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Another General Election???

  • 11-01-2009 07:06PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭


    So the leader of the labour party is calling for a general election, and predicts it would be a Fianna Fail Labour coalition.


    What do you think?

    Given all the animosity with regard to our current government do you really think that Fianna Fail would be re-elected???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    I ****ing hope not


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    Fianna Fail need a new mudguard then?

    They've certainly ate up the Greens. Labours turn for a hammering.

    do you really think that Fianna Fail would be re-elected???

    Yes. Tragic as it is, civil war politics rule the roost still in some backwaters :pac: The idea of voting for Fine Gael would make some people sick, and vice versa. I know this sounds old-fashioned and out-dated, but the 'My da's da was in Fianna Fail and bejaysus' stuff still exists. The backlash from the medical cards fiasco remains to be seen. I've also been wondering if there'll be a protest vote from students over the upping of the registration fee, not impossible.

    I don't partake in general/local/european elections, but as a political junkie I hope ones on the cards because its just fascinating to watch the circus!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    ah you say that now but when you are in the polling booth will you change your mind??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    Yes. Tragic as it is, civil war politics rule the roost still in some backwaters :pac: The idea of voting for Fine Gael would make some people sick, and vince versa. I know this sounds old-fashioned and out-dated, but the 'My da's da was in Fianna Fail and bejaysus' stuff still exists.



    You see THAT is the stuff that scares me, people will bitch away about how sh!te our government are but when it comes to the crunch they dont have the balls to vote any differently than they have always done...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Not a chance in hell I'd vote for FF, I never have.

    But they will 100% get back in, people in this country are stupid.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Why have an election when all we need is another civil war. It would more cost-effective.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    It would more cost-effective.
    What would Fine Gael attack the republicans with, the British need all the big-guns for Iraq surely?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I ****ing hope not

    Couldn't have put it better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    PrivateEye wrote: »
    What would Fine Gael attack the republicans with, the British need all the big-guns for Iraq surely?

    They could use wedgies to finish each other off and leave the rest of us to come up with something new.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭tommmy1979


    So the leader of the labour party is calling for a general election, and predicts it would be a Fianna Fail Labour coalition.


    What do you think?

    Given all the animosity with regard to our current government do you really think that Fianna Fail would be re-elected???

    hmm... Gormley predicted the same thing.... FF-Labour coalition.

    I reckon FF have lost interest and need to be replaced for that reason at least.

    FF-Labour would probably be the best.

    T


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    General erection...lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Why have an election when all we need is another civil war. It would more cost-effective.

    Not a civil war, but a revolution of the mind, the creation of a liberation praxis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I don't want to see FF back in power in my lifetime for the way they squandered the boom and effectively managed to **** this country up for many years to come.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Since FF has managed to drag this country down the toilet, it will take a lot of time and hardship to repair the damage. I'd like seeing the idiots squirm for a little longer rather than listen them being in opposition blaming an innocent political party for their feckups.
    Give them a litle longer, then turf them out for good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    Holsten wrote: »
    Not a chance in hell I'd vote for FF, I never have.

    But they will 100% get back in, people in this country are stupid.



    well then why bother having another election so!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Yay, another chance for the old biddies to 'keep the Government in power'. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Well if FG and Enda are running this country I'm out of here till they are gone!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    any party that would go into gov with FF is writing their own death sentence, i cant believe any party would still want too. If anything i would have though Labour would distance themselves from FF.

    I cant see FG wanting an election, they wouldn't know what to do if in power, there just about as clueless as FF. If there was an election, SF might make a big(ish) gain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Slightly OT but does anyone think we will ever have a single party government in the short/medium term or does our current pr system make this very unlikely.

    If we can have a FG/Labour combination or FF/Labour combination, suggests that their is little or no difference between any of them policy wise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Damo9090 wrote: »
    Well if FG and Enda are running this country I'm out of here till they are gone!

    You're happy with what we have?:eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭LEIN


    galwayrush wrote: »
    You're happy with what we have?:eek:


    Better than what we could have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Damo9090 wrote: »
    Better than what we could have.

