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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,425 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    I was interested to hear of the unnamed Govt TDs who foolishly told Drive Time that they could "live with" the numbers in yesterdays protest. They dont ever get it, do they?


    Saturday January 31st is the day to make them all turn pale.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    Falthyron wrote: »
    4,588,000 = 100% population.
    3,645,520 = 79% of the population.
    57,000 = your estimate.

    3,645,520/57,000 = 1.56%. 1.56% of the 'available' or 'eligible' population turned out for the protest yesterday.

    i will refer you to my post on the previous page showing your lack of understanding on how numbers actually work in these situations.

    look at the actual turnout levels for previous elections and referendi and it may give you an idea to how these things work.

    if we were infact to go on your bizarre thinking, due to the lack of a majority compared to the actual voter turnout, FG probably wouldnt have a mandate to run a corner shop...

    luckily for them, your way of trying to twist numbers not widely accepted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    i will refer you to my post on the previous page showing your lack of understanding on how numbers actually work in these situations.

    look at the actual turnout levels for previous elections and referendi and it may give you an idea to how these things work.

    if we were infact to go on your bizarre thinking, due to the lack of a majority compared to the actual voter turnout, FG probably wouldnt have a real mandate to run a corner shop...

    luckily for them, your way of trying to twist numbers not widely accepted.

    70% of the electorate turned out for the general election in 2011.
    Electorate: 3,209,244. Turnout (valid vote / electorate): 69.19% (+2.79 compared with 2007). Invalid votes 22,817.

    Source: http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/Election2011.php

    I am not twisting numbers, it is simple maths. I took your numbers and worked out what percentage of the population that is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭falan


    Yeah there was no way yesterday had 27 times the amount of people in that picture. From the aerial view i had before heading down late to the protest. I'd guess it was close enough to 50K maybe. I've seen numerous protests from this view. Including the anti war one in 2003 and the last national protest in October. Yesterday's was way way smaller than the anti war one. And looked a fair bit smaller than the last anti water one. Anyone saying 100K is exaggerating the hell out of the figures.


    Anyone saying 30k is seriously underestimating figures. The government are trying to brush the issue under the carpet as usual. The protests were going on months before they were given any airtime. I saw loads of protest videos before the mainstream media reported it. The same has happened here. Since the new concessions have come in they are playing down there is a problem. It's a tactic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    Falthyron wrote: »
    70% of the electorate turned out for the general election in 2011.



    Source: http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/Election2011.php

    and yet they still couldnt get a majority.

    high turnout + lesser results = ?

    seriously? do you not understand?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,425 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    1,926,900 people had to work yesterday........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    and yet they still couldnt get a majority.

    high turnout + lesser results = ?

    seriously? do you not understand?

    They received 36.2% of all votes cast. They then formed a coalition, as they are entitled to do. They went up 8% on the previous general election.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    1,926,900 people had to work yesterday........

    I thought they were asked to take a holiday or a day of leave? Why didn't they?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    Daith wrote: »
    If a Guard tells you to move, the majority of Irish people will move.

    Do these "protesters" think they're immune to the Guards using physical force to move them?

    They're doing more harm to your cause than anything.

    It's worse than thinking they are above the law, they think they can enforce their own laws. Their facebook pages talk about them detaining, escorting, questioning and releasing workers and reporters. They love to talk about Gardai abusing their authority but the likes of Dublin Says No are abusing authority they don't even have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,365 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Falthyron wrote: »
    I thought they were asked to take a holiday or a day of leave? Why didn't they?

    Oh yeh, you're "impartial".

    hahahah

    :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,980 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    shinzon wrote: »
    what are you talking about, O Connell street isnt the only thoroughfare through Dublin, convenient for people yes, but are you seriously telling me the entire population of Dublin suddenly couldnt get anywhere cause there was a few gob****es sitting on a bridge, please spare me

    No one said the entire population of Dublin, I said hundreds of thousands (which would equate to a large percentage) were severely inconvenienced by the actions of a few gob****es.


    So im assuming you mean anything, you aren't saying reasonable force so guns would be ok to is that what your actually saying

    Shin

    Just LOL :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Oh yeh, you're "impartial".

    hahahah

    :pac:

    Could you direct me to a post that states I am pro-IW, anti-IW, please?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    Falthyron wrote: »
    They received 36.2% of all votes cast. They then formed a coalition, as they are entitled to do. They went up 8% on the previous general election.

    they had the support of 32% of 70% of the electorate (not popultion). they couldnt make a majority so they took labour in with them knowing that with a party whip system they could just do what they liked... especially as labour would have been looking VERY closely at what happened to the greens before them... unfortunately for labour they didnt look close enough.


    so we have 1 party in power with the backing of only 1/3rd of the electorate and another party propping up the numbers while their hands are tied behind their backs.

    great.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 103 ✭✭gene_slackman


    I'm sure you'll love this, but I can easily afford the water charges. I'm choosing not to though, because it's so easy to not pay it. They're not going to cut me off, the trickle threat is reversible, and I'll await them sending me to jail. Which isn't going to happen.

    so your one of those " wont pay " rather than " cant pay "


    people like you make life expensive for me and others


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,445 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Stop signing off your posts, we can clearly see who you are.

