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March 8th - What’s your vote? **Mod Note In Post #677**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,955 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Voting NO for both

    Government are so out of touch with the normal every day people of our nation ,

    Leo has to be the most disliked politician in the country since about 2019 , that a 5 year run



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭tom23


    Voting NO for both

    The country is sick and tired of FF/FG. We are now sick and tired of the cult that’s is the green party with their bulshit left liberal and green nonsense that just costs taxpayer every time they have a around the table chat with their NGO of the month.


    And that bring us on to the opposition. Sinn Fein. **** me… morphing into Fianna Fáil as each week passes. Soc Dems, a party of Aodhan O’Riordains, raging at every thing that moves. Crying with pity and going to save the downtrodden and alienated of the world.


    Menawhile cost of living and the usual trying to get by seems to mean little to them.


    What i’d give to be a heartless bollox and own a D hotel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,494 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Voting YES for both

    I think a more appropriate comment is that you are sick of all of them. The specific parties you listed attracted 76% in the latest opinion poll from March 2nd.

    Also, Aodhan O'Riordain is in Labour, not the Soc Dems...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭tom23


    Voting NO for both

    i’m very well aware of where Aodhan, thanks very much labour / soc dems? what’s the difference? both irelevant, both enraged by all the ills of the world. everyone is far right if they don’t share their exact viewpoint. Their stance on immigration alone shouldn’t have them anywhere near office.

    But yes Im sick to the back teeth of them all. I dont care what polls say 76% or 176% I dont care. We’ve just spent well over 23 million in a referendum that no one really wanted.


    But yet i know of children with autism that don’t have a school place for september because there’s not this and there not that…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,574 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Well, thats the end of her. At least O'Dea kept his head down (i think) until today, this one was actively campaigning for something she didnt believe in. The only thing worse than being a liar and a hypocrite is the public catching you red-handed being a liar and a hypocrite.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Voting NO for both

    lol Best 23 million euros ever spent. The snakes are literally trying to eat each other, on full show. Hopefully this keeps up.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭Peter Flynt


    Voting NO for both

    It's interesting to not that the same small cabal of people (inside their Official Ireland bubble) who tried to get mothers removed from the constitution are now going to use the whip system in Dáil Éireann to pass THEIR bill on what THEY define as hate speech.

    These people are fascists and would have removed women from the constitution long ago if a referendum were not required.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭KevMayo88


    Voting NO for both

    If anything, I think the referedum will see renewed interest in the government pushing on with the hate speech nonsense. They will want it in place before the GE to counter and stifle any kind of online discourse whereby candidates could be criticized, mocked and lampooned. You calling Leo an idiot online? Guilty!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭gym_imposter


    Well the recent referendum campaign has shown they are incapable of winning the battle of ideas so silencing opposition is a logical step



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Voting NO for both

    That's twice she's been caught red handed (remember her and timmy Dooley)

    I can't believe I actually voted for this woman once upon a time.Swiftly kicked out as a TD by the people of Mayo last time round Michael Martin gave her a soft option in appointing her to the Seanad.Now she's looking for another handy number as an MEP.

    I was hoping she wouldn't get it and this would be the end of her in politics, looking good for that outcome now.

    Are there any decent young politicians out there at all?

    Post edited by HBC08 on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,494 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Voting YES for both

    She's looking for a role where she doesn't need the vote of the general public by running to be an MEP where she needs to first be elected by the general public?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭KevMayo88


    Voting NO for both

    If the vote had gone Yes/Yes, would Lisa Chambers have come out on national radio and claimed she still voted No/No because of her deep held concerns? I doubt it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,494 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Voting YES for both

    That's not my point. I was just highlighting the illogical comment that she's looking for a role where she doesn't need the vote of the public but that role is specifically one they needs to be voted in.

    I have no time for Lisa Chambers or her politics, but can we at least be logical with comments?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,038 ✭✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Voting NO for both

    ...

    Post edited by SuperBowserWorld on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Voting NO for both

    Apologies, I had that wrong and amended post accordingly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,461 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Voting NO for both

    They genuinely thought the international women’s day angle was going to be some sort of celebration point for the electorate. You can scarcely begin to describe how out of touch they are - their whole thought process revolves around these kind of cheap photo opps



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭foxsake


    Voting NO for both

    they are clearly out of touch and this clarifies what many suspected ,

    they do live in a bubble of media darlings and politically focused NGOs

    But it galls me that TDs/Senators didn't break ranks - cos I can imagine many rural TDs don't inhabit the NGO / Media bubble... where was their backbone.

    after the fact is no good. that actually even worse makes them look like rats deserting a sinking ship



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,409 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Leo et al thought they would get some poses with Mna na H’ Eireann after they were so good to us , then swan off to the USA to promote themselves .

    Well that backfired spectacularly and they got smacked down by a very very pissed off public .

    No Leo we are not stupid we knew exactly what you were trying to do and said No .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,769 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Voting NO for both

    Oh look... colour me surprised (not!)

    In a note to Minister for Finance Michael McGrath, officials contrasted the “strive” wording with proposals – which were not accepted – for “reasonable measures” to provide care: “In summary this option is intended to avoid a concrete and mandatory obligation to provide support as opposed to the previous ‘reasonable measures’ language.”.

    Now we know why they didn't want to release the details of these meetings in advance. All the things that people here were concerned about were certainly not unfounded as it turns out.

    Right decision made by the people last week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,461 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Voting NO for both

    Leo and his “immigrant” anecdote about St Patrick is truly nauseating shite. We have to get rid of this prick asap. And I used to support him and FG 100%.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,461 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Voting NO for both

    Maybe im mad but I am still basking in their defeat last Friday. I’ve really savoured the result and the pathetic reactions and squirming this week from them. It’s fairly evident they didn’t see it coming or expected it- certainly not when they planned it months ago on International Women’s day. It can’t be stressed how out of touch they are.

    They’re really in trouble in June. I certainly will be not voting for any establishment parties or government this June in either election. Not even local cllrs I think do an ok job. There has to be a clear out



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,461 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Voting NO for both

    All through covid it was an authoritarian nightmare - we were treated like criminals with absolutely no dissent allowed. I haven’t forgotten all that rubbish



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭tom23


    Voting NO for both

    let’s hope it’s not a meaningful election for mickey, leo and cabbage ryan.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,461 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Voting NO for both

    Yes they’re badly in need of a “New Normal” to chew on



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭Eibhir


    Voting NO for both

    I agree with all you say. Just I wish we had some sort of credible alternative.



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