    That is funny, it's not possible to have worse than we have at the moment.
    Look at the corruption, overspending, quangos, housing bubble bursting, FF tent at the Galway Races, e voting, bertiebowl, a tunnel built too low, every project going to cronies and all coming in over budget,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭LEIN


    galwayrush wrote: »
    That is funny, it's not possible to have worse than we have at the moment.
    Look at the corruption, overspending, quangos, housing bubble bursting, FF tent at the Galway Races, e voting, bertiebowl, a tunnel built too low, every project going to cronies and all coming in over budget,


    Do you honestly Enda and FG can do better? All they know how to do is moan and disagree with what others say!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Damo9090 wrote: »
    Do you honestly Enda and FG can do better? All they know how to do is moan and disagree with what others say!

    I remember FF being very vocal in their moaning and disagreement when they were last in opposition.:rolleyes: I don't see Enda as a leader in fairness, but yet, he couldn't be as indecisive as Cowan. Richard bruton does look competent though, but he would probably be needed in finance, Lenihan and Coughlan are like a bad joke. Yes, anything would be an improvement.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    ok so if theyre all just as bad as one another and no type of coalition will yeild any results


    WHAT THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    if this general election DOES actually come to light! like somebody has to be in power so who??? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Me! ftw :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    ok so if theyre all just as bad as one another and no type of coalition will yeild any results


    WHAT THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    if this general election DOES actually come to light! like somebody has to be in power so who??? :)

    Same as last time we had a change, a FG coalition picks up the pieces and sets the foundation for recovery, then FF get back in and claim the glory and blow the lot.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭heybaby


    The only viable government in a decidedly impoverished political landscape is a fine gael labour coalistion with gilmore as taoiseach. To even conceive of any government with the Fianna Fail malignancy at its heart would be to drag us deeper into the abyss. I think people are sufficiently disenchanted with FF at this stage, I mean they have been in power 24 of the last 26 years (if im a year or two out on this forgive me), they rode the crest of the wave, that was the celtic tiger, which they failed to see comng in the first place and which they subsequently failed to see ebbing away. During which they lavished themselves and their vested interests (builders/ developers / vintners / bankers) and squandered away billions on utterly useless projects and a bloated behemoth of a public service. Ireland on the back of the most celebrated of economic times is now officially bankrupt.. The people that put us in this position almost to a man have got away with it.. What is it about the Irish psyche that we allow ourselves to be treated with such disregard? Do we not have any passion, do we not have a voice other than that begrudging one we so willfully utter down the pub on a saturday night. The french would have been marching in the streets long ago. Now before you start with the whole France thing, I know things arent perfect there but at least they have a quality healthcare service and a more than adequate infrastructural system. My point is, we just lie back in this country and take it, we always have, whatever muck is thrown at us we take it, we might whinge , but we take it. People need to take the blinkers off, to simply vote for FF because their father did and their father's father before him is utter nonsense.This is blind loyalty and completely flawed. At the start i said a fine gale laobour coalition was the only alternative. I say this because it genuinely is, without FF in the equation. Gilmore is the more intelligent, articulate and passionate in comparison with enda kenny, who i wouldnt put in charge of an under 5's football team. If there is an election soon can we please cut the umbilical cord between the electorate and FF forvever please, its only once we do this can we then begin to make our way back to the light.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Heres my idea.
    I think we should become an anarco-sydicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week.We make decisions by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs but by a two thirds majority in the case of international affairs.

    Bloody peasants


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭JMSE


    If only it was possible to do like an ostrich for 4 years, cryogenics for me and my family, head for the red planet backpacking, anything other than this, going from bust to boom and back again, with a SHOWER of humans still running the place, is there not a program writer somewhere that could create a piece of software to replace TDs, capable of spotting when an economy is going tits up, capable of adding so as to do away with the Dept of Finance, only written by someone other than the e-voting machine progammer!!!!


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