Ruth Coppinger

Pat Dunne

Gaspode wrote: »

Folks can ye not discuss politics/politicians withou resorting to name-calling & slurs?
Honestly, you're making a show of yourselves.
Any more childish stuff & this thread is closed.

In all fairness this topic is nothing more than a Trolling expedition in the first place.

LoonyLovegood

I didn't give Ruth a vote for the Dáil or the Seanad, and a lot of it was to do with her campaign team. I'm involved in a different political party, and the second I said I was, I got "Do you not care about working class people, how can you do that?". Cop on, we care about a lot of the same things.

not yet

By some accounts I've heard, someone mentioned on this thread is a Landlord:eek::eek:

LorelaiG

jimmyrustle wrote: »

Reached out my hole. Listen, I know full well some of those at the protest aren't exactly the greatest and good of D15.

Regardless of that, the majority of them are living either in overcrowded parental households or, even worse, in black hole state schemes like HAP or long term social rental of private homes. They need somewhere to live and they need it now.

To suggest anyone who arrived in the country after these people joined the list should be handed brand new housing, in Dublin of all places, is obscene. It isn't just offensive to those on the list, it is offensive to people who don't qualify for the list, locals who have been forced out to Meath, Cavan, Westmeath to try and either gather a deposit, or maybe even never to return.

Ruth did infact reach out to the protesters, it was stated on their own group, so if you don't think that's factual good enough for you.

You don't need to explain to me about the dire situation out here, I live out here, in the estate where a lot of the protersters are from and I am stuck in a black hole state scheme such as HAP with the added bonus of my landlord selling his house so we are being evicted. Nobody was suggesting that anyone is able to skip the list, there's no proof that anyone IS skipping the list.

piplip87

There's room for socialist policies in this country. We should look after the sick and disabled better.

The problem with PBP and their policies is that they want to give everything for free yet have no sensible way of providing it. They want up corporation tax to 25% for example potentially killing of hundred of jobs.

It was no surprise to see them gain traction after 2008 as many people lost jobs and the free everything mantra sounds good when you are scraping by on 188 per week.

It genuinely does sound good until your back to work, paying tax and you realise the free everything mantra will benefit those who got dole sign up sheets for their 18th Birthday and haven't looked back since rather than the working person.

hardybuck

hardybuck wrote: »

Perhaps Ruth will reflect on her communication style and tactics. Imagine going into work with someone with a puss on them like hers everyday and listening to them moaning - you wouldn't want to be anywhere near them.

Her posters for the GE were hilariously bad. The week before the election I could see she'd become desperate because she'd put up ones about keeping a female representative in the area.

Apart from gender balance, there is a much better political balance in the constituency with the current lineup.

Imagine her walking into your children’s classroom to teach them!

hardybuck

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Imagine her walking into your children’s classroom to teach them!

Imagine the parent teacher meeting...

Zaph

LoonyLovegood wrote: »

I didn't give Ruth a vote for the Dáil or the Seanad, and a lot of it was to do with her campaign team. I'm involved in a different political party, and the second I said I was, I got "Do you not care about working class people, how can you do that?". Cop on, we care about a lot of the same things.

I'd never given her a preference in any election as I have no time for her at all. She's possibly the most negative politician I've ever come across, she just continually moans and rarely has anything positive to say about anything. However in the Seanad election I did actually give her a fairly high preference (even taking into account her hypocrisy of running for an institution she wanted abolished) simply because I thought she had a better chance of unseating Ronan Mullen than most other candidates. That worked out well. :rolleyes:

Ash.J.Williams

DaveCliftonAP wrote: »

Try some of the bigger ones.

brb

Murt10

A Knight of Ireland wrote: »

I do think that it was a massive mistake to use womens rights as a basis for a campaign as it would alienate any male voters.

Her entourage called around to my house canvassing about 3-4 days before the election and I ran them. I hadn't seen sight nor sound of her prior to that.

Her campaign made it quite clear that she only wanted to represent 50% of the population and as I wasn't in that 50%, so why on earth would I vote for her.

A few female voters (feminists) in the area I spoke to also voted against her for that specific reason. Not only did they not vote for her, they voted against her. This became apparent in the final flood of votes that transferred to Roderick rather than her.

If she couldn't seek a vote without resorting to such short sighted, childish tactics, none of us wanted her representing in the Dail under any circumstances.

PukkaStukka

Murt10 wrote: »

Her campaign made it quite clear that she only wanted to represent 50% of the population and as I wasn't in that 50%, so why on earth would I vote for her.

A few female voters (feminists) in the area I spoke to also voted against her for that specific reason.

The view above tally with with those I mentioned in my post previously. A few good decent ladies I work with were very put out with the bias in that campaign.