So far this is the extent of my interaction with the political parties during this election campaign:
Labour – I received a missive via the postman with some guff about how awesome Labour were and then some chap posted a Henry Upton flyer through my door. No knock on the door.
Fine Gael – A Catherine Byrne flyer posted through my door in the early evening. No knock on the door.
Fianna Fail – none.
Green Party – none.
Sinn Fein – an Aengus Ó Snodaigh flyer. No knock on the door.
Independents – none.
As I am mostly at home, bar the occasional visit to Ron’s for his famous carvery lunch (pint of Guinness, packet of Bacon Fries), I would welcome a knock at the door in order to discuss the various policies of those standing on my stoop.
Still, there’s some time to go between now and polling day. However, I would put some money on with Patrick Power and his bookmaking empire that the situation, regarding face to face interaction with the candidates, remains the same until then.
Especially re: FF and the Greens. Who I’d love to see most of all.
I was just thinking the same thing this morning – wait till you see – this will be a shambolic election. The Irish people are going to fuck up their opportunity to change Ireland for the better.
Are you keeping Basterface on a diet in preparation for the happy occasion?
He gets too crotchety around the house unless I feed him but his appetite for snacking is beyond compare.
They won’t call. The entire gombeenocracy of the three main parties in Ireland know damn well that people are angry with politics and politicians in general.
Fine Gael and Labour are just doing the old Fianna Fail ‘independent’ trick of appearing to be in opposition while quietly nodding all the shite through the Dail to which the people object.
Fine Gael and Labour don’t have to canvass. Fianna Fail are too scared to do so and the Green Party know they are going to be annihilated anyway so won’t bother.
It’ll be a piece of promotional arsewipe paid for by the taxpayer shoved through letterboxes in the main.
You won’t get the chance to vent your spleen. Not by sitting by the door anyway. You have to go look for them.
And most people won’t do that because they are scared of doing something different than everybody else.
Its a damp conservative rock in the Atlantic at the westernmost fringe of Europe and therefore inherently conservative and restrained.
Not popular or prudento point this out but its the truth which is why its unpopular.
That’s about the extend of it Twenty… but, but we also get to see their ugly mugs all over town on posters. Forget the policies, it’s how they look in the posters that counts. Right?
They just need to get as many posters hung up as possible. That way their name sticks in your head. No matter about the policies.
The prettiest of the ugly bunch gets elocted.
I think the general population are much more informed than anytime previous to now. People are getting political on their asses.. and therefore the people just have to be avoided.
Thats about all I’ve had too and me with my extensive list of demands…. sorry, questions.
I really hope that Gerry Adams calls though.
Is it just me or doe Aengus Ó Snodaigh look like Grendel from Beowolf?
The Only candidate thats come near us was Michael Noonans lackies,the other evening,about 40 of them decended on the estate,only the chosen few houses got the man himself though.
Anyone listen to Sinn Feins economic policy this morning? It was like a six years old.pulling figures out of the air,anf when questioned as to where the money was coming from? “We’ll tax the bold rich man…d’uh”
Although we all know if by some miracle they did get in,our money worries would go away,coinciding with a rash of high profile bank robberies across Europe..
i feel like itchy this morning..
“high profile bank robberies across europe”
That would do it for me, getting our own money back, like.
it’s ever since you covered your house in tinfoil twenty, true they can no longer intercept your thoughts (they follow you on twitter now anyway) but it also puts off visitors
Going around canvassing for votes is a bit like begging really isn’t it? Knock Knock – give us your vote please…ah go on. It reminds me of when I was a chap and you’d have to go around from door to door selling lines for some draw or other.
I could not give a bollix about meeting any of the candidates – while I’d like the idea of questioning one or two of them past experience would suggest that the I’d only get the usual glib politico shit.
however, is it beyond the capability of each party to produce a booklet outlining their policies?, rather than the circus flyers that normally get pushed through the letter box.
Is it official party policy to relate to the electorate like they were children?
Reminds me of wee Shamey Brennan’s ‘handwritten’ notes in the letterbox, “Sorry I missed you, Seamus.”
If the Mountain won’t call… I’m sure you know where they live. I have the attack cats all starved and hungry for some FF meat with their Greens.
Listen to how all the Cork candidates out sympathy each other over the plane crash this morning at Cork Airport. They’ll be clambering over each other to appear more concerned than the next.
They’ll jump on anything for a vote.
HM, Mickey Martin’s HSE disclaimers are hilarious… he laid the plans but doesn’t know what transpired afterwards between Bert and Harney, despite being in cabinet with them.
They might call if you removed those,
“ Canvassers, fuck off and die horribly ”
signs you put up by the door-bell.
Cork airport – Jesus Christ man – looks like 8 dead too – jesus jesus.
The UVF’s 2/11..
Too soon?
Never too soon.
seemingly brain lemminghan was doing some canvassing around my neck of the woods (blanchardstown) over the last day or two. and by canvassing, i mean sitting in his government car with his government driver while minions knocked on doors. spineless fuck. apart from that, nothing except flyers. and the bastards print them on shiny paper, not the nice absorbent stuf. like their flyers, none of the candidates have any substance to them but will go to any lengths to make sure shit doesn’t stick to them
Over the last few days I’ve been involved in a very worryingly sinister incident concerning a canvasser for Fianna Fail, a citizen, how the citizens opinions were related back to a Fianna Fail secretary and how the citizens employer was contacted via a third party concerning his political opinions.
I will post it when I can in a manner which doesn’t show who I am talking about. Which is a joke as well. FF are embedded in irish society in a very scummy way.
So newswhip.ie had a twitter comment on its news list which says that FF are paying for their Facebook ads on a per-click basis, which is fucking brilliant, because that means you can cost FF money by clicking on their ads!!!
