Are we better off since we got our new Govt?

Warper

Are we? To me it looks like nothing has changed at all, promises out the window straight away. If anything this current Govt. looks worse than the last, something i thought was impossible.

Sykk

More of the same

"We may be shíte, but at least we're not Fianna Fáil" - Inda Kinny

The_Minister

It's a bit early to be writing them off.

Besides, most what they have had to do so far is due to the policy corset they were left by the previous government.

I'm going to wait a while before I call for their heads.

thebigbiffo

More of the same

told yis - FF, FG, Labour, Greens, Sinn Fein...

all c'unts.

Wolfe Tone

We swapped Offaly for Mayo, what where we thinking.



More of the same simple as, we need a fundamental change, voting for a party whose only difference is that the founders supported the treaty was a stupid idea.

Only good thing about the last election is the increased amounts of independents, socialists and SF who will call the govt up at every turn.

ejmaztec

I don't think that anyone expected things to get better, they just wanted FF and the Greens gone. Next time, we'll expect FF, FG and Labour gone, and then there will be no-one left to run the country except 166 independents.

Vicxas

No change yet... im still not president of everything...

Overheal

You'll be better off and remain better off so long as people remain politically active and don't only wag their finger at politicians when something of scandalous interest hits the tabloid headlines.

mikemac

ejmaztec wrote: »

no-one left to run the country except 166 independents.

A bypass and hospital for every town in Ireland

ejmaztec

feelingstressed wrote: »

A bypass and hospital for every townland in Ireland

fyp:pac:

questionmark?

To be fair they havent being in power that long and considering the mess the country was left in by the previous idiots I'm giving this lot up to two years to start making a real difference. If they dont we are fecked at the next election lets all vote for Joe "Neo-liberal is the only term I know" Higgins or maybe let Gerry have a go.


EDIT: Poll should include I'm giving it a chance so none of the options there at the mo apply

ejmaztec

I hope that they do a good job, because idiots like this guy will blame us for fucking up the country again if they don't.

He's a miserable looking fecker, whoever he is.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0413/breaking15.html

Irish taxpayers 'should foot bank bill'

Irish taxpayers should not complain about having to bailout the country's crisis-hit banks and, in future, regulation should be steered at a European level, according to ECB executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi.
In an opinion piece in today's Financial Times, Mr Bini Smaghi said Ireland's taxpayers should foot the bill as they are the ones that benefitted during the pre-crisis boom years and elected the governments that regulated the banks as the problems built.

sensibleken

The difference that can be expected is only slight.

We have to remember that we are not an independent country anymore, Ruairi Quinn has been the only one with the balls to say so. Ireland has been reduced to the status of a county council that can have all these great ideas but unless the IMF and EU give the go ahead for the money to do it, its not going to happen.

thebman

No

Policy wise no major differences yet but time for that yet.

I do feel much more confident in this government to rule properly and without the corruption of our previous governments and they can admit the mistakes of the previous government and address those issues if possible.

Tipsy McSwagger

Way too early for any opinions on the new government.

Amirani

Any Government elected was always going to be severely restricted by the size of the bailout. There was never going to be any radical departure from what we had before.

Sea Sharp

The big decider will be the mini budget coming up.

mikemac

Sea Sharp wrote: »

The big decider will be the mini budget coming up.

Sorry, when is this?

Schism

No

It annoys me that people expected an immediate u-turn once a new government was elected. FG can't wave a magic wand and solve all our problems no more than FF, Lab, SF or anyone else.

We're in this for the long run now and we can only hope that our current leaders learn from the woeful mistakes of the last. That said I am happy to see the instigators of this mess turfed out.

PeterIanStaker

The new govt are only facilitating the FF strategy, whether they like it or not.

FF Strategy:

1. Ride the country into a mess that Thor/Odin/Chuck Norris couldn't fix.
2. Leave the opposition to deal with it.
3. Public gets angry at the new govt's attempts to clean up the mess that FF made. Public forgets who made said mess.
4. Public votes FF back in again.

Repeat steps 1 -4 decade after decade after decade . . . . . . .