Bye George!!

RoadKillTs · 08-02-2010 02:28PM #1

George Lee has resigned from Fine Gael. That didnt last too long. Wonder will he go back to the RTE.

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Cookie_Monster · 08-02-2010 02:30PM

if only the rest of them would do the same.

Fair play to himn for not sitting there and putting up with all the ****e

RoadKillTs · 08-02-2010 02:35PM

Ya true. He obviously wasn't allowed to be heard. In fairness they were only using him as a bit of a poster boy.

ScumLord · 08-02-2010 02:36PM

I don't know whether to be disappointed he didn't last longer but I can understand how the current political system would make you dispare once you realise there's nothing you can do to fix it when your towing the line and playing by the rules.

Kalimah · 08-02-2010 02:41PM

Well bloody hell. What a waste of all those votes he got. I voted for Alex White and was disappointed he didn't get in.

RoadKillTs · 08-02-2010 02:44PM

I thought he would have lasted longer than 9 months allright.

Reginald P. DuM · 08-02-2010 02:49PM

He should of lasted longer in fairness.. If he went into politics thinking he could change its ways he was deluded. He'll end up back mouthing on RTE. He should never get a job with public money again.

Morlar · 08-02-2010 02:52PM

That's a shame. At least he kept his integrity.

Buford T Justice · 08-02-2010 02:54PM

RoadKillTs wrote: »

George Lee has resigned from Fine Gael. That didnt last too long. Wonder will he go back to the RTE.

Link

Fair play to him for sticking to his guns and leaving....

I'd say TV3'll have him

Sulmac · 08-02-2010 02:55PM

He was elected in June and expected to be playing some sort of senior role within Fine Gael by now, basically.

Celebrity or not, that's a hell of an ego.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 08-02-2010 02:59PM

In the statement, he thanked everyone who helped him but says he would not be serving the electorate honestly if he were to continue in office.

Thats fair enough - I wish there were more politicians like him...

brianthebard · 08-02-2010 03:06PM

Sulmac wrote: »

He was elected in June and expected to be playing some sort of senior role within Fine Gael by now, basically.

Celebrity or not, that's a hell of an ego.

agree 100%, just because he had some sort of 'profile' before being elected did not entitle him to be seen as a senior member of the party from day one. What did he think would happen, he'd get elected once and bump Richard Bruton out of the finance spokeperson position? Reeks of petulance.

08-02-2010 03:06PM

RIP Boy George

TitoPuente · 08-02-2010 03:10PM

Sulmac wrote: »

He was elected in June and expected to be playing some sort of senior role within Fine Gael by now, basically.

You're obviously just speculating. He was offered a front bench position when he handed in his resignation and refused it.

ejmaztec · 08-02-2010 03:10PM

Sulmac wrote: »

He was elected in June and expected to be playing some sort of senior role within Fine Gael by now, basically.

Celebrity or not, that's a hell of an ego.

Celebrity or no, he still had a lot more vote-gathering power than many of the FG non-entities that he was sitting alongside. It was probably the egos of these people that kept him outside the loop.

08-02-2010 03:12PM

Sulmac wrote: »

He was elected in June and expected to be playing some sort of senior role within Fine Gael by now, basically.

Celebrity or not, that's a hell of an ego.

Or, he had leave of absence from RTE for a year and will walk back into a job there.

Who knows?

Sulmac · 08-02-2010 03:12PM

TitoPuente wrote: »

You're obviously just speculating. He was offered a front bench position when he handed in his resignation and refused it.

I wasn't aware of that, I haven't looked into the details yet. Thanks, though!

Choke · 08-02-2010 03:12PM

This has to be the end of Kenny.

FG just released a book (or rather, a supporter did) trying to detail how great Enda is as a leader - with a big mention of Lee in one chapter.:D

The FG spindoctors will be out in force trying to discredit Lee, just as they did with Lucinda Creighton when she stood up to him, but I doubt it will work this time.

North_West_Art · 08-02-2010 03:14PM

Id say he can see whats coming, and hes gone and done a 'Bertie' on us

DamoDLK · 08-02-2010 03:16PM

Morlar wrote: »

That's a shame. At least he kept his integrity.

Hardly, quitting a hard job is not that of a man of Integrity, he pledged to sever his electorate and he has failed them.

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Fair play to him for sticking to his guns and leaving....

I have to say i'm quite disgusted that he didn't last longer. These are not commendable actions of a public servant.

Richard Bruton is FG's spokesperson on Finance - Lee probably felt that within FG he is playing second fiddle and only a background figure.