How good is that!!!
I’ve no Facebook access from work, but by Jesus am I hitting those ads about a hundred times tonight when I get home. So if someone just happened to post a link to a page where there was an FF ad…..
Someone. Anyone at all….
Just saw about that crash. Nasty.
The crash looks horrific. Surely that just shouldn’t happen these days. Puts you off flying…
I’ve had, so far, one extremely upbeat leaflet about FG’s five point recovery plan through the letter box, and that’s it. And seen quite a lot of stuff about Stephen Donnelly through friends and Facebook. A friend of mine is canvassing for Anne FErris for labour, so I’ve heard her personal viewpoint.
I nearly drove the car into the roundabout in a fit of cynical laughter when I saw Dick Roche’s campaing poster. He spells out a list of attributes beginning with the letters
D
E
C
E
N
T
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Maybe it’s just a misspelling, and it’s meant to be DESCENT.
Sigh.
Anyone watch The Pipe last night on TG4? I’ll be asking Gormley about that when he calls.
HM:he’s just say,”well thats not in my backyard ,so i could give a tupenny fuck”.
he’ll,jesus im typing like a special needs today,,
you are special fill, very special
The local Fine Gael-er called to the door the other night, well his canvassers did anyway, but I wasn’t able to talk to him. Not that I really wanted to anyway.
Apart from that it’s only been leaflets in the door. Some addressed to us and others just a mail-drop.
No Green or FF leaflets though, mainly Labour and Independent and the Shinners I think.
I don’t know really what I’d say to any of them if they did call, FF and the Greens I mean, they’re not getting my vote and that’s about the height of it!
Dick Roche? More like
D
e
C
u
nt
t
I wanted more ‘t’
Cos he’s the cunTiest?
Dick
Idiot
Cunt
Knob
wonderful if he didn’t get re-elected
I know someone who invited him to their … 21st? No, 30th, I think. He walked in the door and spoiled the party: ‘Yeah, it was grand… until Dick Roche showed up and spoiled the party’.
Too many favours, and then everyone thinks you’re the man. Even the intelligent people. Across the whole country, everyone working like that.
That’s what’s wrong
Tht’s it, Jo. Same up this end of the country with a few over-fed porcine FF reps who’ve had their faces in the trough and their hands in our pockets and act as if it’s their personal fiefdom. And the area littered with wannabes of whatever political colour who are no different to them and couldn’t lead a thirsty horse to water, let alone a country.
The Gaelic Irish have always been a rabble of warring back-stabbing sneaky bastards. The main reason for the English plantations being so widespread and enduring was the collaboration of local big men who were paid off by the English Crown.
Nothing much has changed except that the English crown has been replaced by other overlords like the EU and the international financial machine.
We’re still the grubby little peasants we always were.
Yes we are. Sigh.
This is democracy’s flaw, maybe. I’m still leading towards a benign monarchy. Instead of a benighted democracy.
Not peculiar to us, HM. The Tribalism + Colonialism recipe for illusionary independence is tried and tested the world over.
so it was you jo – and desparados drumm and HM , who did this ..
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/security-beefed-up-after-roche-used-as-human-shield-in-raid-1576215.html?start=3
did you have a trigger malfunction
Illusory, even. Or delusionary.
Sniffle, since it was Druid’s Glen you know that the “three masked men confronted Mr Roche with a sawn-off shotgun” are more likely to have had an Anglo Irish Bank connection.
First one just been. FG
Needed reinforcements for a finish poor creature.
True Conan. But we’re in denial of it in general.
We need a major look in the mirror at all the preconceived notions we have of ourselves. I always think treatment of Travelers was a damning reflection on us as a society. I’m guilty of it too. It’s always been OK to openly revile them and name call and treat them like crap all the time. That’s what we are capable of in Ireland if it’s seen to be acceptable by the majority.
The culture of the stroke and the fast one is not born out of years of oppression. It was always there.
and as you know conan, HM is one of the senior bondholders
I own your asses.
Yes, HMaster.
Incidentally, what do these bonds look like and how do we know they’re real? Are they ‘virtual’ or real and would printing/forging a few of them do us any good?
They’re made of the skin of newborn lambs and imprinted with an ink made of the blood, sweat and tears of children yet to be born.
Wahhh ha ha haaa.
Excellent, newborns and unborns aplenty so that’s easily done. Hacking them into the Central Bank’s network should be easy too, since firng a few folks isn’t really the same as tightening things up.
Saw an independant face to face while visiting my father, decent enough guy until he started comparing himself to Obama.
In my own area I’ve only had a Labour flyer dropped in the letterbox like a thief in the night..THATS IT.
They know people will be voting regardless of whether they get to ask their little list of questions so why bother possibly risking your vote by showing your face and maybe even getting some abuse, spineless cowardly tactics, but I didn’t really expect any less.
Conor Pope was funny on Ray Darcy – said he was in work when he hear Bertie Ahern was canvassing on HIS ROAD for whatever guy he’s canvassing for. Said he was ready to leap in a taxi just for the chance to answer the door to Bertie. So close!
This chap – Aengus Ó Snodaigh, is he related to Dr. Snoddy of Dr. Finlay’s Casebook fame??
Pretty much the same Twenty in my part of Dublin South Central except the shinners aren’t bothering to leaflet in this leafy corner of Terenure. Plenty of drops from Labour and FG but only one (FG) caller. No sign of any FF or the other lot. Plenty of posters IN THE WRONG CONSTITUENCY of that annoying Sommerville guy – its bad enough having to look at the posters of your oown candidates without having to look at the people you can’t even give a low preference too
The greens were leaflet-ing at Beechwood Luas this morning, I didn’t have the time to get involved but it might have been fun.