It is more likely than not that Enda Kenny will be the next Taoiseach. Not exactly our Obama moment, is it?
The man who is supposed to lead this country out of the worst crisis it has ever faced won’t take part in a TV debate because it’s being chaired by Vincent Brown.
Now, on the one hand I kind of understand. He talks the good talk, does Vincent but at the bottom of it all he’s a bit painful. He’s rude, tedious, his voice is grating and he seems to think we like to hear it more than the people he interviews. His manners are not exactly great either.
In all, despite the fact he’s about the only one saying things many others should be saying, and I give him credit for that, he’s a bit of a cunt really.
However, if Enda refuses to take part in a debate simply because he doesn’t like the presenter that doesn’t really speak well to his character. Sure, Vincent said he should go sit in a dark room with a bottle of whiskey and a gun, but man up and get the fuck over it. And while that comment might have been a bit insensitive it’s not anything the rest of us weren’t thinking. As Fianna Fail have lurched from one disaster to another Fine Gael have shown strong leadership and taken advantage. Oh no, wait. They didn’t.
Wishy-washy, stuttering Enda made himself look a chump more times than he made them look stupid. And seeing as we have a Tánaiste with the IQ of a shoe that’s hardly encouraging.
He can make all the excuses he likes about not appearing but a real leader wouldn’t back down from something like this. There is no moral high ground here, he simply looks like a wimp.
Just what we need.
first.
VB said he’d step aside, enda said his empty chair will represent famine victims or something, he’s off his fucking head.
the cunt thinks all he has to do is turn up, im sickened by this reward for years of faithful administrations by the party. the man is an idiot, he’s our GWB in all but accent (though they both so sound like cultchies). once again its party before country and it will work toward getting FF back in power in the not too distant.
SF are the only crowd with national interests at heart.
Sinn Fein make Mexican drug dealers look like bunny rabbits diggity rape doubt dudey person
I defend Enda Kenny at every turn but I can’t on this one.
Shit.
This is what Vincent Browne interviewing Marian Finicune would sound like
Vincent Browne – “Cough, splutter, hack?*
Marian Finucane – “Cough, spluuter, hack”
Vincent Browne – “Cough, cough, hack, hack?”
Marian Finucan ” cough – Smoke Break?*
Vincent Browne – “Yep, hack, cough , splutter”
Yep, very worrying that a future Taoiseach would be so petty as to engage in this sort of nonsense. I fear FG will be the big stick that beats us all into an authoritarian state. They do love the cops after all.
Fianna Fail are a bunch of criminals and treasonous gangsters but Fine Gael are right wing Christians Democrats. When it comes to opening the sphincter for the Vatican, Fine Gael have cornered the lube supplies.
We’re in for a very disappointing government in terms of squabbling, inaction, incompetency and lack of reform. Things are not going to get better any time soon. We needed massive street protests and national strikes over the bail out and the IMF but we didn’t do it.
Now we have Enda.
Is he doing the “better to keep quiet and let people think you may be stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt” thing? He probably thinks he & FG will get most of the votes that FF lose, by default. & thinks If he can get them by saying nothing why risk losing them.
Another one who assumes he has some sort of entitlement
& You do wonder if he’s too scared to talk to VinB and other candidates how on earth he’s going to deal with the IMF.
Crikey, Friday already?
Leader debate squabbles are a side-show distraction. There are no leaders being elected in my constituency, despite the flapping Oddums posters.
Is Joe Higgins scheduled to be in any ‘leader’ debate? No. So give Joe the empty chair and let him give the establishment a run for thier money. And don’t anyone kid themselves, the only difference between FF and SF is the length of time SF will take to catch up.
Christy has it … the old political rule about never interrupting one’s political enemy while he is busy machinegunning his own feet off day after day applies here.
I’d think Kenny and co were extremely foolish to allow FF to ameliorate any damage they’ve done to themselves with a football-match style debate on TV.
I think it shows FG have got their thinking caps on. Kenny is not a comfortable media performer whereas FF have had all the resources and airtime they want to roll out someone looking for a killer quip which could dominate the media space for the next three weeks.
Quite frankly if I were one of Kenny’s handlers I’d be dead against risking turning a landslike against government into a ‘celebrity mediabite competition’.
