And they're off...

[vireo]

March 11th is the day of reckoning.

Have your piece ready for the canvassers when they knock at your door.

I rather liked this quote (shamelessly stolen from someone else)


..."I wouldn't vote for any of them if the polling booth was in my bathroom and I was dying for a sh*t"

not my opinion, but funny all the same....!

 

[GerryC]

March 11th is the day of reckoning.

Have your piece ready for the canvassers when they knock at your door.

I rather liked this quote (shamelessly stolen from someone else)


..."I wouldn't vote for any of them if the polling booth was in my bathroom and I was dying for a sh*t"

not my opinion, but funny all the same....!

They are not getting your number one so

 

[vireo]

They are not getting your number one so

Hmmm......let me think.......

Kenny? - Cowen? - Gilmore? (didn't he play in Pink Floyd? ....nevermind) - the Shinners ?..................

I've tended to support the Green vote in the past few elections

Our kids futures squandered by a shower of incompetants and a crown of gobshites waiting in the wings to 'have their go at the job'

Jaysus, what a choice !

 

[frank1200]

Hmmm......let me think.......

Kenny? - Cowen? - Gilmore? (didn't he play in Pink Floyd? ....nevermind) - the Shinners ?..................

I've tended to support the Green vote in the past few elections

Our kids futures squandered by a shower of incompetants and a crown of gobshites waiting in the wings to 'have their go at the job'

Jaysus, what a choice !

think the greens will end up like the pds after this
they should anyway

 

[GerryC]

think the greens will end up like the pds after this
they should anyway

The pattern appears to be that the junior partner to F F pay the price.
It might be different this time; the Greens are unlikely to do well but to hold them alone responsible for the goverment appears to be illoglical.
Meanwhile F F are trying to make political capital on the likely alternate coalition disagreeing on policy. F F always agreed on policy - any policy that served them; that agreement was no more than groupthink; it appears to be caving in now. The other side of the coin is that too much agreement gives complacency not progress.

 

[frank1200]

The pattern appears to be that the junior partner to F F pay the price.
It might be different this time; the Greens are unlikely to do well but to hold them alone responsible for the goverment appears to be illoglical.
Meanwhile F F are trying to make political capital on the likely alternate coalition disagreeing on policy. F F always agreed on policy - any policy that served them; that agreement was no more than groupthink; it appears to be caving in now. The other side of the coin is that too much agreement gives complacency not progress.

in no way would i hold the greens totally responsible,but if they had any guts and had not copied the "power at any price" policy of there partners we might all be in a better place.
then again they might not,as bad as the public opinion of ff was i think this last few days has done them serious harm and instead of saving them it could finish them off altogether,

 

[frank1200]

just to say i am in favour of green ideas as long as us country dwellers do not have to go 10 miles to work on a a bicycle "every day",
save the planet but let us live on it as well,i

 

[Slick Nick]

The similarity between Fianna Fail Politicians and Cinderella?........

They both know when to leave a party.

Slick Nick

 

[Brendan]

Since the announcement of the impending election I've been asking myself the question "Who is there to vote for"? The choice irrespective of party affiliation is extremely poor.

So here's a thought. Lets create a list of existing politicians (dream team) we feel can help the country get back on track.

Ok, I start with

 

[rymus]

Jackie Healy-Rae!

Wait, what was the question?

 

[Glenboy]

Having voted in every election since the mid 70s apart from one or two when I wasn't in the country, I always regarded it as a privilege and almost a duty to vote, but ... this time round, I'm seriously considering going to the polling station with a big red marker, drawing two diagonal lines across the ballot paper, and writing "no candidate suitable" between them.

I know, I know, that doesn't solve anything - but it just might make me feel a tiny bit better.

 

[(RIP) Bin Ridin]

There sure seems to be a leadership vacuum, what about McCreevey, McSharry or Cox?

Bin

 

[Spear Ruler]

The similarity between Fianna Fail Politicians and Cinderella?........

They both know when to leave a party.

Slick Nick

There is another saying 'Rats leaving ahead of the sinking ship!'

 

[vireo]

There sure seems to be a leadership vacuum, what about McCreevey, McSharry or Cox?

Bin

I think you're missing a few smilies in that Bin...
- you are being ironic..........aren't you?

these come to mind:










All apply to the ex Minister for Horse Racing Buddy Support and Economic Destruction from Co Kildare. Not so sure about the Sligo fella and the ex-RTE bloke is OK I suppose......

 

[Mide]

Having voted in every election since the mid 70s apart from one or two when I wasn't in the country, I always regarded it as a privilege and almost a duty to vote, but ... this time round, I'm seriously considering going to the polling station with a big red marker, drawing two diagonal lines across the ballot paper, and writing "no candidate suitable" between them.

I know, I know, that doesn't solve anything - but it just might make me feel a tiny bit better.

I'm with you Feargal, I have always voted, like you unless I was out of the country!

I wonder what the process would be if many people spoiled their votes??

Do they have to have a quorum?? I think not

 

[bogman]

Mild form of what I will be pinning up on mt door, feel free to print & use

Exercise your right to vote, anybody that doesn't is automatically voting in the person that wins
A spoiled vote is a lost chance, ye are not entitled to complain if ye dont vote