Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?

jetsonx · 23-02-2014 06:17PM #1

wazky · 23-02-2014 06:17PM

Shhh, they don't actually exist.

michael999999 · 23-02-2014 06:18PM

No. There too ashamed to admit it usually.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 23-02-2014 06:20PM

I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-02-2014 06:20PM

Well considering they represented quite a lump of the electorate for so long, I must have at some time.

Not something I would retain or even enquire about when meeting somebody.

I'm certain the people who have called canvassing for them over the years were FF supporters.

kneemos · 23-02-2014 06:21PM

Hope you don't actually think the rest of them are any better.

vitani · 23-02-2014 06:21PM

Unfortunately, my dad is one.

LeBash · 23-02-2014 06:23PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

I just reported you. Hopefully a mod will ban you.

coolbeans · 23-02-2014 06:23PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

Why? In another thread you're going on about the "astute and tempered" politicians in your adopted Germany yet you vote for cretinous populists when you return home. Seems contradictory.

hfallada · 23-02-2014 06:25PM

Yeah I have. But I havent spoken to anyone that believes labour is doing a good job in Government. They have pretty much shat on most of their pre-election promises

woodoo · 23-02-2014 06:29PM

Bring back the party times.. vote Fianna Fail.

The_Kew_Tour · 23-02-2014 06:30PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

Bertie, should you not be in Fagans at this hour?

Aongus Von Bismarck · 23-02-2014 06:31PM

coolbeans wrote: »

Why? In another thread you're going on about the "astute and tempered" politicians in your adopted Germany yet you vote for cretinous populists when you return home. Seems contradictory.

In Ireland we have little choice. FF are held up as some sort of boogeymen. Its nonsense. All throughout the boom, the opposition were calling for more tax cuts, more social programs, more reliefs for the property market.

In my opinion FF is the party in Ireland that has generally had the more capable politicians. They are perhaps the best of a bad bunch.

I also would more broadly agree with their social policies, than FG who are more conservative.

coolbeans · 23-02-2014 06:38PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

In Ireland we have little choice. FF are held up as some sort of boogeymen. Its nonsense. All throughout the boom, the opposition were calling for more tax cuts, more social programs, more reliefs for the property market.

In my opinion FF is the party in Ireland that has generally had the more capable politicians. They are perhaps the best of a bad bunch.

I also would more broadly agree with their social policies, than FG who are more conservative.

Agreed that our political class is of a very poor standard by western comparison but they are rightly held up as a bogeyman as they have .governed the country with some interruption since the beginning. They set the very low standard, particularly in the seventies and the eighties, that the others had to follow if they were not to see themselves obliterated by FF. That's why I have no time for them. Your 'they're all the same ' argument is pretty lazy and clichéd imo.

Witchie · 23-02-2014 06:38PM

Yeah, I used to have relations with one until he revealed his dark secret. He has been permanently banned from my presence.

L'Enfer du Nord · 23-02-2014 06:39PM

kneemos wrote: »

Hope you don't actually think the rest of them are any better.

That could actually be Fianna Fail's slogan at the next election. The others are better in so far as they haven't bankrupted the country twice whilst enriching themselves.

I've barely met anyone who says yes 'I'm a Fianna Fail Supporter', but before the last election I met loads who said something along the lines of 'I'll be voting for Sean, we always do' - Sean being the latest FF Scion that 'we' (the voter and their entire family) always vote for.

Grab All Association · 23-02-2014 06:43PM

vitani wrote: »

Unfortunately, my dad is one.

kneemos · 23-02-2014 06:51PM

coolbeans wrote: »

Agreed that our political class is of a very poor standard by western comparison but they are rightly held up as a bogeyman as they have .governed the country with some interruption since the beginning. They set the very low standard, particularly in the seventies and the eighties, that the others had to follow if they were not to see themselves obliterated by FF. That's why I have no time for them. Your 'they're all the same ' argument is pretty lazy and clichéd imo.

Can't blame someone else for your own actions.It always amazes me why they don't adopt muchhigher standards it would be a massive vote winner and lead the way for all political parties.Presumably they're so entrenched in their ways they're incapable of changing.

Burky126 · 23-02-2014 06:53PM

wazky wrote: »

Shhh, they don't actually exist.

That's what they want you to think,stupid!

eireannBEAR · 23-02-2014 06:53PM

woodoo wrote: »

Bring back the party times.. vote Fianna Fail.

HAHA....love it.

my friend · 23-02-2014 06:53PM

kneemos wrote: »

Hope you don't actually think the rest of them are any better.

You can always spot a FFer - the reference to 'the rest of them' ...

eireannBEAR · 23-02-2014 06:55PM

my friend wrote: »

You can always spot a FFer - the reference to 'the rest of them' ...

Well do you think ''The rest of them'' are any better?

Galwayguy35 · 23-02-2014 06:58PM

I voted FF in the past, the old man was FF all his life but I chop and change, have voted SF the last few times.

I despise Labour and would never vote for them.

my friend · 23-02-2014 06:59PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I voted Fianna Fail in the past and I am not ashamed of it. If I return home I will most likely do the same again.

And some day you may link emigration with Fianna fails mismanagement of the economy for their own self enrichment - FF bankrupted Ireland in an attempt to protect their pals, and you'll vote for them again?

eireannBEAR · 23-02-2014 07:01PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I despise Labour and would never vote for them.

Ah labour the party that appears to run on pure spite. I dont blame you.

galwayrush · 23-02-2014 07:01PM

I know a few FF faithful fanatics. Combined, their IQ wouldn't add up to a lot, thankfully there morons are dying out.

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 23-02-2014 07:02PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I despise Labour and would never vote for them.

+1000

granturismo · 23-02-2014 07:04PM

jetsonx wrote: »

Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?

Yes, what do you want to know?

eireannBEAR · 23-02-2014 07:04PM

galwayrush wrote: »

I know a few FF faithful fanatics. Combined, their IQ wouldn't add up to a lot, thankfully there morons are dying out.

Nice post,You came across as a real nice guy. :pac:

_Kaiser_ · 23-02-2014 07:09PM

FF, FG.. there's no real difference. One ran the country into the ground, the other sealed the deal and has perhaps the worst Taoiseach we've ever had - not to mention their fondness for dipping their hands in your pocket by abusing Revenue.

We don't have a REAL alternative in this country. People won't vote SF (forgetting that the other parties are hardly any better) and the Independents are mostly the worst examples of parish pump shyte that we really need to get away from.

Given the choice next time though I'll probably vote FF as FG outright lied to get into power, are just as incompetent and shady as FF (as the current scandals illustrate), and are just so arrogant that they deserve an electoral hiding - though just as their predecessors did I fully expect the leadership to "retire" or feck off to Europe rather than face the voters!

eireannBEAR · 23-02-2014 07:11PM

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

FF, FG.. there's no real difference. One ran the country into the ground, the other sealed the deal and has perhaps the worst Taoiseach we've ever had - not to mention their fondness for dipping their hands in your pocket by abusing Revenue.

We don't have a REAL alternative in this country. People won't vote SF (forgetting that the other parties are hardly any better) and the Independents are mostly the worst examples of parish pump shyte that we really need to get away from.

Given the choice next time though I'll probably vote FF as FG outright lied to get into power, are just as incompetent and shady as FF (as the current scandals illustrate), and are just so arrogant that they deserve an electoral hiding - though just as their predecessors did I fully expect the leadership to "retire" or feck off to Europe rather than face the voters!

I agree completely with this post,Right down to the last letter.

Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?

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