Its isn’t cowardice on FG’s part. Its common sense.
How many times did Bertie Ahern appear on VB’s show? Cowen?
Tony Blair throughout his entire premiershio refused to go on John Humphrey’s BBC radio show despite hundreds of attempts to get him on… but the Humphreys was dangerous as an interviewer.
‘premiership’. ‘premiershio’ is Italian. Sorry. I’d pasta last night.
Apparently Gormley has now offered to fill the vacant chair at the debate. Hmmm
No need for any vacant chair for emigrant Irish people either as was proposed.
I hear FG have today announced a proposal to allow ‘qualified’ emigrants to vote in Presidential elections.
Thats a decent start and I assume ‘qualified’ would mean those in possession of a current Irish passport and within 3-5 years of having left home which seems sensible enough.
We should be able to vote at Embassies as the French, Americans, Germans abroad do.
Its a start and a good experiment with the Presidential elections but of course we need to get rid of the vested interest nominations for the Presidency from the so-called ‘educated’ sector of society … the University nominees and so on.
If the Dail elections are not opened to Irish passport holders abroadb then I fully intend to show Irish people abroad how to have their say in a way which no Irish government will enjoy.
Fuck asking permission.
Vincent said that about Inda? “he should go sit in a dark room with a bottle of whiskey and a gun” Good man Vincent.
I think he’s great. Vincent I mean.
He’s only a cunt to cunts. They deserve it. They won’t answer his questions half the time. You’d have to get thick with them now and then.
I fail to see how he’s a cunt any more than people here are about FF/FG.
He’a cunt because he puposefully pursues a line of questioning which is more akin to a courtroom cross examination than an interview. He knows that most mere mortals are not capable of holding up to that type of questioning which is why you’ll notice that when he finished interviewing Brian Lenihan in october they gave each other the smarmy knowing aloof grin to each other.
Vincent Browne – he is a cunt.
BMD did a great job on Lenny the Lesser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh6pazSjO6o&feature=player_embedded
The debate is a side issue.
FF are in a ‘nothing to lose’ position.
FG are in a ‘nothing to gain’ position.
Why the Hell should FG succumb to the wishes of FF and take part in a debate with the primary focus on future policy? It’s a trick, to focus attention on empty promises rather than remembering the complete and utter failure, lies, incompetence and corruption we’ve suffered under FF.
The only thing that should be on people’s minds is getting FF out of government, not a personality contest.
And speaking of empty promises, who wouldn’t want to be a Sinn Féin candidate in this election?
They can promise absolutely anything they think the public want to hear, safe in the knowledge that they’ll never be blamed when they fail to deliver on it.
Yep .. Step One is eliminate Fianna Fail.
Where Enda has fucked up is that he has now given three different reasons why he won’t appear on TV3:
1. Wanted 5 way not 3 way (ya boy ya!).
2. Won’t talk to Vincvent Browne.
3. His schedule won’t allow it.
The changing of your reasons for a stated action is known as “A Comical Lenny” and should be avoided by all aspiring political candidates.
The diiference is that if you give sinn fein a gun and a bottle of whiskey they’ll blow your fucking brains out and then drink the whiskey
And then they’ll kneecap you for smoking a joint.
fascist cunts.
Higgins would be a decent replacement to get in. Twould be interesting to see if he can do any better than the shinners on economic policy.
There’s no show like a Joe show.
Fianna Fail Black Ops – can’t wait for the video game:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ff-black-ops-aimed-for-enda-before-tv-debate-2527426.html
funny that mad vinnie went handy on averil power the other week …
Are any of you standing? As independents maybe?
NEVER underestimate FF and what they’ll do to keep power.
“In what amounts to an astonishing ‘dirty trick’, the individuals concerned hired people to pose as tabloid journalists and to ask questions of Mr Kenny which suggested that a scandal was about to break within Fine Gael — a completely spurious suggestion…..these allegations were put to him by individuals who were hired specifically for that purpose.”
And speaking of empty promises, who wouldn’t want to be a Sinn Féin candidate in this election?
They can promise absolutely anything they think the public want to hear, safe in the knowledge that they’ll never be blamed when they fail to deliver on it.
That is a very good point
vote for itchybollix Christy.
