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.
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.
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.
kneemos wrote: » Hope you don't actually think the rest of them are any better.
vitani wrote: » Unfortunately, my dad is one.
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.
wazky wrote: » Shhh, they don't actually exist.
woodoo wrote: » Bring back the party times.. vote Fianna Fail.
my friend wrote: » You can always spot a FFer - the reference to 'the rest of them' ...
Galwayguy35 wrote: » I despise Labour and would never vote for them.
jetsonx wrote: » Have you ever spoken to a Fianna Fail supporter?
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.
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!