Fianna Fáil has registered 24 per cent support, an increase of three points since June. The Green Party, on the other hand, is on just 2 per cent, a drop of two points.
Fine Gael is three points lower on 24 per cent, their lowest poll performance since June 2008.
While I’m glad to see The Greens get what’s coming to them, and hopefully it’ll sink even lower before the next election, how on earth have FF gained support since June? The continued muppetry of people astounds me. I know it shouldn’t but it does.
They’re bankrupting the country to save a crooks bank. That is long and short of it.
As for FG, pathetic. Enda Kenny is the political pied piper. A hapless fool who should be making hay right now. That the biggest opposition party has lost support at a time when the satisfaction with the government is at an all-time low shows you that Richard Bruton and his pals were right to try and oust him.
Any politician with a smidgeon of wit and intelligence would have made themselves a hero in the light of what’s been going on. Look at the increase for Labour and Gilmore. It’s hard to know what the nuts and bolts of their policies are but at least they’ve had the sense to say the right things.
Enda is a dead man walking. Mr Milquetoast. He’ll never be Taoiseach because even in the midst of the worst crisis anyone can remember people just don’t see him as a leader. So much so that some people have obviously decided the people who got us into this mess are a better option than his party. It can’t be more damning than that.
He needs to go, now. FG, if they have any real ambition need a new leader. Otherwise they’ll find themselves the junior partners in a Labour led coalition.
Change. Yes we can’t.
it’s the enda the world as we know it, and i feel fine
No need for the REMinder
Fine Gael have known since 2002 that Enda Kenny was a lost cause but somehow he’s still there. To me, that indicates they are just as pig headed as FF.
Fianna Gael or Fine Fail, your choice.
There’s something of the night about Enda Kenny that turns people off.
I think it might be close to a quarter to eleven. Or around that time anyways.
“That the biggest opposition party has lost support at a time when the dissatisfaction with the government is at an all-time low…”
All-time high, surely?
Ta, fixed
couldnt agree more. poeple dont wnat him as leader, the fact that his party (majority) havent seen and taken this on board is evdience that they are no better than FF, people dont like him, dont have faith in him, they think we can be pushed into electing them and enda by default, well i though FF would be gone the last time, they could survive yet as im not voting for Kenny led FG
But who is there? WHO??
You’d be forgiven for thinking Kenny was a FF spy, in there to wreck their chances in order to keep FF ahead of them. They’re both the same monster anyway.
Gilmore is not Taoiseach material either. And he HAS to stop saying Gubbermint.
Leadership is in short supply in Ireland, as we know to our cost. Cowen made lots of noise in opposition (13 years ago) since he has plenty bark but no bite, and about as much charisma as a nematode.
Kenny is a backroom boy who got shoved into the limelight because no one else wanted the gig enough.
Gormley will see the country down the toilet because he thinks it will mean we’ll all be growing our own veg.
Eamon Gilmore is an SF-SFWP-WP-NA-DL-LAB chameleon who can make all the right leftish noises but when push comes to shove does he really have the gumption to take back what has been robbed from the people of this country? Will he really stand up to the likes of IBEC and the CIF, will he trouble the unions on their rates of pay, will he force the public service to confront their inefficiencies, will he axe hidden state supports for interest groups, will he tell corporate Ireland that it is a part of our competitiveness problem, will he do anythiong radical about social housing at a time when the country is awash with empty housing yet councils have extensive waiting lists? I have my doubts.
FG seems to be a charisma black hole – i think kenny obviously has some ability as an organiser, but comes across as an idiot. hes not helped by the ‘up mayo’ mucksavage side of the party – any kudos he might have gotten for the way he handled the ‘heave’ has been lost at this stage.
gilmore gets angry and self rightous. kenny cant even manage that without sounding like a young teacher on the verge of losing control of a classroom…
the fact that clowens ratings have gone up after the fortnite himself and his party have had probably shows that we’re too thick to be let govern ourselves in fairnes…
gilmore gets angry and self rightous. kenny cant even manage that without sounding like a young teacher on the verge of losing control of a classroom…
Perfect
Move to Zimbabwe! it’s the only place on earth where the Irish will really feel equal to anybody,with equal opportunity based on previous experience.
Still think he would make a decent leader.
Who are people comparing him to?
