How Long will This Farce of a Government last?

Ledger · 20-01-2011 12:32PM #1

In light of recent desertions in the last 24 hours, what d'ya reckon?

danniemcq · 20-01-2011 12:33PM

Too long

iPlop · 20-01-2011 12:34PM

Ledger wrote: »

In light of recent desertions in the last 24 hours, what d'ya reckon?

They will cling to power until March 24th until (some) are eligable for pensions

sellerbarry · 20-01-2011 12:34PM

As long as people keep voting em in.

Pherekydes · 20-01-2011 12:36PM

Where's the option for 2012 (end of the year)?

jimthemental · 20-01-2011 12:36PM

I voted Guinness because you really couldn't guess, plus this will be a decision making tool for certain.

chin_grin · 20-01-2011 12:36PM

danniemcq wrote: »

To long

Where's long?

Ledger · 20-01-2011 12:36PM

It's a complete joke at this stage. I thought Frank Gallagher was shameless like, these lads are on another level

Rubik. · 20-01-2011 12:36PM

As long as the greens let it, the election is probably going to be on the 25th of march.

danniemcq · 20-01-2011 12:40PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Where's long?

knew i was gonna get that wrong

PeterIanStaker · 20-01-2011 12:57PM

unfortunately it seems they'll shamble on for a month or two yet.:rolleyes:

shofukan · 20-01-2011 01:00PM

Atari Jaguar > Guinness

The_Minister · 20-01-2011 01:04PM

We now have a cabinet that could meet in a cabinet.

_feedback_ · 20-01-2011 01:06PM

The_Minister wrote: »

We now have a cabinet that could meet in a cabinet.

Or in a cupboard

We're all going to long lads waheeeey.

th3 s1aught3r · 20-01-2011 01:07PM

Whats going on today
Some kind of a walkout ?

FatherLen · 20-01-2011 01:09PM

im glad most people have voted for guinness....

th3 s1aught3r · 20-01-2011 01:18PM

Best thing for the country is that Government collapses this afternoon, we have a snap election and FF get anihilated

Although I lost faith in the Irish electorate when I heard some of the people from Cowens constituency saying he was a 'great Taoiseach' and 'doing a good job'. I worry that parish pump politics people will still vote for FF when they get into the voting booth :mad:

Donal Og O Baelach · 20-01-2011 01:19PM

I'm getting in early and predicting the backlash against the backlash against Fianna Fail, (the forward lash if you like).

I think Cowen will weather the storm.

After 8 months of hearing FF ministers break into hysterical laughter as soon as he leaves a room, Gormley will eventually bail out sometime in September, but..

Enda Kenny - in the greatest case of "Bottling it" since the foundation of the state - will be so scared of actually becoming Taoiseach, that he will go into coalition with FF.

Thats what I think will happen anyway.

Pauleta · 20-01-2011 01:23PM

I think Cowan will resign today and we will have to wait until FF elect a leader for an election.

Ledger · 20-01-2011 01:25PM

Pauleta wrote: »

I think Cowan will resign today and we will have to wait until FF elect a leader for an election.

You joking me? he's too pigheaded to resign.

th3 s1aught3r · 20-01-2011 01:26PM

Pauleta wrote: »

I think Cowan will resign today and we will have to wait until FF elect a leader for an election.

This is a mess. What do we look like to the international audience?. We must look like complete idiots incapable of running a country

Rubik. · 20-01-2011 01:30PM

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

This is a mess. What do we look like to the international audience?. We must look like complete idiots incapable of running a country

Well we are incapable. the IMF is here.

Donal Og O Baelach · 20-01-2011 01:31PM

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

This is a mess. What do we look like to the international audience?. We must look like complete idiots incapable of running a country

Who cares what we look like to them? Lets sort ourselves out for ourselves.

th3 s1aught3r · 20-01-2011 01:35PM

Donal Og O Baelach wrote: »

Who cares what we look like to them? Lets sort ourselves out for ourselves.

who cares?
Well what about foreign companies who were thinking of investing here and are looking at todays events. They might be having second thoughts now

Big Vern · 20-01-2011 01:35PM

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

Best thing for the country is that Government collapses this afternoon, we have a snap election and FF get anihilated

Although I lost faith in the Irish electorate when I heard some of the people from Cowens constituency saying he was a 'great Taoiseach' and 'doing a good job'. I worry that parish pump politics people will still vote for FF when they get into the voting booth :mad:

This will happen all across the country....

SEPT 23 1989 · 20-01-2011 01:39PM

Big Vern wrote: »

This will happen all across the country....

They wont get a seat in Dublin

irishgeo · 20-01-2011 01:46PM

i cant see it lasting till the end of the day.

the greens have to pull the plug now.

dark crystal · 20-01-2011 02:00PM

irishgeo wrote: »

i cant see it lasting till the end of the day.

the greens have to pull the plug now.

But they won't. They are just as out of touch and power hungry as Fianna Fail are. They know they have little hope of hanging on to a fraction of the seats they had before they went into coalition and so will use the excuse of waiting till the blasted finance bill has gone through to do the right thing.

I'd say we will be looking at March or April before the GE is called.

Just wondering...does our president have any say at all in what happens to the government? Can't she step in and do something constructive here, or is she largely just a useless figurehead who enjoys a charmed life on the tax payers money up there in Aras an Uachtarain?

El Horseboxo · 20-01-2011 02:06PM

Surely trying to hang on to your existence in a Government that is falling apart and hated by people up and down the country can't be that much craic that you'd wanna stay on under pressure for 2 more months or so. If i was Cowen i'd say **** it and go shopping for a good rope.