I got a sinn fein leaflet..

carzony

Telling me that 60% of people in my area are now unemployed :eek: in other words politicians aren't doing their jobs properly;);)

keelanj69

carzony wrote: »

Telling me that 60% of people in my area are now unemployed :eek: in other words politicians aren't doing their jobs properly;);)

Bet the printers in your area are doing ok though.

wicklowstevo

free toilet paper from the shinners , nice

kneemos

carzony wrote: »

Telling me that 60% of people in my area are now unemployed :eek: in other words politicians aren't doing their jobs properly;);)

You're area needs more drug dealers and diesel launder's.

losthorizon

keelanj69 wrote: »

Bet the printers in your area are doing ok though.

I doubt it. http://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-td-urged-to-come-clean-over-e50000-use-of-dail-printer-cartridges-367908-Feb2012/. (I know thats an old story!) And also isnt the uncle or the relative of one of the SF TDs a printer?

I assume they get public money for some of these leaflets so its going directly to them. ( ie the printer). I might be wrong about that though.

Chinasea

carzony wrote: »

Telling me that 60% of people in my area are now unemployed );)

more like 90% of Sinn Feiners/mé feiners don't work, never work/ed, will never work, don't want to work.

carzony

60% of people can't be right.......

Guy:Incognito

kneemos wrote: »

You're area needs more drug dealers and diesel launder's.

They cant get a look in. A certain paramilitary group have issued all the fanchises for the area already.

Dostoevsky

carzony wrote: »

Telling me that 60% of people in my area are now unemployed :eek: in other words politicians aren't doing their jobs properly;);)

And neither, clearly, are the people in your area. If they organised and threatened the support base of established political parties they would do much better, as a Dublin schoolteacher in Coláiste Eoin named Tony Gregory famously showed in 1982.

losthorizon

Dostoevsky wrote: »

And neither, clearly, are the people in your area. If they organised and threatened the support base of established political parties they would do much better, as a Dublin schoolteacher in Coláiste Eoin named Tony Gregory famously showed in 1982.

Tony Gregory put C Haughey in power. That was not a good outcome. Latest opinion polls in Dublin show Dublin people want a Sinn Feinn/ FF gov - what can one say.

Dostoevsky

losthorizon wrote: »

Tony Gregory put C Haughey in power. That was not a good outcome.

True overall. But he did great things for one of the most deprived constituencies in Ireland in that deal. It was at least decades overdue. By getting the vote out, he helped change that area.

losthorizon

While I think Gregory was a great politician I think Haughey in power was a disaster and that slimebag should have never been near the levers of power. He destroyed the country and Gregorys area as well indirectly.

yoloc

Does anyone think SF will ever get into government and if so, what do you think the outcome would be.

Pacing Mule

yoloc wrote: »

Does anyone think SF will ever get into government and if so, what do you think the outcome would be.

AH would go into total meltdown.

mikemac1

Gregory got 150 corpo jobs for maintenance workers and then 500 places in AnCo for his constituents. Cost 4 million punts.
Half a million on a leisure center, a quago setup for Dublin port and tens of millions on corpo housing.
Declared a hero

Get a bypass and nursing home in Kerry and you are a gombeen

If Sinn Fein says it then it must be true!

jimmycrackcorm

If 60% of people in my area were unemployed then I'd be moving out. Obviously a very unlucky area to live.

using taxpayers money to print leaflets to tell people people are unemployed

mary lou mcdonald really is the peoples princess

biko

Just ask 10 of your neighbours if they are unemployed.

Jimoslimos

mikemac1 wrote: »

Gregory got 150 corpo jobs for maintenance workers and then 500 places in AnCo for his constituents. Cost 4 million punts.
Half a million on a leisure center, a quago setup for Dublin port and tens of millions on corpo housing.
Declared a hero

Get a bypass and nursing home in Kerry and you are a gombeen

Very true. I'm from Dublin and it's always struck me as hypocritical to laud Gregory as a great politician and sneer at the likes of Healy-Rae. Parish-pump politicians the lot of them.

Iwasfrozen

yoloc wrote: »

Does anyone think SF will ever get into government and if so, what do you think the outcome would be.

Fire and brimstone.

Actually I've thought about it and I'd love to see SF in power. Especially with FF. How better to bring about the destruction of the party.

wicklowstevo

the shinners in power ? Jesus there's a scary though, every one over 16 will have to charge the walls of Buckingham palace or be shot for cowardice.


still I might enjoy their attitude towards criminal justice as long as it was implemented against their own members as well as everyone else , really crack down on the drug dealers and bank robbers wouldn't it not to mention smuggling and fraud.

Dyr

mikemac1 wrote: »

Gregory got 150 corpo jobs for maintenance workers and then 500 places in AnCo for his constituents. Cost 4 million punts.
Half a million on a leisure center, a quago setup for Dublin port and tens of millions on corpo housing.
Declared a hero

Get a bypass and nursing home in Kerry and you are a gombeen

Tell me more about the devastating poverty in tralee and killarney. Yerrah

scuba8

Bambi wrote: »

Tell me more about the devastating poverty in tralee and killarney. Yerrah

Do people on social welfare in Dublin get less then people in Kerry?
If not then someone in Dublin has the exact amount of money to live on as someone in Kerry. So how is one worse off than the other?

Iwasfrozen

scuba8 wrote: »

Do people on social welfare in Dublin get less then people in Kerry?
If not then someone in Dublin has the exact amount of money to live on as someone in Kerry. So how is one worse off than the other?

Higher cost of living in Dublin.