My 6 points are -
1. The Constitution will be binned, re-written and have no reference to religious claptrap.
2. Pubs and Off Licences can be opened 24/7
3. You get one ride a week; if you cannot afford a ride then one will be appointed for you, if you have a medical card you can pay for it with that.
4. Each estate in the country will have a party every month to promote social interaction and therefore possibly negate the cost of point 3.
5. All the police will be sacked and made to re-apply for their posts. Therefore <1% will be re-employed. The new police will consist of people who actually care about justice and not about abusing their power, kicking the shit out of people and jailing the poor.
6. Because of point 5; there will in fact be arrests for financial cimes committed by Fianna Fail and their lackeys
Not bad Itchy. I’d consider it.
Although I don’t know if I could cope with all that riding.
Could be a lot of it if you were the state-appointed rider for those who can’t pay.
It’s a winning manifesto Itchy
maggot could be a tax-exile and I’d nominate Mary Harney for him. Before she has her snatch trimmed by NASA on her expenses
TheStory.ie
is where its at
a future entry
Perhaps the Itchy Manifesto is not particularly well named for one that includes the riding.
vincent browne is a spluttering whinneying self rightous fool of an interviewer, I dont disagree with many of his views but his show decends into slapstick and farce more often than not.
I dont blame kenny.. He’s going to do two other debates on rte in any case(afaik)
the real debate; vinny b, george hook, and manseragh. self rightous spluttering all round!
Mister itchy, Mister itchy! I’m very disgusted that your manifesto makes no mention of Met Eireann and the way she might look at you in light of your previous pronouncements on this matter and I see it as a matter of grave urgency vis-a-vis the meterological encumbents and point 3 of your proposal which may be seen in some quarters as vexacious and self-serving.
Avril Power- wife of Fionan Sheehan- INDO pol cor.
Jim O’Callaghan- brother of Miriam O’Callaghan.
Any fucking Andrews- all related to Tubridy, McSavage etc
Dermot Ahern- brother in law of Tribune pol cor Shane Coleman.
(I’m sure there’s more, incestous nation that it is).
completely and utterly self-serving crank. Jean Byrne will be on the box….mmmmm…..Jean Byrne, box. Where was I? The name is dodgy alright, I should change my name by deed poll to “talking total and absolute bollix.”
“They can promise absolutely anything they think the public want to hear, safe in the knowledge that they’ll never be blamed when they fail to deliver on it.”
Yep, Sinn Fein are just Fianna Fail in nappies… (currently cloth but Pampers all round after the election)
David Quinn, vile specimen and Director of the Iona Institute – is the Iona Institute the same institute that repeatedly gave paedophile priests a clean bill of health and recommended they be returned to parishes?
Unfortunately not, Christy. That was the Granada Institute I think, run by the St. John of God crowd.
maggot could be a tax-exile and I’d nominate Mary Harney for him. Before she has her snatch trimmed by NASA on her expenses
I wouldn’t touch anything peadar has shagged,
Ah, thanks Conan, unfortunate indeed
Itchy. I like your Manifesto. I might put it to the testo.
itchy who will be the minister for music a most important portfolio
“itchy who will be the minister for music a most important portfolio” = Brush Shiels
How about Fill3rup?
Careful now
“If the Dail elections are not opened to Irish passport holders abroad then I fully intend to show Irish people abroad how to have their say in a way which no Irish government will enjoy.”
That sounds interesting Captain. What do you have in mind. Which Irish people abroad do you mean?
Itchy will be Minister for Racquets so that he can say “New balls, please” when the need arises.
will brooke shields do murty as brush is a little down at the min
“Enda Kenny is a fucking dick.” He must be one happy son of a bitch. There aint nothin’ as happy as a fucking dick.
““Enda Kenny is a fucking dick.” He must be one happy son of a bitch. There aint nothin’ as happy as a fucking dick.”
English as spoken by a true gunslinger.
At my stage in life, I would prefer a long stay in a monastery, quiet, good books and good wine /beer.
I keep misreading the title of the epistle above as ‘Enda Kenny is a Fucking Duck’.
Anyways.
Anne on Irish people abroad voting I reckon it would be fair to say Irish passport holders born in Ireland.
You couldn’t administer those claiming Irish descent particularly in hhhhhhhhAAAAAAAmerica.
