Poster Shenanigans

spatchco · 01-05-2012 07:25PM #1

just been up in Finglas os superquinn when i saw a red micra stopped when a young female got out and went about cutting 2-3 posters for joe higgins down /?? what the f,,k would that be all about,dirty tricks

raymon · 01-05-2012 07:41PM

spatchco wrote: »

just been up in Finglas os superquinn when i saw a red micra stopped when a young female got out and went about cutting 2-3 posters for joe higgins down /?? what the f,,k would that be all about,dirty tricks

Spatchco , I assume you took her car registration and forwarded it to Higgins, and the Gardai.

Let us know how the investigation progresses.

I dislike Joe Higgins , but there is no room for this type of shennagins if it is true.

spatchco · 01-05-2012 07:49PM

sorry raymon did not get the reg number was taken by surprise,but the pair were not hideing very brazen,,,my opinion poor showing if that is what politics is about,,but will keep an eye out more posters on glasnevin ave

passive · 01-05-2012 08:40PM

What's Joe Higgins running for at the moment?

Sierra Oscar · 01-05-2012 09:14PM

passive wrote: »

What's Joe Higgins running for at the moment?

Indeed, what posters does Joe have up? He hardly has his own specialised ones for the referendum?

K-9 · 01-05-2012 10:39PM

Usual campaigning behaviour tbh, McDowell and Creighton a great example in 07.

Dirk Gently · 02-05-2012 06:58AM

It's nothing new. One of the big conservative parties are well know for this carry on at election times although if it was a micra maybe it wasn't one of their members. :pac:

ixtlan · 02-05-2012 03:54PM

I agree this should be reported to verify what happened.

However, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that they were Joe Higgins supporters who for whatever reason needed to move the posters elsewhere?

Maybe I'm not cynical enough, but honestly, do people really tear down each others posters?

Ix.

BOZG · 02-05-2012 05:40PM

ixtlan wrote: »

Maybe I'm not cynical enough, but honestly, do people really tear down each others posters?

Ix.

Very much so. And it's not just candidates from different parties having a go at each other. It's not unknown for candidates in the same party scrapping for a single seat to try and sabotage each others.

flynnlives · 02-05-2012 05:53PM

The blueshirt youth have been mobilized.

Since the FG campaign launch they have been actively "bigging up" the yes campaign on all social media sites facebook/twitter journal.ie here and p.ie
basically anywhere they can spin the conversation.

meglome · 02-05-2012 06:43PM

flynnlives wrote: »

The blueshirt youth have been mobilized.

Since the FG campaign launch they have been actively "bigging up" the yes campaign on all social media sites facebook/twitter journal.ie here and p.ie
basically anywhere they can spin the conversation.

You have got to be kidding me. I've been on the Journal and there are about five people supporting the treaty and about 50 against, comments wise. The Journal is a bastion of extreme views and the hard left.

I've been told twice today alone I'm working for 'the government'. Let me spell this out for you I'm not for the government, but I'm most certainly against most No voters/anti-household charge/hard left.

ArmaniJeanss · 02-05-2012 11:08PM

May have been the SWP party themselves who took it down. They re-use a lot of their posters.
So the poster could have been Joe supporting some local campaign or other, the poster will be taken back to HQ and printed over with details of a new campaign, march or views on the forthcoming referendum. Then stuck up again tomorrow. Its actually a decent bit of money saving by them, apparently those posters are near €10 a unit.

Victor · 03-05-2012 12:45AM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

May have been the SWP party themselves

**cough** Socialist Party **cough** :0

carveone · 03-05-2012 12:17PM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

May have been the SWP party themselves who took it down. They re-use a lot of their posters.

All the original "Anti household charge" SF and WP posters around my area are now gone - there was a guy in a van last week taking them down. They do repaste them with new posters and stick them back up - there was a few which had peeled showing the posters from previous election...

I expect a blizzard of them any day now...

a young female got out

pedantry: a young female what? Gorilla?

Chazz Michael Michaels · 03-05-2012 08:09PM

I don't see the problem, they are a disgusting eyesore.

Agent Smith · 04-05-2012 04:59AM

Political parties have been know to move posters around to save on money.

If you see if happen, contact the Party itself. they will check with their local orginisation i would imagine.

Robbo · 04-05-2012 03:06PM

Maybe the SP took them down for fear of being injuncted under Sherlock's Folly due to their use of Saatchi & Saatchi's "Labour isn't working" image?

C14N · 05-05-2012 05:58PM

She sounds like a hero. I wish someone would take all the posters down. None of them are doing anything to actually inform people of what the treaty is about, they just sum it up vaguely and entirely uninformatively (like "yes for stability") or tell outright lies ("no to household and water charges").

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