RoadKillTs · 08-02-2010 03:17PM

Update from RTE site

'I don't know 100% what I am going to do now...I think I will be probably going back to RTÉ.'

candlegrease · 08-02-2010 03:18PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

if only the rest of them would do the same.

Fair play to himn for not sitting there and putting up with all the ****e

I hope you're joking. The man is an absolute tool.

Sulmac · 08-02-2010 03:19PM

Another thing of note is that Lee's constituency, Dublin South, had three FG TDs (Shatter and Mitchell - two very high profile FGers). It is very doubtful they would have been able to hold these three seats; I wouldn't be surprised if he was left out by more senior members who felt threatened by his popularity.

More than likely that seat is going to Alex White of Labour (if the government ever decide to hold a by-election - they have yet to hold one in Donegal South West), and I wish him well - he seems like a very good politician and a decent man.

It'd be a complete joke of RTÉ's so-called "neutrality" if Lee went back to his cushy number there.

ejmaztec · 08-02-2010 03:24PM

If any political party doesn't make the best use of its TDs, it may as well just give up. It just proves again that there's no real opposition to the current crooks in power, which is more than a shame.

ScumLord · 08-02-2010 03:31PM

DamoDLK wrote: »

Hardly, quitting a hard job is not that of a man of Integrity, he pledged to sever his electorate and he has failed them.

I have to say i'm quite disgusted that he didn't last longer. These are not commendable actions of a public servant.

Richard Bruton is FG's spokesperson on Finance - Lee probably felt that within FG he is playing second fiddle and only a background figure.

I've been swayed and have to say your right. He campaigned and made promises, 6 months isn't a long time to settle into a new job either. He made promises to people and didn't stay the course so I guess that makes him no better than other politicians that don't follow through on their promises.

ejmaztec · 08-02-2010 03:36PM

ScumLord wrote: »

I've been swayed and have to say your right. He campaigned and made promises, 6 months isn't a long time to settle into a new job either. He made promises to people and didn't stay the course so I guess that makes him no better than other politicians that don't follow through on their promises.

The difference being that they're all still on the gravy-train getting paid for pretending that they're keeping their promises.:P

DamoDLK · 08-02-2010 03:41PM

ScumLord wrote: »

I've been swayed and have to say your right. He campaigned and made promises, 6 months isn't a long time to settle into a new job either. He made promises to people and didn't stay the course so I guess that makes him no better than other politicians that don't follow through on their promises.

Thats what annoys me the most, while he was canvassing for the election, the electorate knowing him as 'that chap from the news' who 'knows a lot about finance stuff' and that he 'must know how to get us out of the mess' etc etc. He had used his "fame" (and I hate saying that - because it was his job in RTE) to dupe the electorate into voting for him, with no doubt hollow promises. Now that things are not going the way he had hoped, his response is to give up!?

The world of Politics is not a damn country club.

DamoDLK · 08-02-2010 03:44PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

The difference being that they're all still on the gravy-train getting paid for pretending that they're keeping their promises.:P

No, sorry, the difference is that they're still there, doing what they can.

I will not defend the actions/inactions of reining politicians this is for another forum/thread and is in my opinion OT

deisedude · 08-02-2010 04:11PM

He acted like a spoilt child and threw a wobbly when he didn't get his own way. We are better off without the likes of him in office. Who goes into a new job and expects to have a significant say in 9 months? He must have some ego. Hop back on your segway George and feck off:mad:

Choke · 08-02-2010 04:14PM

DamoDLK wrote: »

No, sorry, the difference is that they're still there, doing what they can.

I will not defend the actions/inactions of reining politicians this is for another forum/thread and is in my opinion OT

He went in thinking he could change things for the better, by being in Fine Gael.
Turns out that no he couldn't, that he was just a face for a poster, and to give FG the PR boost of winning a bi-election.
The people of his constituency voted for him so that FG could utilise his economic knowledge, they had no intention of doing so, so he left.

Choke · 08-02-2010 04:19PM

deisedude wrote: »

He acted like a spoilt child and threw a wobbly when he didn't get his own way. We are better off without the likes of him in office. Who goes into a new job and expects to have a significant say in 9 months? He must have some ego. Hop back on your segway George and feck off:mad:

Sorry, but that is so wrong.

He was elected as a TD by the people of his constituency. There is nothing in the constitution that says he has to wait three years before he gets a say. He represents them the second he is elected.

He ran on the basis that he would get a say in running the country (and FG made it clear that they wanted his experience), so he naturally resigned when that turned out not to be the case.

Bye George!!

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