For example Christine Aguilera I see from the papers has an Ecuadorian Da and her Ma is German-Irish-Something-something. That’d be stretching it a bit- like Christina herself does fairly regularly.
Thanks Captain, I know who Irish people abroad would be. My question was which Irish people abroad do you intend on informing? There are quite a few. And what in particular do you intend on informing them of that the Irish government won’t enjoy. Did I read this wrong maybe? “If the Dail elections are not opened to Irish passport holders abroad then I fully intend to show Irish people abroad how to have their say in a way which no Irish government will enjoy” What are you talking about is my question?
I’m not into Christina myself.. but I guess if she has some Irish heritage, so be it.
This exchange of inanities gets more grotesque by the minute.
I am diving to 40 fathoms.
yeah, I’d have to be big and hand over minister for music to some youngster like filler…though I’m still very unsure about his recommendation of yerman Blake. i’m still stuck in the 80′s american punk
My only input I’d insist on would be to replace the angelus with this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tegoarLJKn8
that “Dirty Tricks” article is interesting because it’s in The Sunday Independent which usually has no truck portraying FF as the cunts that they are. A bit odd. Are they abandoning ship?
I was thinking the exact same thing reading that ‘Dirty Tricks’ thing. The only sense I can make for them publishing it is if it was a damage-limitation exercise. -Better that they release a sanitised version first, that completely sidesteps the question of who instigated it maybe?
If it wasn’t orchestrated and implemented by the upper echelons of FF, who the Hell did do it? Why don’t they ask that question?
Itchy, notice how they go to great pains to remove blame from FF;
The identity of the people behind the attempted ambush of Mr Kenny in 2007 is known to the Sunday Independent. They refused to comment on the record, but confirmed the event when contacted last week.
No member of the Fianna Fail election team is believed to have had any knowledge of the dirty tricks.
However, a source familiar with what happened, said: “There is no doubt that this was organised, no doubt that it took place. It was real black ops stuff — crazy in almost every way.”
It can be said with certainty that the organisers are known to be Fianna Fail supporters. There is no suggestion, however, that the tactic was either known about or sanctioned by the Fianna Fail leadership.
It’s a lot easier to believe that the Sunday Independent is lying rather than that they’ve changed sides.
itchy, I liked your itchy manifesto and the ensuing riding jokes earlier. I commented, but forgot to put my name in, and evil wordpress loses your comment when you do that.
Also, I walked back up the aisle to ‘Baby I Love you’ :s
Joan Bertraccoon – one of you would
And a Gift Grub moment (play Gift Vincent Brown): http://www.todayfm.com/shows/weekdays/ian-dempsey-breakfast-show/Gift-Grub.aspx
Enda said he’s going to reduce the Taoiseach’s salary to €200K. I never knew it was even over that. When you add expenses to that, it’s a pretty big income. Practically all living expenses are paid. You’d hardly put your hand in your pocket.
The whole ministerial salary scale is ridiculous/criminal Holemaster. Though an article in the Economist earlier this year showed an international comparison, and the surprising top of the scale is singapore, over $2million…
http://www.economist.com/node/16525240
Did anyone else see something recently about Labour proposing a televised inquiry into what went on in the banks, with the power to subpoena and prosecute ex-ministers?
I know I didn’t dream it, but I can’t find it anywhere.
Okay, maybe I dreamt the ‘prosecute’ bit.
Fanny McGhee
February 7th, 2011 @ 9:15 pm
And a Gift Grub moment (play Gift Vincent Brown): http://www.todayfm.com/shows/weekdays/ian-dempsey-breakfast-show/Gift-Grub.aspx
:)
Gerry Adams :)
pat rabitte said it on the vb show last week git. he was saying it worked when they did it on tg4 for dirt enquiry (i think it was DIRT?). not sure about the prosecution bit. i did notice he went all coy when pensions were described as obscene
Aye, its a funny one alright itchy!
I realise elections are largely about posturing for most politicians, but it’s so depressing to see the shower of fuckwits out there. Thank god/satan/allah/buddha/xenu/fsm that there’s humour (like twenty and the contributors to blog) out there to make it even somewhat bearable.
But then once this is over, we’ll be stuck with that Mayo toerag and his band of merry wankstains bickering with the Labourious cunts behind the scenes. All the while people have the mother of all dildos rammed further and further into the darkened crevices of their wage or welfare.
