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Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?

  • 23-02-2014 5:17pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭


    Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Shhh, they don't actually exist.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    No. There too ashamed to admit it usually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Well considering they represented quite a lump of the electorate for so long, I must have at some time.

    Not something I would retain or even enquire about when meeting somebody.

    I'm certain the people who have called canvassing for them over the years were FF supporters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Hope you don't actually think the rest of them are any better.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Unfortunately, my dad is one. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,583 ✭✭✭LeBash


    I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

    I just reported you. Hopefully a mod will ban you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

    Why? In another thread you're going on about the "astute and tempered" politicians in your adopted Germany yet you vote for cretinous populists when you return home. Seems contradictory.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Yeah I have. But I havent spoken to anyone that believes labour is doing a good job in Government. They have pretty much shat on most of their pre-election promises


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Bring back the party times.. vote Fianna Fail.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,461 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

    Bertie, should you not be in Fagans at this hour?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    coolbeans wrote: »
    Why? In another thread you're going on about the "astute and tempered" politicians in your adopted Germany yet you vote for cretinous populists when you return home. Seems contradictory.

    In Ireland we have little choice. FF are held up as some sort of boogeymen. Its nonsense. All throughout the boom, the opposition were calling for more tax cuts, more social programs, more reliefs for the property market.

    In my opinion FF is the party in Ireland that has generally had the more capable politicians. They are perhaps the best of a bad bunch.

    I also would more broadly agree with their social policies, than FG who are more conservative.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    In Ireland we have little choice. FF are held up as some sort of boogeymen. Its nonsense. All throughout the boom, the opposition were calling for more tax cuts, more social programs, more reliefs for the property market.

    In my opinion FF is the party in Ireland that has generally had the more capable politicians. They are perhaps the best of a bad bunch.

    I also would more broadly agree with their social policies, than FG who are more conservative.

    Agreed that our political class is of a very poor standard by western comparison but they are rightly held up as a bogeyman as they have .governed the country with some interruption since the beginning. They set the very low standard, particularly in the seventies and the eighties, that the others had to follow if they were not to see themselves obliterated by FF. That's why I have no time for them. Your 'they're all the same ' argument is pretty lazy and clichéd imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Yeah, I used to have relations with one until he revealed his dark secret. He has been permanently banned from my presence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭L'Enfer du Nord


    kneemos wrote: »
    Hope you don't actually think the rest of them are any better.

    That could actually be Fianna Fail's slogan at the next election. The others are better in so far as they haven't bankrupted the country twice whilst enriching themselves.

    I've barely met anyone who says yes 'I'm a Fianna Fail Supporter', but before the last election I met loads who said something along the lines of 'I'll be voting for Sean, we always do' - Sean being the latest FF Scion that 'we' (the voter and their entire family) always vote for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,926 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    vitani wrote: »
    Unfortunately, my dad is one. :(



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    coolbeans wrote: »
    Agreed that our political class is of a very poor standard by western comparison but they are rightly held up as a bogeyman as they have .governed the country with some interruption since the beginning. They set the very low standard, particularly in the seventies and the eighties, that the others had to follow if they were not to see themselves obliterated by FF. That's why I have no time for them. Your 'they're all the same ' argument is pretty lazy and clichéd imo.

    Can't blame someone else for your own actions.It always amazes me why they don't adopt muchhigher standards it would be a massive vote winner and lead the way for all political parties.Presumably they're so entrenched in their ways they're incapable of changing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    wazky wrote: »
    Shhh, they don't actually exist.

    That's what they want you to think,stupid!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    woodoo wrote: »
    Bring back the party times.. vote Fianna Fail.

    HAHA....love it. :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    kneemos wrote: »
    Hope you don't actually think the rest of them are any better.

    You can always spot a FFer - the reference to 'the rest of them' ...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    my friend wrote: »
    You can always spot a FFer - the reference to 'the rest of them' ...

    Well do you think ''The rest of them'' are any better? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,909 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I voted FF in the past, the old man was FF all his life but I chop and change, have voted SF the last few times.

    I despise Labour and would never vote for them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

    And some day you may link emigration with Fianna fails mismanagement of the economy for their own self enrichment - FF bankrupted Ireland in an attempt to protect their pals, and you'll vote for them again?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    I despise Labour and would never vote for them.

    Ah labour the party that appears to run on pure spite. I dont blame you.


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


    I know a few FF faithful fanatics. Combined, their IQ wouldn't add up to a lot, thankfully there morons are dying out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    I despise Labour and would never vote for them.

    +1000


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭granturismo


    jetsonx wrote: »
    Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?

    Yes, what do you want to know?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    galwayrush wrote: »
    I know a few FF faithful fanatics. Combined, their IQ wouldn't add up to a lot, thankfully there morons are dying out.

    Nice post,You came across as a real nice guy. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    FF, FG.. there's no real difference. One ran the country into the ground, the other sealed the deal and has perhaps the worst Taoiseach we've ever had - not to mention their fondness for dipping their hands in your pocket by abusing Revenue.

