Which Party do you definately not want to see in the next Government?

Mint Aero wrote: »

Utter nonsense :rolleyes:



Wow :eek: oh really? Oh, ok thanks I see everything so clearly now jeez great to have insightful people like you around isn't it :P

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You have nothing to fear but fear itself compadre. Don't be afraid of the future and cling desperately to darkened past times, the future is bright, very bright indeed.

The first line makes no sense... you replied before even reading my explanation

I think people didn't like Enda because he seemed like a poor leader but he's faced a few leadership challenges since then and survived so fair play to him, perhaps he's changed people's opinion since 2009. He was always going to become taoiseach (maybe despite himself) and you would be a fool not to see that. He was the leader of the most popular opposition party at a time when govt popularity was plummeting.

It's a lot harder to change people's opinion when they believe you're a terrorist/murderer who has escaped without prosecution. He was named as the man who gave the order for Jean McConville's execution for god's sake! Surely that would do major damage to anyone's political career.

Haughey and Aherne were not thought to be corrupt by the public when then were running, everything only came out after, unlike with Adams. If he wants sympathy and understanding for what he may have done in the troubles then why run in the south where the majority don't know what it was like and don't really care? Whatever happened there 30/40 years ago little relevance to running the republic today. I think the general consensus south of the border is that there was wrong done on both sides and a lot of people won't accept Adams (and other senior SF members) in govt because of his part in it.

I'm not afraid of SF getting in to power. Some of their TDs' enthusiasm and passion like Pearce Dohertys and Mary Lou McDonalds is refreshing and good to see, so why not put one of them in charge? I just think it would be a real shame to see Adams get into power because he is almost certainly lying about his level of involvement with the IRA and he would further alienate unionists from the republic. It will take a lot longer to get a united Ireland if he ever becomes Taoiseach.

Don't cling to the past? Tell that to the families of people killed by the IRA. Ironic coming from the supporter of a party whose main goal it is to reunite a country which has been partitioned for 80+ years :rolleyes:

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I think this is probably an important but overlooked point. Whoever had won the last election was always in for a few tough years ahead with hard decisions to make. I certainly dont envy FG or Lab for having that task.

In reality they were probably the right choice, the best of a bad bunch. We could of had a lot worse tbh.

Also i can't help but laugh at the "people who dont vote for who i want (Sinn Fein cough cough) are idiots" posts. No grip on reality there

TBH I think FG make a very good government. They were handed down a mess of epic proportions, courtesy of those scum in FF, went in did what they had to do and have done a decent job steadying the ship. Have all the decisions they've taken been right, no. But they've got a lot right and are a vast improvement in every way. There's no pot of gold they can give out (see where the so-called FF "giveaway budgets" got us).

We have certainly come a long in the 3 years since that drunken crook Cowen and Co had to bring in the IMF thanks to their own incompetence. Anyone who votes for that shower again wants their head examined IMHO.

awec wrote: »

If SF get in at least it will expose their incompetence on a national level when it comes to real issues that require a bit of thought and a sense of realism.

I think it may be no harm to let SF in for a while. If only to show them up for the incompetent sh1t stirrers that they are. They would be forced to follow the EU/IMF Programme (because clearly there's no free money/crock of Gold).
I'd give them 6 months to a year 'til their fantasy land deck of cards then collapses.

verbumdei wrote: »

Why? was the whole party in government? I would not let mismanagement at the top stop me from voting for them again.

Whole lot of them voted for and revelled in their various and many disasterous budgets. They brought to the country to it's knees and to me those FF councillors/backbenchers who are now rewriting history and claiming it "was nothing to do with me" are akin to rats on a sinking ship.
Not a hope in hell would I consider voting for such incompetence and they can try re-package it all they like and shirk responsibility for what they did all they like, but the facts don't lie.
Another few years of FF in government I shudder to think what would have happened. Be like Greece I'd say.

Definitely not FF. What they did to this country should not be forgotten in the space of one election. One generation and we will think about forgiving them, but probably won't.

And not a great fan of the lefties and dopeheads either. They would put us into the dark ages.

road_high wrote: »

I think it may be no harm to let SF in for a while. If only to show them up for the incompetent sh1t stirrers that they are. They would be forced to follow the EU/IMF Programme (because clearly there's no free money/crock of Gold).
I'd give them 6 months to a year 'til their fantasy land deck of cards then collapses.

What? You mean the 'magic money tree' or 'taxing the rich' isn't a plausible economic plan? Well I never.....

An Coilean wrote: »

Well, At least it would make Politics interesting.

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