Out of it all, I’m hoping for a decent opposition, one’s whose interest it is to hound these cunts daily. And maybe give them a couple of decent, rabid bites along the way.
I need a drink.
ah shite. http://img809.imageshack.us/i/dameenda.jpg/
Enda is a dry auld shite alright. No question. But, I’ll take a boring fucker as my accountant every time over the guy who’s the life and soul of the party. You know the type, likes a pint, likes a sing song, does impressions of mediocre Irish golfers. Or, cunts like B-B-Bertie.
A televised debate isn’t going to change my opinion. What I would like to know is, who the fuck to TV3 think they are? They brodcast vacuous shite 24/7. A couple of hours of VB a week and they think it entitles them to muddle in the most important election since the 1920′s. And why the fuck is Mick ‘I’m as clean as whistle, bouy’ Martin invited? TV3 should be concentrating all of their resources on producing ‘Irelands top 50 sexiest, richest, celebrity hunks most embarrasing love splits’. God knows they’ll need the revenue it’ll generate if they’re ever to sign up Amanda Brunker. It wouldn’t suprise me if they got one of those lunatic bints from Midday to take Endas seat.
By the way, did anyone see Michael Martins cult of personality propaganda after the news on Sunday evening? My dog hated it. Probably because I kicked the shit out off her after I watched it.
Hey, Twenty, go easier on VinB. Precisely because he is the type of chap you describe him as, he is the kind of chap we want to keep. And what decent bloke, when all considered, is not just a bit of a cunt?
He’s perhaps a bit more of a cunt than you think because of his anti-Israel stance, therefore going so easy on Michael Martin’s ridiculously insouciant wander around Gaza. And Enda endorsed the silly cunt’s trip. Martin was the first and only EU Foreign Minister to have been granted access to that fat-bastard filled bit of land governed by genocidal terrorists the fat cunts voted in by themselves. The reversal of the Potemkin village notion was in play then as it is now with that dick Enda.
Go after the real cunts, not the cunts who are against the cunts who’ve made it difficult for the rest of us c.., sorry, bastards, to live a decent life.
Sean
The thing with Enda and VB goes back long before the whiskey/dark room remark, VB’s put the boot to Enda a couple of times before that, nastily- Kenny fucking hates him. And apart from that, why should he risk giving a soundbite to leader-of-the-cunts Martin? The very best thing Martin could hope to gain from that debate would be to leave Kenny, the Fianna Fuckers single greatest threat, damaged. I’m not a huge fan of EK, but I’ve never thought he was stupid, and in this I think he’s playing it smart. THe fucking balls on those fianna fail cunts- repackage with some flippity-floppity flim flam, put skinnier slimier cunt out front, and we’re good to go again boys- they have a plan to fix the country. Their last plan cost 80+ billion as of the end of last year, what’ll part 2 be? Bomb what’s left of the hospitals and old folks homes? They are the scum-princes of Ireland, no doubt.
Kenny and Brown what a pair of cunts, they had no problem meeting up just before Christmas for pints together in the Gingerman pub, the Gingerman is Enda’s local when he is in Dublin BTW. If the spinless twat can drink and laugh with him on a night out then the least he can do is speak to him on National television, if only to prove to the country that he is as inept as he looks.
What the fuck would FG gain by going on this Micky mouse televised debate?! They would only lose because all the morons would go back to FF after thinking that clown Martin looked better on telly.
The only way this debate should go ahead is without FF, they should fuck off as they’re no longer one of the two biggest parties in Ireland according to polls.
Loved the woman on TV3 News this evening “I’m voting Sinn Fein, at least we know they’re crooks”
I thought tonight’s debate was fucking brilliant!!
That ain’t Inda in your graphic; it’s Victor Garber (Alias etc). Uncanny resemblance, though.
No, pretty sure it’s Enda because I made it (via some kind of Obamaifier)
So, this is the one going forward for the Best Post Award – It’s a good ‘un alright. Fingers crossed for it and all the best for the other categories too.
I was going to say something about you winning but it felt a little Charlie Sheen-esque. (Hope you do though)
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Politics indeed is shite… the same shite language spoken in every country it would seem. Crackingly good post though.