Move over Green Party.

tayto lover

Shove over Greens and P.D.'s and make room for Labour on the benches of history.

Bye bye Labour.

ToddyDoody

Are they heading off into the sunset?, is my excellent first post

mickydoomsux

tayto lover wrote: »

Shove over Greens and P.D.'s and make room for Labour on the benches of history.

Bye bye Labour.

The Green Party have candidates running in Fridays election

kneemos

Local elections are always anti Government.

bumper234

tayto lover wrote: »

Shove over Greens and P.D.'s and make room for Labour on the benches of history.

Bye bye Labour.

You do.realise they will.still be in government for another 2 years right? :rolleyes:

tayto lover

mickydoomsux wrote: »

The Green Party have candidates running in Fridays election

Yes but as a party they are fecked.;)

Phoebas

mickydoomsux wrote: »

The Green Party have candidates running in Fridays election

Eamon Ryan has a reasonable chance of an EU seat in Dublin.

griffdaddy

Sounds like the perfect opportunity for Lemon Party to make their move

wp_rathead

Greens actually might do quite well on Friday....

Labour gonna face the brunt though

Banjo String

mickydoomsux wrote: »

The Green Party have candidates running in Fridays election

Maybe they can be the next junior partners when labour inevitably jump ship/walk away from the coalition so.

Eamon might not have a job as leader come Monday night/Tues morning.

Shanley

Time to move on

c_man

Phoebas wrote: »

Eamon Ryan has a reasonable chance of an EU seat in Dublin.

Jaysus.

RayM

Phoebas wrote: »

Eamon Ryan has a reasonable chance of an EU seat in Dublin.

Their candidate in the South constituency, Grace O'Sullivan has an outside chance too.

tayto lover

griffdaddy wrote: »

Sounds like the perfect opportunity for Lemon Party to make their move

Or an Irish branch of the Monster Raving Loony Party.

(or have we already got those in power?)

c_man

Shanley wrote: »

Time to move on

Facebook's lawyers are tracking you down as we speak. Run.

buyer95

Good riddance! A socialist party that isn't even socialist, who needs them!

MRnotlob606

to hell with them

godtabh

Shanley wrote: »

Time to move on

Back by the moral high ground and well thought out economic strategies. What could go wrong?

kneemos

Banjo String wrote: »

Maybe they can be the next junior partners when labour inevitably jump ship/walk away from the coalition so.

Eamon might not have a job as leader come Monday night/Tues morning.

If I never hear Eamonn Ryan's smug opinions and crackpot ideas ever again it'll be too soon.

Banjo String

Shanley wrote: »

Time to move on

Well, that's what one labour candidate probably heard today.

Phoebas

The Green Party probably took a disproportionate share of the blame for the mistakes of the last government - they must be looking in amazement at FFs resurrection.

Elmo

You know if the PD's had any candidates I don't anyone would give them as much stick as the Green's get. The PD's did far more to destroy this country in their 10 +years in government. The last leader is even a Junior Minister in the Current Government.

Is Noel Grelish still a TD?

c_man

kneemos wrote: »

Local elections are always anti Government.

Well who do you think will do worse relatively speaking, Labour or FG?

Arthur Beesley

I've read numerous ****e threads, I have even started ****e threads. As such I feel qualified to assess the relative ****eness of this particular thread.

Careful consideration has confirmed my initial assessment. This is a ****e thread.

Heroditas

Elmo wrote: »

You know if the PD's had any candidates I don't anyone would give them as much stick as the Green's get. The PD's did far more to destroy this country in their 10 +years in government. The last leader is even a Junior Minister in the Current Government.

Is Noel Grelish still a TD?

Yes but he's an independent, isn't he?

tayto lover

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

I've read numerous ****e threads, I have even started ****e threads. As such I feel qualified to assess the relative ****eness of this particular thread.

Careful consideration has confirmed my initial assessment. This is a ****e thread.

Yes indeed but what would be a fitting parting tribute to Labour?
How about a Fr Jack one i.e. Feck off.

kneemos

c_man wrote: »

Well who do you think will do worse relatively speaking, Labour or FG?

Labour voters are probably less conservative so will opt for shinners and independents I'd imagine.

Chinasea

kneemos wrote: »

If I never hear Eamonn Ryan's smug opinions and crackpot ideas ever again it'll be too soon.

Could you give an example please?

Elmo

Heroditas wrote: »

Yes but he's an independent, isn't he?

Are there any Green Indo's? There one FF Indo and one PD Indo. I surprised he didn't join FG along with Ciaran Cannon.

Hootanany

Why the hate for Labour FG are the real Monsters.

theKillerBite

Phoebas wrote: »

The Green Party probably took a disproportionate share of the blame for the mistakes of the last government - they must be looking in amazement at FFs resurrection.

The Green Party was a disaster in Government & for the country. Worse than FF.

http://cdn2.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25184995.ece/580d1/ALTERNATES/w620/child_pa

c_man

Yeah, can't see too many SF - FG transfers




Anyways, back on topic. Gilmore for taoiseach! :pac:

Elmo

theKillerBite wrote: »

The Green Party was a disaster in Government & for the country. Worse than FF.

http://cdn2.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25184995.ece/580d1/ALTERNATES/w620/child_pa

Come on, there were far more children in FF and the PDs

EyeSight

The greens were awful! Don't ever want to see them back.
Their solution to everything was adding another tax

kneemos

Chinasea wrote: »

Could you give an example please?

His smugness or crackpot ideas?
Tax on fossil fuels which has helped contribute the massacre of trees in all parts of the countryside as people look for affordable alternatives
The Godforsaken eyesores that are wind farms.
I know there's more,can't think at the moment.