Wheelnut

mikemac1 wrote: »

Get a bypass and nursing home in Kerry and you are a gombeen

Only if you have the sand and gravel contract for the same jobs, allegedly.

BBDBB

send em one of your own leaflets that tells em you think that's bollocks

RobbingBandit

mikemac1 wrote: »

Gregory got 150 corpo jobs for maintenance workers and then 500 places in AnCo for his constituents. Cost 4 million punts.
Half a million on a leisure center, a quago setup for Dublin port and tens of millions on corpo housing.
Declared a hero

Get a bypass and nursing home in Kerry and you are a gombeen

Looking like Worzell Gummidge on Crack didn't help matters...

Jimoslimos

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Higher cost of living in Dublin.

I wonder why people don't move en-masse out into the country then?

Iwasfrozen

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I wonder why people don't move en-masse out into the country then?

Are you serious? Because they have no capital and are dependent on state housing.

Richard Hillman

They probably surveyed about 10 people and those 10 were active Sinn Fein members

scuba8

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Higher cost of living in Dublin.

I don' accept that. Someone living in a rural area has to use local shops for their groceries. They do not have access to Aldi's and Lidil's which would save a lot in the cost of groceries.
Don't mention the cost of a pint as that is discretionary and doesn't count.

awec

scuba8 wrote: »

I don' accept that. Someone living in a rural area has to use local shops for their groceries. They do not have access to Aldi's and Lidil's which would save a lot in the cost of groceries.
Don't mention the cost of a pint as that is discretionary and doesn't count.

The cost of living in Dublin is much higher than outside of Dublin.

delthedriver

Burn all their leaflets and help increase the greenhouse gases. I just want the current sunny weather to last until October.

On a less serious note, Sinn Fein always had a plan to Nationalise the Banks. There is no need for them in Government seeing as the Banks are already Nationalised

Funnily enough it was their Brothers in arms who kept robbing the Banks.

Finally it would be rather funny to send them your a leaflet of your own!

Iwasfrozen

scuba8 wrote: »

I don' accept that. Someone living in a rural area has to use local shops for their groceries. They do not have access to Aldi's and Lidil's which would save a lot in the cost of groceries.
Don't mention the cost of a pint as that is discretionary and doesn't count.

Are you really going to argue this? It's well known Dublin is the most expensive place in Ireland to live.

delthedriver

Richard Hillman wrote: »

They probably surveyed about 10 people and those 10 were active Sinn Fein members

Sure the Shinners have even less credibility than the other parties put together!

Not a lot!:pac:

kneemos

awec wrote: »

The cost of living in Dublin is much higher than outside of Dublin.

Not on the dole,you're spending consists of groceries and or fags and drink.

delthedriver

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Are you really going to argue this? It's well known Dublin is the most expensive place in Ireland to live.

Agree, some would even suggest Dublin is the most expensive city in the EU in which to live.;)

shruikan2553

yoloc wrote: »

Does anyone think SF will ever get into government and if so, what do you think the outcome would be.

*claps hands* Every time I clap my hands an IRA reference will be made

Jimoslimos

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Are you serious? Because they have no capital and are dependent on state housing.

The near unanimous population migration movements in this country (and most others) have been from rural to urban centres (cost of living notwithstanding).

Iwasfrozen

Jimoslimos wrote: »

The near unanimous population migration movements in this country (and most others) have been from rural to urban centres (cost of living notwithstanding).

A worldwide phenomenon and the result of globalisation to a large extent.

shruikan2553 wrote: »

*claps hands* Every time I clap my hands an IRA reference will be made

What's wrong with reminding people what SF are? Since they voted for them they've obviously forgotten.

Frank Lee Midere

awec wrote: »

The cost of living in Dublin is much higher than outside of Dublin.

The point he was making was that doesn't take into account the cheapness of groceries in aldi compared to a village shop. Which is a good point. The cost of living in Dublin affects workers - travel, rent or mortgage etc. all less important if that stuff is paid for. What's left is groceries and utility bills.

Gary Sprake

A 60% unemployment rate is very reminiscent of Sinn Fein's power bases in West Belfast and South Armagh where they have been in overall control for several decades now. Not a great endorsement of their job creation strategies then. Except in certain sectors like fuel supply and/or laundries which seem to be thriving.

OCorcrainn

Chinasea wrote: »

more like 90% of Sinn Feiners/mé feiners don't work, never work/ed, will never work, don't want to work.

You are confusing them with Fianna Fáil. Run along now back under your bridge like a good little lad.

OCorcrainn

Funny seeing all the usual hysterics and clichéd nonsense from our anti-SF local ranting party hacks, particularly Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Gilmoreites. :rolleyes:

Change the script guys it is getting very old . Sinn Féin is the fastest growing party in Ireland with over 20% support from people in Ireland and growing and will be the third biggest party in the next election.

The sooner you get over it the quicker you can stop being hypocrites.

Banjo String

Originally Posted by shruikan2553 *claps hands* Every time I clap my hands an IRA reference will be made

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

What's wrong with reminding people what SF are? Since they voted for them they've obviously forgotten.

What does that mean?

If you're going down the road I think you are, I think you should choose your next line carefully.

keeponhurling

That's how politics work., and how it always has been.

Opposition parties try to highlight how bad a job the incumbent government are doing.
They will seize on areas where the government is struggling, and hioghlight a figure such as 60% unemployment in a particular area.

conorhal

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Higher cost of living in Dublin.

See how far your free social welfare bus pass gets you in rural Kerry.

It all ballances out in the end and the notion that there isn't grinding poverty in rural areas is utterly incorrect, there is, and typically without access to the kind of services that alleviate it in urban areas.