Would you vote for Fianna Fail in the next general election?

Daftendirekt · 25-01-2009 08:45PM #1

Curious to see see what the consensus is on Boards.

Is Fianna Fail's time finally up, or will the "Ah sure what alternatives are there?" attitude continue to prevail.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 25-01-2009 08:46PM

Daftendirekt wrote: »

Will Fianna Fail be voted in at the next election?

Probably.

The Mad Hatter · 25-01-2009 08:46PM

Daftendirekt wrote: »

Curious to see see what the consensus is on Boards.

Is Fianna Fail's time finally up, or will the "Ah sure what alternatives are there?" attitude continue to prevail.

The second thing. Almost certainly. People are dumb.

Sharpshooter · 25-01-2009 08:47PM

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always get in.

galwayrush · 25-01-2009 08:47PM

If enough inbred and blind to the facts ("vote as your daddy and grandfather did ") FF supporters emigrate, they will be booted out.

jhegarty · 25-01-2009 08:48PM

I can tell you one thing. The greens won't have one seat next time.

OctavarIan · 25-01-2009 08:48PM

Let me just put on my future telling hat...

Yes, they will be. Like 'The Mad Hatter' said, Irish people are dumb.

25-01-2009 08:49PM

I've never voted for fianna fail and never will. Why aren't the poll results shown?

DubLass · 25-01-2009 08:50PM

Fingers firmly crossed they wont be but a lot of people are of the "divil you know" opinion which has this country where it is today.

Riamfada · 25-01-2009 08:51PM

Ha Brian Cowen = Daftendirekt . Apt username. Fianna Fail using boards.ie to judge voters. Well it wont work due to the fact that what no one ever votes Fianna Fail they always seem to get elected. I put it down to the fact that Irish people are idiots. No Offence and also whats the alternative? New form of government ftw. What we need is one strong leader making laws without consultation to bring us into the future!

JangoFett · 25-01-2009 08:52PM

I think they will

People are blaming them for the state of the economy. The economy is in the state it's in because of a global downturn. People are going as far as placing all the blame on Cowen, it makes no sense.

Who else would we vote in? Enda fcuking Kenny? The biggest bitch on the planet? With practically NO experience of being in government? No thanks!

galwayrush · 25-01-2009 08:53PM

Results now shown. I am shocked that anyone would consider voting for FF after their decade plus of monumental **** ups the've managed..:eek:

Riamfada · 25-01-2009 08:55PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Results now shown. I am shocked that anyone would consider voting for FF after their decade plus of monumental **** ups the've managed..:eek:

Its not "will you vote FF" its "will FF be voted back in" . I think the Thread title and Poll title are causing confusion .I voted yes but meant no. I mean I voted no but meant yes. Wait are you sure Daftendirekt isnt Brian Cowen cause this is seeming more and more like a referendum the more I look at it.

galwayrush wrote: »

People are blaming them for the state of the economy. The economy is in the state it's in because of a global downturn.:

And nothing to do with building an country on an unsustainable property market?

galwayrush · 25-01-2009 09:02PM

Grimes wrote: »

And nothing to do with building an country on an unsustainable property market?

+
Quangos
HSE mess
Every project going vastly over budget
E-Voting
Even Berties make up bill would have fed a few families every week.(that makes him a bigger bitch than Kenny could ever be)

Daftendirekt · 25-01-2009 09:08PM

Grimes wrote: »

Ha Brian Cowen = Daftendirekt . Apt username. Fianna Fail using boards.ie to judge voters. Well it wont work due to the fact that what no one ever votes Fianna Fail they always seem to get elected. I put it down to the fact that Irish people are idiots. No Offence and also whats the alternative? New form of government ftw. What we need is one strong leader making laws without consultation to bring us into the future!

Umm... If you're implying I'm a Fianna Fail member, you're wrong. I don't support any of the political parties.

byte · 25-01-2009 09:09PM

Balls, I misvoted too, due to poll question being somewhat different to thread title.

I've been had by my hastiness

galwayrush · 25-01-2009 09:09PM

Now i understand the Education cut backs, keep the people ignorant and thick and they will continue to vote FF.

road_high · 25-01-2009 09:13PM

JangoFett wrote: »

I think they will

People are blaming them for the state of the economy. The economy is in the state it's in because of a global downturn. People are going as far as placing all the blame on Cowen, it makes sense.

Who else would we vote in? Enda fcuking Kenny? The biggest bitch on the planet? With practically NO experience of being in government? No thanks!