Bert’nBiff FFS
You need to read the fine print on these surveys:
“The margin of error is plus or minus 3 per cent.”
It will probably be Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF who will be the leader for a while.
No worries, we are about to fully own AIB and Anglo will cost us a max. (honest) €34,000,000,000.
Why is that it has taken the government so long to realise or acknowledge what the rest of us surmised a very long time ago?
Brians vs Brains (brains win every time)
Two Brians don’t make a brain.
I agree with Razzer – we are too thick to be left to look after ourselves. The EU should step in and appoint a caretaker government.
Morning Ireland RTE Radio this a.m. – Brian Lenihan and Aine Lawlor; first thing that was said
AL – “In 2008 you said that this was the cheapest bank bail-out in europe. It’s going to cost the taxpayer €46 Billion.”
BL – (Interrupts; as per usual so he can avoid the question) “I said the cheapest bank bail-out in europe so far. ”
AL – “Huh?”
AL – ” Ok. So when, in 2008, you said that it was the cheapest bank bailout in europe, so far, you were wrong.”
BL – “So far, I said so far”
AL – “Yes, so far, that’s what I said”
BL – “I said so far”.
Isn’t he doing a great job?
The country could be run by a german bureaucrat on a salary of 100k. The pigeon who crashed into my back window this morning would do a better job than the current shower of incompetents.
(The pigeon later died on the neighbour’s patio. To the untrained eye, it may have looked like I was just throwing it over the fence, but I was trying to see if it could still fly. It couldn’t. Dead cats may bounce, but dead pigeons just make a dull thud. Even dead, it looks realtively statesmanlike)
http://skinflicks.blogspot.com/2010/09/not-my-debt.html
did you adams snakin round in the crowed last night. a great asset to our country
El Cuno. I think I like this plan of a German Bureaucrat running Ireland. An emotional void, highly efficient, humourless and grey. So much so, that it will almost be endearing. He’ll look that spectacled teacher from Grange Hill with the bow tie. He’ll wear a sharp functional suit, carry a black hard briefcase and a black umbrella. He will walk functionally and purposefully. He will think only in balance sheets. And they must balance.
He will known as ‘The German’. When he is spotted walking along Merrion Street, people will say “look, there’s the The German going to run Ireland”. He will be the Government.
We will come to love him. There will be no more Jackie Healy-Raes, no more buffoons, no more sneaky teflon types. Everything will work and be on time.
When he appears on Prime Time, even Miriam will not stir him. For only mathematical formulae and code can arouse him. For sexual gratification, he surfs porn by only reading the website source files and from those deducts the action taking place.
He is The German.
In order for this country to ever get back on its feet we need a government that is capable of at least 10 very radical decisions every day. I don’t see any of the alternatives managing even 10 in a year.
Or ever.
Today’s word is “closure”.
Bring me The German!
we are all having a beer in the last chance saloon’ its over
It ain’t over until Mary Harney sings.
she got her belly stiched
otd – heard that alright! more cake for the rest of us!
i hear she getting a belly button ring. time for lunch
I’m skipping lunch today.
Just to get ready for what lies ahead.
”I think I like this plan of a German Bureaucrat running Ireland. An emotional void, highly efficient, humourless and grey.”
I’d like a polite englishman like Layne Price (from Mad Men) to govern. At every posh dinner he’d be under contract to grab his steak and shout ‘Yee-Hah, i’ve got a Texas belt buckle’.
“i hear she’s getting a belly button ring”
not so much for decoration, more as a mobility aid
ha ha ha @ porridge. Classic.
Jesus.
fuck in hell
€3 Billion at least – cuts to be made in the budget. Earlier in the week they said it wouldn’t be more than that. They’re now saying at least that.
They really haven’t a fucking clue what’s going on. I’d really love to know who has deposits with Anglo Irish Bank.