Amirani

kneemos wrote: »

His smugness or crackpot ideas?
Tax on fossil fuels which has helped contribute the massacre of trees in all parts of the countryside as people look for affordable alternatives
The Godforsaken eyesores that are wind farms.
I know there's more,can't think at the moment.

So stuff that they do in pretty much every other country in the world? Sure are crackpot ideas.

Reformed Character

tayto lover wrote: »

Shove over Greens and P.D.'s and make room for Labour on the benches of history.

Bye bye Labour.

And good riddance.

tayto lover

kneemos wrote: »

His smugness or crackpot ideas?
Tax on fossil fuels which has helped contribute the massacre of trees in all parts of the countryside as people look for affordable alternatives
The Godforsaken eyesores that are wind farms.
I know there's more,can't think at the moment.

Increase in carbon taxes caused the price of petrol and heating oil to rise considerably.

Phoebas

kneemos wrote: »

His smugness or crackpot ideas?
Tax on fossil fuels which has helped contribute the massacre of trees in all parts of the countryside as people look for affordable alternatives
The Godforsaken eyesores that are wind farms.
I know there's more,can't think at the moment.

Favouring renewables over fossil fuels? The bastards :mad:
:pac:

c_man

kneemos wrote: »

His smugness or crackpot ideas?
Tax on fossil fuels which has helped contribute the massacre of trees in all parts of the countryside as people look for affordable alternatives
The Godforsaken eyesores that are wind farms.
I know there's more,can't think at the moment.

Something with his flip-flopping on Shell2Sea and Tara? Wasn't that a thing iirc? Actually what do current Green supporters here think about those?

wp_rathead

theKillerBite wrote: »

The Green Party was a disaster in Government & for the country. Worse than FF.

Worse than FF?

Seriously?

You are saying the Green Party were WORSE than Fianna Fáil?

tayto lover

RecordStraight wrote: »

Oops

Show me the post please.

RecordStraight

wprathead wrote: »

Worse than FF?

Seriously?

You are saying the Green Party were WORSE than Fianna Fáil?

Yes, worse than rampant corruption and epic mismanagement, not to mention blowing the boom by throwing money at every problem rather than actually fixing anything.

The Greens had some wacky ideas. That's far worse.

Elmo

In '09 The Green Manifesto was consider to be one of the best by a number of leading economists. They went into government after years of over inflated house prices and bad economics. Like The Labour Party they should have stayed clear of government with FF or FG.

The Labour Party are in a much worse position, they clearly have more power than The Green's had with far more TDs yet they still seem to be following FG in ever step that they make.

Reformed Character

wprathead wrote: »

Worse than FF?

Seriously?

You are saying the Green Party were WORSE than Fianna Fáil?

Yup, FF were like an alcoholic driving a merc through rush hour traffic at speed, and the Greens were the passenger feeding them whiskey but claiming no responsibility for the consequences.

super_furry

theKillerBite wrote: »

The Green Party was a disaster in Government & for the country. Worse than FF.

http://cdn2.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25184995.ece/580d1/ALTERNATES/w620/child_pa

That's just a daft claim. Fianna Fail destroyed the economic sovereignty of this country over the course of a decade.

The Greens gave people half-priced bikes and tried to stick up some wind farms.

theKillerBite

tayto lover wrote: »

Increase in carbon taxes caused the price of petrol and heating oil to rise considerably.

...and gas & electricity bills and thus everything else in the country making us more uncompetitve at a time were we were hemorrhaging jobs. They want to stall the growth of the country on the farce that is wind energy.

Their budget proposals include:

• a site tax (tax on agricultural land)
• increase in tax on agricultural diseal
• increase in capital taxes to 35% (a tax on savings and investments)
• increasing the carbon tax (a tax on everything)
• tax pension entitlements
• levy of €50 on the "Free" Travel Pass
• Cancel all road capital projects

RecordStraight

upyores wrote: »

Yup, FF were like an alcoholic driving a merc through rush hour traffic at speed, and the Greens were the passenger feeding them whiskey but claiming no responsibility for the consequences.

Your analogy rather falls down in that there were ten times more Fianna Failures in government than Greens. And the fact that nearly the whole cabinet and the Taioseach were Fianna Failure.

And that the Greens weren't giving any alcohol to anyone.

I wouldn't vote for them, but let's not try to blame the Greens for Fianna Failure bankrupting the country.

kneemos

Diego Simeone wrote: »

So stuff that they do in pretty much every other country in the world? Sure are crackpot ideas.

His want to cover the midlands with hideous wind turbines to supply the British with their
renewable quota.
Cracked as cracked thing.

Elmo

upyores wrote: »

Yup, FF were like an alcoholic driving a merc through rush hour traffic at speed, and the Greens were the passenger feeding them whiskey but claiming no responsibility for the consequences.

In fairness the PDs where feeding FF the champagne, the Green's were in the cycle lane. At least The Green's had the guts to fight an election. Many in FF and the PD suddenly decided to retire, or simply run as independents.

wp_rathead

upyores wrote: »

Yup, FF were like an alcoholic driving a merc through rush hour traffic at speed, and the Greens were the passenger feeding them whiskey but claiming no responsibility for the consequences.

FF were more the guy drinking and driving, pulls over and lets the Greens in passenger seat, hands them a can of dutch gold which the Greens chug as wanted to be in car for ages, FF continues on driving- sees the cops in rearview mirror, pull over- tell the Greens to get in the driver seat, Greens (being lightweights and drunk of 1 can) do what they told and when cops come they both arrested but FF get lighter sentence while Greens life ruined forever