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Ipsos MRBI poll: Fianna Fáil most popular party

  • 08-02-2013 10:18PM
    #1
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭


    Will we ever learn. Come back FF all is forgiven, they are up to 26% .Also notice that 'Others' are up to 21%. So if we have an election it'll be FF plus Ming and Mick et al in government. Why do we get stupid government? Because we have a stupid electorate.


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  • #2
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Doesn't take long to forget does it?

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0208/breaking57.html


  • #3
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    token101 wrote: »
    Doesn't take long to forget does it?

    Speak for yourself.


  • #4
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    I've said it before and I'll say it again, FF will be back in power after the next election. We'll have the same cronyism back and we'll have another *ahem* boom. I advise people to buy property now in expectation of the next property bubble.


  • #5
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    Zebra3 wrote: »

    Speak for yourself.

    I'll go out on a limb and say he is quoting the poll.


  • #6
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Disappointing but hardly surprising.


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  • #7
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    One second if you suffer from short term memory loss, that is all.


  • #8
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    token101 wrote: »
    Doesn't take long to forget does it?

    Forget what?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #9
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    omahaid wrote: »
    I've said it before and I'll say it again, FF will be back in power after the next election. We'll have the same cronyism back and we'll have another *ahem* boom. I advise people to buy property now in expectation of the next property bubble.

    i agree with you. i was reading the other day that another deep recession is expected for 2024. these come in cycles and are engineered

    what do you think people that own property but are selling (me) should do


  • #10
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Why anyone that supports the current regime would be pissed off with this news dumbfounds me tbh.

    The Only Difference in FG and FF is one letter.

    They're exactly the same party.


    I despair at our own stupidity at times, are we really so stupid as to not give the 'alternative' a chance?

    Option A and Option B have both failed us, so its now time for plan C.


  • #11
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    SamHall wrote: »
    Why anyone that supports the current regime would be pissed off with this news dumbfounds me tbh.

    The Only Difference in FG and FF is one letter.

    They're exactly the same party.


    I despair at our own stupidity at times, are we really so stupid as to not give the 'alternative' a chance?

    Option A and Option B have both failed us, so its now time for plan C.

    You mean Sinn Fein? Yes, we're that 'stupid', or at least I hope so anyway.


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  • #12
    Super-Rush
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    Threads merged.


  • #13
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    SamHall wrote: »
    Why anyone that supports the current regime would be pissed off with this news dumbfounds me tbh.

    The Only Difference in FG and FF is one letter.

    They're exactly the same party.


    I despair at our own stupidity at times, are we really so stupid as to not give the 'alternative' a chance?

    Option A and Option B have both failed us, so its now time for plan C.

    What's plan c?


  • #14
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    token101 wrote: »
    You mean Sinn Fein? Yes, we're that 'stupid', or at least I hope so anyway.


    Independents?

    I personally would love to see Shane Ross and Stephen Donnelly in some coalition govt in one shape or form?

    Actual business people, not retarded retired teachers or fcukin publicans!


  • #15
    books4sale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭books4sale


    token101 wrote: »
    Doesn't take long to forget does it?l

    For some.

    The last election they were taught a lesson but FF have always had a core vote which wasn't going to disappear so quickly.

    They wrecked this country and I never want to see them back in power,

    ....but with a young generation of talented voters emigrating and the country stuck with the dregs of losers then I would expect to see them back in power. Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile.


  • #16
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    what do you think people that own property but are selling (me) should do

    If you're selling one house to buy another for some reason like having a bigger family then just buy a nice affordable place now.


  • #17
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    SamHall wrote: »
    Independents?

    I personally would love to see Shane Ross and Stephen Donnelly in some coalition govt in one shape or form?

    Actual business people, not retarded retired teachers or fcukin publicans!

    That wouldn't work. How would Shane jump on every passing bandwagon if he was in a government.


  • #18
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Unsurprising considering how many sensible young people have emigrated only leaving those of us struggling behind and of course those corrupt and stupid enough to consider voting for Fianna Fail.

    I am a firm believer that all those who are citizens of Ireland should have the right to vote in an election whether they are in the country or not. Those forced to emigrate would quickly stamp down on Fianna Fail. If they ever again get back into power then there will have to be another Civil War in in this country to get rid of them forever.


  • #19
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I enjoy listening to lefties like Joe Higgins et al. They make perfect sense much of the time. A financial system that works for and is accountable to the people. The problem is the rest of the world doesnt make sense. So unless we here in Ireland want to become a little socialist republic, we just have to shut up do as best we can with the utterly fúcked up capitalist system that makes this crazy world go around.

    Back on topic - Yes, its fúcking sickening that we will probably have FF back in government next term.


  • #20
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Too many stupid people in this country..


  • #21
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    If there is an election, FF posters should be made carry a health warning with pictures of ghost housing estates or, horror of horrors, pictures of Seanie and Fingers. On second thoughts it might not work, horror pics don't deter the smokers.


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  • #22
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    What this poll says is a continuation of many people's psychology. That is what counts in their pockets at the detriment of everyone else, classic FF populism.

    Presently, taxes go up, cutbacks etc...IMF pull the strings and yes FG\Lab suffer because of it and yet the creators of this populist mess is FF, people have short memories and will vote for whoever gives them most in their pockets.

    Shame on you 26%, sickening. :mad:


  • #23
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    That wouldn't work. How would Shane jump on every passing bandwagon if he was in a government.

    He'd possibly get a few tips from past and current govt ministers.

    Won't pay banks/paying them back in full.
    Burn bondholders/turn their debt into sovereign debt.
    No property tax/full on property tax.
    Won't cut child support/supports cut's.

    I'm nearly tempted to vote Boyd-Barrett at this stage.


  • #24
    token101
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    SamHall wrote: »
    I'm nearly tempted to vote Boyd-Barrett at this stage.

    Jesus you might as well roll the ballot paper up and smoke it


  • #25
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    token101 wrote: »
    Jesus you might as well roll the ballot paper up and smoke it

    Or vote for Ming and add abit of the old wacky tabacy to it!


  • #26
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    token101 wrote: »
    Jesus you might as well roll the ballot paper up and smoke it

    That's ming your thinking of! :pac:


  • #27
    jjbrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    this is the typic FF voter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyDBIymdADA


  • #28
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    The Irish people do not stand together, they stand beside each other, waiting for instruction, as much as Ireland is now under the rule of the IMF, the people of Ireland are under rule by the people who now are under rule by something not Irish,

    hell rub it into yis, they say burn the bond holders, me thinks it is time to burn the system that has got us to this point, we have no control and no say, we listen to soap box chatters and think they are our future, hell rub it in till we get eyes wide, fook them all is the only way forward, (while this is a bit crude it is a reduced soup of shiite) that is all.


  • #29
    jjbrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    Wish we could liquidate FF like what has just happened to anglo. No more toxic bank and no more toxic political party.


  • #30
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    If Fianna Fail are going to get back into power than I'm voting for and joining the most militant party there is be they far left, far right or republican or unionist.


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  • #31
    jjbrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    If Fianna Fail are going to get back into power than I'm voting for and joining the most militant party there is be they far left, far right or republican or unionist.

    Be the shinners then for you.


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