UCD AND its Student Political Parties

Het-Field

With the 2007 General Election only a year away, politics will play a major role in public life over the next twelve months. UCD offers you the chance to join any political party you want. Next septrember on Freshers Week, which Party will you join. Heres a list of UCD'S

Ogra Finna Fail
Fine Gael
Green Party
Young Progressive Democrats (with the sexy vice chairman)
Labour Youth
Socialist Youth
Socialist Workers Party
Ogra Sinn Fein


WHICH PARTY WILL YOU JOIN

Sangre

Is it just me or does anyone else try to avoid associating with anyone involved in student politics?

Chakar

Het-Field is the Vice Chair of UCD Young Progressive Democrats!!-

Sangre

Het-Field: Can I be your friend Sangre?

Sangre: DENIED!

dajaffa

Well personally I'm political-party free and proud.

If I HAD to join one, it'd be the greens, purely from the point of view that the dangers our environment are grave and worldwide, political leaders aren't doing enough (apart from the nordic countries)...

Granted UCD Greens disassociated themselves with the "Green Party", + they're just about the environment or something.... seems a bit stoopid to me. If they wanted that surely they'd change their name to make this clear

Het-Field

Sangre wrote:

Het-Field: Can I be your friend Sangre?

Sangre: DENIED!

Well if your minging, mabye i wouldnt want to be your friend anyway. So there

Sangre

Het-Field wrote:

Well if your minging, mabye i wouldnt want to be your friend anyway. So there

You choose your male friends on how they look? Interesting....

Het-Field

Sangre wrote:

You choose your male friends on how they look? Interesting....

Are you trying to seduce me Mr Sangre ?

Sangre

You student politicians are really on the cutting edge of humour.

Het-Field

you better believe it biatch

pretty*monster

Wouldn't join any of those parties in a fit

Red Alert

fine gael are an alright bunch, especially with pythia around the oplace.

the ucd greens really neecx to chill out.

TheVan

Het-Field wrote:

you better believe it biatch

Just lost my vote

Red Alert wrote:

fine gael are an alright bunch, especially with pythia around the oplace.

Would you not vote on who shares your political ideology rather than who you like to hang around with?


No Irish party actually reflects what the Irish people want as a nation, they merely let people know what they are offering and we pick the best of a bad bunch. The PD's have gone the right direction by not using the whip (insert predictable joke here Grimes or Boneless) on moral issues.

Time Magazine

TheVan wrote:

No Irish party actually reflects what the Irish people want as a nation, they merely let people know what they are offering and we pick the best of a bad bunch.

Uh huh. There is consensus out of there of what the Irish people as a nation want and no political party have the brains to pick up on it, nor has anyone managed to convey this message?

Well said mate, well said.

Socialist Workers' Party for you tbh.

Blush_01

*Ooooowwwwwwwwwww*

I think that says it all.

Manic Moran

Sangre wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else try to avoid associating with anyone involved in student politics?

No, I had a similar policy when I was in UCD.

Then again, I was in Gamesoc and Sci-Fi, so my opinion on who is worth associating with might be considered suspect by some.

NTM

Riamfada

well you see if somone was to make the decision for you? Say me for example, abolish all political parties and make one man run the country on behalf of the people. Rule by decree ftw.


Seriously it COULD work and especially in ireland where the electorate are too apothetic to even vote.

boneless

I can see this thread descending in flames already....

scop

I'd join any of them other than the PD's.

TheVan

So you would join Sinn Féin before the PD's?

Join a party who are linked with cold-blooded killers, racists and sectarians, a party that wants us to leave Europe etc?

But you would also join Fine Gael, who are an extremely pro-Europe party?

Seems like you haven't thought this one out man, just making a knee-jerk reaction to the PDs?

Het-Field

He'd also join the Socialist Workers Party who in a recent speech referred to Hezbollah etc as freedom fighters and agents of liberation. See the link below. They also want people in the North to renounce their Unionist values before moving anywhere

www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=13064

Jonny Arson

Ogra Finna Fail - Rather slit my throat with a chainsaw
Fine Gael - No
Green Party - No
Young Progressive Democrats (with the sexy vice chairman) - See Ogra Finna Fail
Labour Youth - Meh...
Socialist Youth - No
Socialist Workers Party - No
Ogra Sinn Fein - Rather catch AIDS

oh well, time to rejoin the Communist Party then

scop

TheVan wrote:

So you would join Sinn Féin before the PD's?

Join a party who are linked with cold-blooded killers, racists and sectarians, a party that wants us to leave Europe etc?

But you would also join Fine Gael, who are an extremely pro-Europe party?

Seems like you haven't thought this one out man, just making a knee-jerk reaction to the PDs?

It was a joke, but sure I'd join Sinn Fein before the PD's.

scop

Het-Field wrote:

He'd also join the Socialist Workers Party who in a recent speech referred to Hezbollah etc as freedom fighters and agents of liberation. See the link below. They also want people in the North to renounce their Unionist values before moving anywhere

www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=13064

The SWP dont count; its more of a social club for wannabe jihadists

mikemac

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

oh well, time to rejoin the Communist Party then

There's a Communist Party in Ireland?
Never knew that

Het-Field

Yep, there is a communist party in Ireland. Its a very small thing, and most of its members jsut believe in the ideology, and take very little action. One of their recent leaderw was a bona fide Stalinist though

Sangre

I don't think I'd call Stalin a communist tbh.

Jonny Arson

micmclo wrote:

There's a Communist Party in Ireland?
Never knew that

ask Boneless for membership details.....

Sangre

Communism, that little boy in the corner who used to always put his hand in the fire and could never understand why it kept getting burnt.

arbeitsscheuer

Sangre wrote:

I don't think I'd call Stalin a communist tbh.

Most sensible thing you've ever said.

Don't like any of the major political parties here tbh - tho I've considered joining the CPI alright, for what it's worth.

Oh, and I was in the SWP for 2 years. But in my defence, I was young and stupid.

Now I'm old and marginally less stupid.

scop

You were in the SWP Seb? When was this, never seen you about as I strugged to sell the rival SP paper. We could have had a battle.