fail and some indos....... and back again to Fine Gael/ Labour combo a few times and then people will get fed up and give up......

    It may happen that a regional of government will take over and the EU setup will get stronger as well so that the elections that matter in the future will be county or province level elections and EU elections, in line with the size of elections in India, China, And the U.S which will form the nuclei of future economic blocs in the world.

    Nation states as we have known them, formed on the basis of language, religion and geographic mountain or sea boundaries will be gone, replaced by economic blocs competing on a world stage for some form of dominanace.


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  • #12
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    That would be one good thing. If they could dilute the Irish language requirement to one of a combination of music( which I'm good at ) Dance ( which i''m useless at) and poetry/ literature ( which I'm also useless at) and have a larger Aural element rather that written ( I'm a bloody parrot, I can pick up accents and tones fairly readily......) then I would say we have a winner.....

    The present system of Irish Language instruction, being hammered for mistakes in and almost unlearnable grammar, I find too onerous as it is.


  • #13
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    gcgirl wrote: »
    I ant using lube either

    By the time Europe is finished draining us, we'd be lucky to afford it anyway! :(


  • #14
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    they have a 5 POINT PLAN to make everything rosy again, don't you know


  • #15
    tommy89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭tommy89


    doesn't seam to be a lot of good news so


  • #16
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    Have 2 pints at home with me dinner.

    Have 3 pints of Guinness listening to some good tunes in my local.......

    Thats a REAL 5 pint plan..........


  • #17
    NickDrake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭NickDrake


    tommy89 wrote: »
    can someone tell me what the fine gael government will be about? will they be keeping the new minimum wage. maybe more cuts to social wellfair. what are their views? cant say i follow politics closely

    So the FF are out already. Give it up. Time for change. Ye had your chance.


  • #18
    NickDrake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭NickDrake


    doolox wrote: »
    Have 2 pints at home with me dinner.

    Have 3 pints of Guinness listening to some good tunes in my local.......

    Thats a REAL 5 pint plan..........

    Drink myself stupid in the Dail bar.

    Drink with Anglo AIB and BOI . Credit card behind the bar.

    Oh wait country is destroyed.

    Ah well might as well take my €100k a year pention and retire.

    NOW THATS a PLAN.

    OUT with FF SCUM


  • #19
    Dean820
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Dean820


    Why were Fine Gael voted in if they are more of the same as FF? I don't get it.


  • #20
    Trampas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,987 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Dean820 wrote: »
    Why were Fine Gael voted in if they are more of the same as FF? I don't get it.

    Cause people wanted to vent their anger at FF. So if FF said yes voter said no and I believe a lot of people voted on people with no idea why they voted for them because it wasn't FF.

    FG and Labour can do what they want and just blame FF for the reason why they did it.


  • #21
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Dean820 wrote: »
    Why were Fine Gael voted in if they are more of the same as FF? I don't get it.

    FF electioneering propaganda. They knew FG were their biggest threat. They knew FF themselves were "toxic". So, as an election tactic they put it out there that FG are the same as FF hoping some of their sh1t would stick to FG. In other words, FF ran a negative campaign as they knew they'd no positive points about themselves to big up.

    The electorate thankfully didn't fall for it.


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  • #22
    meglome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    I am truly and utterly sick of the 'they are all the same' shíte. I don't expect politicians to be perfect but a bunch of untrained chimps couldn't get it as wrong as FF. I keep hearing that FG will be as bad but no real explanation as to why that is so. People seem to forget that FG went against benchmarking in 2002 (you know the thing that all the money was píssed away on) and the electorate nearly wiped them out. Which led to everyone promising everything in 2007. It's very clear to me we've been getting the governments we deserve but not because they are all the same.


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