General Election: Who will you be voting for?

munsterdevil · **Joined:** Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:23 pm **Posts:** 736

aZerogodist wrote:

munsterdevil wrote:

I think just over 50% of the population did vote for them

As 67% of the population voted, of which 42% FF so 28% of the population voted for FF.

I already stated to Bik that I was wrong on the more than half th electorate statistic :roll:

Ciaran · **Joined:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:10 pm **Posts:** 217

I don't appear to have any independants to vote for, at least so far, in South Leitrim. I voted for that McGrath tit in the last election but I wouldn't again as he joined in with FF (cardinal sin in my book since I was old enough to undersand why my da was shouting at the telly) and he's also pro-Castro. It seems he said that claims about el Fidel using torture etc. to silence dissent are all "right-wing propaganda".

I'm not saying it applies to posters here at all, but I think a lot of people think that 'independant' is automatically good, like 'natural'. I think of Botulinum and Jackie Healy Rae.

chemicals · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:37 am

At this stage does it really matter folks

90bn - current sov. debt
20bn - prefunded debt
23bn - redeeming bonds over next 3 years
35bn - bank recapitalisation
45bn - cost of funding the the country over next 3 years
100bn - short term ECB liquidity to irish banks
30bn - irish central bank master loan repurchase agreements

343bn grand total

aZerogodist · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:43 pm

http://irishelectionliterature.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/wanted-fianna-fail-tds-reward-2-billion-aib-bank-shares-kpswa-poster/
http://kpswa.wordpress.com/

chemicals · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:39 pm

Ygern · **Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:21 am

chemicals wrote:

But not in Russian though. It's funny how so many people identify him as Russian, or as having written in Russian. He was German, and he wrote his significant works in England where he lived, and eventually died.
(I know you didn't make the poster chemicals, the pretend-Cyrillic script just struck me as funny)

chemicals · **Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:41 pm

Ygern wrote:

But not in Russian though. It's funny how so many people identify him as Russian, or as having written in Russian. He was German, and he wrote his significant works in England where he lived, and eventually died.
(I know you didn't make the poster chemicals, the pretend-Cyrillic script just struck me as funny)

Я предупредил Вас, что это могло случиться

-Да я был бы лучше на русском языке

chemicals · **Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:56 pm

aZerogodist · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:10 pm

I have not decided yet defo Labour & maybe the greens (as they should know the full state the country is in) but just wondering about Sinn Fein, not a fan, but they do state:

Quote:

Social and Economic Rights for All
8. All people have the right to free and secular education and access to life-long learning opportunities

Rights for all

I would perfer a Labour-Green-SF than FG-Labour-Green rainbow.

Bik · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:07 pm

I'll be voting Sinn Féin, I reckon the Greens will be wiped out, they won't disband like the PDs afterwards but will become a political non entity and I think deservedly so. Despite their promises and supposed beliefs they have been completely ineffectual in power and deserve the abyss.

Barny · **Joined:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:32 pm **Posts:** 28

Dev wrote:

I tend to vote for the candidate rather than the associated party.

Similarly to funkyderek, I'll try and vote independent if possible. I'll probably end up throwing a vote to Labour though.

It should be party first then candidate. I think local politics got us in this mess in the first place. Think jackie healy rae, and any other gobshite that offered to fix the pothole outside your gate for your vote. Think of the bigger picture. Which policies will better our country.

Barny · **Joined:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:32 pm **Posts:** 28

aZerogodist wrote:

I have not decided yet defo Labour & maybe the greens (as they should know the full state the country is in) but just wondering about Sinn Fein, not a fan, but they do state:

Quote:

Social and Economic Rights for All
8. All people have the right to free and secular education and access to life-long learning opportunities

Rights for all

I would perfer a Labour-Green-SF than FG-Labour-Green rainbow.

Labour will never enter into a rainbow government with Sinnfein.

munsterdevil · **Joined:** Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:23 pm **Posts:** 736

Barny wrote:

aZerogodist wrote:

I have not decided yet defo Labour & maybe the greens (as they should know the full state the country is in) but just wondering about Sinn Fein, not a fan, but they do state:

Quote:

Social and Economic Rights for All
8. All people have the right to free and secular education and access to life-long learning opportunities

Rights for all

I would perfer a Labour-Green-SF than FG-Labour-Green rainbow.

Labour will never enter into a rainbow government with Sinnfein.

Why?

Barny · **Joined:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:32 pm **Posts:** 28

Because Eamon Gilmore ruled out the possibility of entering into a coalition with SinnFein.....
....But we all know how politicians stand by their word :roll:

At the last General Election Green party leader Trevor Sargent said he would step down as leader if the Green party voted to join FF in gov. And he did just that, taking a junior minister position. So anything is possible I guess, would Eamon eat his words or go if that were to happen?

munsterdevil · **Joined:** Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:23 pm **Posts:** 736

I know Eamon Gilmore rule out the possibility of going into coalition with Sinn Féin, but what were his reasons?

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