    'Bau


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    they had the support of 32% of 70% of the electorate (not popultion). they couldnt make a majority so they took labour in with them knowing that with a party whip system they could just do what they liked... especially as labour would have been looking VERY closely at what happened to the greens before them... unfortunately for labour they didnt look close enough.


    so we have 1 part in power with the backing of only 1/3rd of the electorate and another party propping up the numbers while their hands are tied behind their backs.

    great.

    That is how our democracy works, whether that is a good thing or bad thing, I don't know. They had more votes than any other party, therefore we must assume they have a greater claim to 'the will of the people' than any other party or candidate.

    That is a greater majority than the 1.56% who turned out yesterday. If only 1.56% turned out for a general election it would have to be organised again for another date, because that is deemed to be an inadequate number of representation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭joe swanson


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I was interested to hear of the unnamed Govt TDs who foolishly told Drive Time that they could "live with" the numbers in yesterdays protest. They dont ever get it, do they?


    Saturday January 31st is the day to make them all turn pale.

    I thought yesterday was going to be the start of the revolution lol

    Most decent people saw through the protesters yesterday, attacking gardai, ordinary going about their business and generally acting like thugs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    so your one of those " wont pay " rather than " cant pay "


    people like you make life expensive for me and others

    woah there!!! plenty of us wont pay for genuine reasons.

    i could afford it but i wont pay a penny to IW current incarnation. that certainly doesnt mean i have a problem with a charge for water and infrastructure.

    'wont pay because it's easy not to' is another cathegory of asshole altogether.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Endaaaagh


    Another protest in Jan? T'is all a bit Father Ted

    "Is there anything to be said for saying another mass protest. God I love saying mass protesting"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,365 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    so your one of those " wont pay " rather than " cant pay "


    people like you make life expensive for me and others

    There's a huge difference between "won't pay" and "won't pay Irish Water"


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 103 ✭✭gene_slackman


    zerks wrote: »
    They care about the country & it's people,not about the gangsters that are running it.

    the naivete


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    Falthyron wrote: »
    That is how our democracy works, whether that is a good thing or bad thing, I don't know. They had more votes than any other party, therefore we must assume they have a greater claim to 'the will of the people' than any other party or candidate.
    .

    and thats the crux of the problem.

    and you'll find that most of us go beyond a simple IW argument here. IW is/was a catalyst. the issues that are now being put about eclipse IW massively.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,980 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Endaaaagh wrote: »
    Another protest in Jan? T'is all a bit Father Ted

    "Is there anything to be said for saying another mass protest. God I love saying mass protesting"

    Half million expected at the next one, Facebook says that's what they are expecting so it must be true!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,445 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Half million expected at the next one, Facebook says that's what they are expecting so it must be true!

    I heard it was the entire population, even the newborns from the Coombe and Rotunda, and half of the American public.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭shinzon


    No one said the entire population of Dublin, I said hundreds of thousands (which would equate to a large percentage) were severely inconvenienced by the actions of a few gob****es.





    Just LOL :rolleyes:
    and if they refused then the guards should have used WHATEVER force necessary to move them

    Then you should phrase yourself better in future in all honesty

    And as regards yesterday all I can say is people must have poor planning skills, for a month or more it was known this was happening and in all likelihood a splinter group of idiots would try something like this so alternative routes should have been planned rather then coming on here and bitching and moaning about it on the day seems all rather disingenuous to me tbh

    Shin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,365 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Ah yes but this is the one that's going to matter!







    Like the last one and the one before and so on and so on... :pac:

    It's this attitude that has the Irish people fücked again and again... :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    and thats the crux of the problem.

    and you'll find that most of us go beyond a simple IW argument here. IW is/was a catalyst. the issues that are now being put about eclipse IW massively.

    Yes, but you must be realistic about the figures.

    Roughly 2,550,000 people voted in the last General Election. Of those 2,500,000 36.2% voted for Fine Gael, and another 19% voted for Labour. 36.2% = 900,000 people. They gave their vote to FG.

    Yesterday's 1.56% gave their vote as being anti-FG, etc. Are you suggesting the 36.2% have been reduced to less than yesterday's 1.56%? If not, then you have to see how insignificant 1.56% is in the grand scheme of things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭shinzon


    Ah yes but this is the one that's going to matter!







    Like the last one and the one before and so on and so on... :pac:


    Hmmm conveniently forgetting we scared the bejaysus out of them the last time and got all the concessions funny that.

    Shin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    Half million expected at the next one, Facebook says that's what they are expecting so it must be true!

    Only half a million? Selling themselves short, aren't they? I would expect no less than one million considering they had over 100,000 at the protest yesterday. :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    the naivete

    Naive compared to those who hand over money time after time to this government without question?

    Joan Burton on RTE saying it will cost €1 BILLION a year for the next 10 years for IW. They claim that charges are capped for now but the €10 billion will have to be found somewhere. And you say my post about protestors caring about the country & not the likes of Burton/Enda etc. is naive,anyone who thinks allowing this quango to carry on is naive in the extreme.


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