    We don't have a REAL alternative in this country. People won't vote SF (forgetting that the other parties are hardly any better) and the Independents are mostly the worst examples of parish pump shyte that we really need to get away from.

    Given the choice next time though I'll probably vote FF as FG outright lied to get into power, are just as incompetent and shady as FF (as the current scandals illustrate), and are just so arrogant that they deserve an electoral hiding - though just as their predecessors did I fully expect the leadership to "retire" or feck off to Europe rather than face the voters!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    Kaiser2000 wrote: »
    FF, FG.. there's no real difference. One ran the country into the ground, the other sealed the deal and has perhaps the worst Taoiseach we've ever had - not to mention their fondness for dipping their hands in your pocket by abusing Revenue.

    We don't have a REAL alternative in this country. People won't vote SF (forgetting that the other parties are hardly any better) and the Independents are mostly the worst examples of parish pump shyte that we really need to get away from.

    Given the choice next time though I'll probably vote FF as FG outright lied to get into power, are just as incompetent and shady as FF (as the current scandals illustrate), and are just so arrogant that they deserve an electoral hiding - though just as their predecessors did I fully expect the leadership to "retire" or feck off to Europe rather than face the voters!

    I agree completely with this post,Right down to the last letter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    This post has been deleted.

    And that's the problem.. not that you're voting FF, but that your electing a national politician based on how well he looks after YOU, when you should be looking to local councillors (of which there are plenty!) for that.

    No wonder the national political arena is such a mess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    Kaiser2000 wrote: »
    And that's the problem.. not that you're voting FF, but that your electing a national politician based on how well he looks after YOU, when you should be looking to local councillors (of which there are plenty!) for that.

    No wonder the national political arena is such a mess.

    All politics in Ireland is local though! We have about the same population as Birmingham.


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


    I got married into a family of FG supporters and I regret it :mad:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    Kaiser2000 wrote: »
    And that's the problem.. not that you're voting FF, but that your electing a national politician based on how well he looks after YOU, when you should be looking to local councillors (of which there are plenty!) for that.

    No wonder the national political arena is such a mess.

    The poster you quoted gave a perfectly legitimate reason for his vote,Yet you dare question him and then blame him in part for this countries political mess... :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Lol at the FG supporters giving out about FF supporters.

    #same****differentday


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I tend not to associate with moronic idiots.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    This post has been deleted.
    Please say you're on a wind up.

    That's what councillors are for, people like you shouldn't be allowed to vote.


    The amount of ****e posted in this thread...Study some history. It's like a revolving door to some people, think that's going to help?


    I have no party affiliation btw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Well do you think ''The rest of them'' are any better? :D

    Yes, based on all the available evidence. The government of 2011-present is, unfortunately, the best since 1997. Not a high bar to set, but there you go.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    All politics in Ireland is local though! We have about the same population as Birmingham.

    Ireland's population is almost double that of Birmingham.


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


    Ireland's population is almost double that of Birmingham.

    I think he meant greater Birmingham, West Midlands ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    coolbeans wrote: »
    Agreed that our political class is of a very poor standard by western comparison but they are rightly held up as a bogeyman as they have .governed the country with some interruption since the beginning. They set the very low standard, particularly in the seventies and the eighties, that the others had to follow if they were not to see themselves obliterated by FF. That's why I have no time for them. Your 'they're all the same ' argument is pretty lazy and clichéd imo.

    Agreed. That one is getting fairly old at this point.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    galwayrush wrote: »
    I think he meant greater Birmingham, West Midlands ..

    Ireland's population is still about a million more than "Greater Birmingham" that would include Nuneaton, Wolverhamton and Coventry. Total comes to about 3.6 million, Ireland's is about 4.6m.

    Just annoys me a bit when people pluck these falsified statistics out of thin air to add some weight to their point. The poster didn't even need to do it here, I agree with his general point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    jetsonx wrote: »
    Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?

    Yes, numerous :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Ever, OP?

    Silly question, given that they were in power for more than a decade before the current government.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Every vocal fianna fail supporter I've met has a been a fine example of all thats wrong with this country


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    My granny worships Dev and won't hear a word spoken against him, centre of the most repetitive argument ever between her and my dad for last 20+ years.

    A friend of mine used to canvas for Micháel Martin and tried to recruit me. A friend of my dad was a committee man and tried recruit him.

    They're not as quiet about it as you'd expect once they get to know you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    Two of my college lecturers are very happy to admit that they are life long FF voters.

    One of them is even a life long member!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    I am a FF supporter and proud of it

    And I cant wait till they are back in power with SF as junior coalition partner


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    pajor wrote: »
    Two of my college lecturers are very happy to admit that they are life long FF voters.

    One of them is even a life long member!

    You make its sound like its some sort of sordid cult they're in!

    FF are historically the largest party on this island!


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