Boys oh Boys,we truly are fucked. The time for action has come and gone and the bastards in the dail are sniggering up their collective sleeves at our collective inaction whilst they continue to rape and plunder at their collective leisure.Imagine looking at your bank balance every friday and seeing the sort of money these fuckers get (note,not earn),they obviously see us as a bunch of morons who will put up with anything. What was needed 2 years ago was a complete clean sweep of all the dail/seanad and to replace them with a national government with a strict criteria to operate on behalf in the best interests of the majority of the population and not just the select few. Can anyone answer me this; why was alan dukes,a retired politicon, given the job of running anglo irish bank. On second thoughts , dont bother answering, cause I already know why, its another cushy number for one of the boys.The country is a joke. Arrest/charge and imprison them all and start again,from scratch if thats what we have to do.Sorry for the rant but right now I am watching my buisness going under and it hurts like fuck.
I don’t think they’re sniggering up thier sleeves, I think they’re panicking and wading in deeper, like a kid who cuts himself doing something dangerous and can’t stop bleeding but is too scared to tell his Ma.
Holemaster, I love your The German plan. Beautifully put – I’ve long thought this. But how would we make it worth their while? Perhaps it could be Euro reality tv, like Supernanny format.
The German: sorts out other countries humourlessly and efficiently. (you don’t get catchy with The German, just accurate)
Fast Forward to 2014…
“Enda Kenny to run for Israeli Prime Minister”
2015…
“Mel Gibson elected in landslide”
heh
Leadership – like Obama with his “ know this mericans” speech and then he printed a trillion bucks forgetting to back it with anything of worth ( but the speech made me cry )
Strong Leadership – like Maggie starts a war in the north Atlantic to occupy the minds in hard times
Mad leadership – like Adolf found hisself a scape goat and cooked him
What kind of leadership are we looking for? We should be careful now.
Would the army or the cops back us when we maybe, eventually, sorta, kinda revolt ?
I’m splitting myself in two. There’s Good Holemaster (who earns money) and Bad Holemaster (who owes money).
I’ve asked the EU central bank and they said it’s cool with them.
So MBNA and go suck Bad Holemaster’s balls.
time for stout
>>for only mathematical formulae and code can arouse >> him. For sexual gratification, he surfs porn by >> only reading the website source files and from >> those deducts the action taking place.
>> He is The German.
Thats fucking class HM
>> Shares in AIB were down 13 per cent on the Irish >> market to 48 cent shortly after 2.35pm. Bank of >> Ireland was trading up 10.2 per cent at 62.8 cent >> a share
Fuck those are big swings …This would scare off even brave investors
snifflecry – dont think the irish navy is up to liberating the falklands..
What would Forty Coats do in this situation?
Bang Bang and Forty Coats. They had the right idea.
Be mad and do whatever you like.
When the bale of bricquettes fell off the back of my Honda 175 in Harols Cross I just knew that red plastic strap was to blame. Undaunted I collected up most of them but had no way of carrying them as they were loose.I kept the best ones in my pockets and hid the remainder behind the low wall at the park.I picked up 4 or five every time I passed and eventually had them all home. I had no assistance from Brian Cowen and have never spoken to him since.
Apparently we’re all being poisoned with flouride. That’s why we don’t do anything about the government. Our will is being dulled.
http://door32.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/irelands-drinking-water-poisoned-by-design/
@Jo 227pm- you nailed it. And Enda will hang on to the very end- I certainly would if I was on that income with perks, wouldn’t anyone? Within the borders of the free state, what group of citizens are the very least likely to put country before self? (hint- there’s a cement truck blocking the entrance to the “hamlet”)
Snifflecry, the army and the cops will shoot you and anyone else who happens to be in the line of fire and those who surrender will go up against the wall. All rebels must die, that’s the way things are and have always been. Besides, it’s what they get paid to do, it’s nothing personal. If you do survive and win, they’ll join you and be your enforcers because they have the guns, tanks and artillery. The bankers? They’ll still be there fucking you.
What I truly don’t get is if you can afford to commit THAT much money to a toxic bank, why can’t we at least have a functioning health service? AT FUCKING LEAST? The HSE is a disaster, but as (financial, in Ireland,) disasters go, cheap. We truly are not much better than Spain under franco, we just muppetly won’t recognize it.
I don’t think Lenin spent much time in the pub.
Make your own drink,avoid pay-per-view sport,
shun all those who say they no longer believe
in the church but are ‘spititual’ and induct
their kids into cannibalistic rituals.
Bread,circuses and the opium of the masses sap
and dissipate all that energy generated by anger.
Coup in Ecuador…
Watch this space and watch how the other South American countries handle it.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0930/breaking64.html