Did daddy tell you to say all that

lol

mikemac · 25-01-2009 09:17PM

Yep, I'd say they will and I've a sneaking suspicion that Michael Martin (can't type fadas

) will be next Taoiseach.

The Green Party will be decimated.

And for all those posting FF voters are dumb and only voting for family reasons, that's pretty arrogant imo!
Sure did you even vote as I'm remember so many threads on boards at the last election that' "I'm in college/work and now I can't vote on a Thursday, boo hoo..........."

Attack FF all you want, I'll even join you.
But don't call someone dumb just because you don't like their choice. Feckin childish!

Daftendirekt · 25-01-2009 09:17PM

JangoFett wrote: »

I think they will

People are blaming them for the state of the economy. The economy is in the state it's in because of a global downturn. People are going as far as placing all the blame on Cowen, it makes sense.

People are blaming them for the state of the economy, because they failed utterly to prepare this country for the downturn. Global recession or not, FF have not been helping matters.

JangoFett · 25-01-2009 09:22PM

mfitzy wrote: »

Did daddy tell you to say all that lol

No, actually paying attention to current events and realising what is actually going on told me to say that.

Great "boardsie" reply man.

And also, what could the government have done to prevent the global downturn affecting Ireland?

Daftendirekt · 25-01-2009 09:24PM

byte wrote: »

Balls, I misvoted too, due to poll question being somewhat different to thread title.

I've been had by my hastiness

Rats, I should've known that would cause some confusion. Results look promising so far though.

Bob the Builder · 25-01-2009 09:25PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Now i understand the Education cut backs, keep the people ignorant and thick and they will continue to vote FF.

Lol...

What people don't get is that Ireland becamer fat and ignorant during the celtic tiger. Instead of sitting on the back burner in Europe and taking all the handouts from the EU, we started pumping more and more resources into the EU and gave away all our fish, for what? a few euro for the farmers?

And whereas once upon a time, we had the likes of Whittaker in power, constantly promoting intrapreneurship and everyone knew what they were at. The only law enforcers were the unions - going on strike and what not.

Since 1997, we have simply throw money at everything that went wrong, constantly commissioning reports. So much now that there's rampant paedophiles in the clergy literally sexually abusing children and we're sitting on our hands waiting for .... a report?

We're throwing money at stuff and we dont even know what its for. All we know is there's a problem and we've been told we need a couple of million to fix it. We spent so long giving rights to people, and health and safety officers rampant all over the place and auditors here and there chasing after the little people - yet you have the likes of Sean Fitzpatrick and co. (ie. the financial regulator) just knit picking 100's of millions of people's deposits.

Why they ever put in a qualified barrister in as Miniter for Finance is beyond me. That ignorant fúckface couldnt even do his job as minister for children.

There is an alternative out there, but we're all so far up our own holes, and inbred from our grandparents that we've told Fianna Fáíl they have a God Given right to power. The alternative has been sitting on the backbenches for years. They've seen everything go wrong, and unfortunately the opposition are the only ones still in touch.

Biggins · 25-01-2009 09:28PM

Someone sad enough might put them back in.
Personally, I hope they are fcuking decimated along with the full of schite Greens!

R0ot · 25-01-2009 09:28PM

Better question would be, are the majority of voters still going to be ignorant to everything going on around them and vote the same way they always do regardless of policies, successes and failures of said party.... :pac:

Daftendirekt · 25-01-2009 09:29PM

JangoFett wrote: »

And also, what could the government have done to prevent the global downturn affecting Ireland?

Probably nothing. Better management of our own economy could have minimised the damage though.

My knowledge of economics leaves a lot to be desired, but hopefully someone else can tackle your question in more detail.

Ostrom · 25-01-2009 09:30PM

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

The second thing. Almost certainly. People are dumb.

Maybe so, but the people who should be voting (urban professionals, students - usual regular complainants) - dont

banshee_bones · 25-01-2009 09:32PM

i really really hope not but then again the voters in this country never seem to learn :rolleyes:

jaffa20 · 25-01-2009 09:33PM

Not another Fianna Fail thread

jaffa20 · 25-01-2009 09:35PM

byte wrote: »

Balls, I misvoted too, due to poll question being somewhat different to thread title.

I've been had by my hastiness

Same here. Meant to vote no but the thread title was misleading. So that makes the poll void.

Daftendirekt · 25-01-2009 09:36PM

jaffa20 wrote: »

Not another Fianna Fail thread

I know I know

.

I just noticed so much Fianna Fail bashing around these parts lately that I wondered whether people were finally going to turn on them.

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