Trustworthy Politicians

Yenwod

If you had a choice, doesn't matter if s/he is a leader of a party...but from our current selection, who would you trust and who do you think would do the best job to lead the country out of this economic crisis?

Do you think Brian Cowan is the man for the job?

Is there such thing as a trustworthy politician?

Latchy

Yenwod wrote: »

Is there such thing as a trustworthy politician?

No ,if only because history has shown us that trust in leaders ,politicians ,tryants or otherwise is fatal .Well meaning intelligent people are as corrupt as anybody esle at the end of the day ,with egos to match .Think of balir , thatcher or more extreme Mugabe

thebman

No such thing as a trustworthy leader. I don't think Brian Cowen is the worst but he is proving me more wrong every day

dresden8

Why do people want to trust their politicians?

Look at the job they're doing, who do they work for? Who gains from their decisions? Do they do a good job?

Constantly evaluate them on those criteria, if they're not working for you, fnck them out on their ear.

Trust doesn't come into it.

As soon as we move away from "trusting" and "liking" our politicians we might end up with a working political system.

thebman

You have to have enough trust in them to vote for them in the first place.

Yenwod

Well moving away from the trust issue for a minute, do we have a politician strong enough (if we can forget about parties etc) and with enough charisma to rally the country behind him/her and support them in getting us out of this crisis?

dave-higgz

thebman wrote: »

No such thing as a trustworthy leader.

Barack Obama??............. Anyone?

Yenwod wrote: »

Well moving away from the trust issue for a minute, do we have a politician strong enough (if we can forget about parties etc) and with enough charisma to rally the country behind him/her and support them in getting us out of this crisis?

Short answer, no.

Eamonn Gilmore seems to be the best we've got but It'll take a lot of support and historic change to make him taoiseach.

spareman

dave-higgz wrote: »

Eamonn Gilmore seems to be the best we've got but It'll take a lot of support and historic change to make him taoiseach.

Here here, Eamo has always worked hard for the people, from his humble beginning's in the Ballybrack ward as a councilor to leader of the opposition today. I remember him from when I was a kid, always out knocking on doors even when no election was coming he would call round every now and again and make sure everybody was happy.

Dannyboy83

To the OP, on a spectrum:

Most tolerable end of spectrum:
http://www.shane-ross.ie/

Least tolerable end of spectrum:
http://www.willieodea.ie/


When Willie's day comes, I'll personally pay for the following to be engraved on his headstone:

Here lies Willie O Dea
"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates me from the animals... except the weasel."

diverdriver

It would be a disaster for Ireland and Gilmore's career if he became Taoiseach. The combination of left wing attitudes and idealism would result either result in radical decisions to the detriment of the country or else he would have to compromise his principles so much, he would rapidly fall from grace with his supporters and the left wing of his government.

The fatal flaw in any left wing, socialist grouping is the divergence in views which invariably leads to splits. The only really successfull left wing governments are invariably authoritarian. That is the danger they bring.

tomcosgrave

Diverdriver, where has this happened? It doesn't seem to have happened in Sweden, to name one...

Yenwod

Here lies Willie O Dea
"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates me from the animals... except the weasel."