Taking down of Campaign posters and litter

jozi

Not sure if this is in the right section...


So the posters and signs you see all over the place on more or less every light poles have to be taken down again, which I guess has to be done.

So, on my way home from college earlier around nearly all light poles what do I see lying on the ground? The tie-ribs used for putting the posters up :rolleyes: Why is it they can cut them, take the poster down and take the tie-rib out of the poster and make the posters vanish and leave the tie-ribs on ground There was even a bin next to a light pole with tie-ribs on the ground wtf

Are people (paid to take them down?) so lazy as not to get rid of them or do they not care about their city? Bit of a rubish rant to day, told a you lad in a Lexus to bring his rubish home rather than dump it in the ditch when I pulled up next to him in the car, he didn't take to kindly to my comment :rolleyes:

Maybe this should be posted in an environmental section or similar

prinz

It is an issue. Actually somebody made the brilliant suggestion on this forum of different parties and groups getting colour coded plastic ties so they could be fined for leaving them behind as they'd be quickly identifiable.

jozi

That is a good idea, can't they already get fined for leaving them up?

What stumped me the most was the tie-ribs on the ground no more than 2m from a bin

prinz

jozi wrote: »

That is a good idea, can't they already get fined for leaving them up?

Ah sure who knows which ties belong to each party, or campaign group etc. There's also growing support for doing away with all the stupid posters totally. They are eyesores and add nothing to any debate really.

jozi wrote: »

What stumped me the most was the tie-ribs on the ground no more than 2m from a bin

Welcome to Ireland.:rolleyes:

mikemac

prinz wrote: »

There's also growing support for doing away with all the stupid posters totally. They are eyesores and add nothing to any debate really.

But how will parties advertise?
Not every party can afford a 3 minute party political broadcast on RTE. If it's free I'm open to being corrected
Radio advertising costs money.
And believe it or not, many parts of the country can't get dial-up internet let alone broadband so voters struggle to check websites to get informed

A bulk run of posters can be affordable and the volunteers who put them up don't get paid.
I agree they are eyesores but should exchequer funds be given to smaller parties to help them?

Rb

I didn't even notice tie ribs on the ground walking in to college this morning, was too busy looking up at the lampposts and only seeing the odd stupid socialist poster left, the overwhelming majority of the shite is gone

namloc1980

mikemac wrote: »

But how will parties advertise?
Not every party can afford a 3 minute party political broadcast on RTE. If it's free I'm open to being corrected
Radio advertising costs money.
And believe it or not, many parts of the country can't get dial-up internet let alone broadband so voters struggle to check websites to get informed

A bulk run of posters can be affordable and the volunteers who put them up don't get paid.
I agree they are eyesores but should exchequer funds be given to smaller parties to help them?

Agree that posters are an important part of a campaign but there needs to be some minimum standards implemented which governs what you can and cannot put on a poster. No baseless tripe such as €1.84 wage or 'Yes for investment' which can't be backed up by what's actually in the Treaty etc. or whatever the referendum might be about.

Also no emotive posters such as Libertas' 'crying girl with crazy green eyes' should be allowed...they add nothing to the debate and are rather weird.

If this campaign showed anything it was the shockingly poor standard of posters on both sides.....some sort of minimum standards must be implemented to drag these posters out of the gutter.

f3qh5g0z6vc7ob

That is disgraceful!!! the government will spend millions now to get someone to clean these all up!!!!

And an other million on recycling advertisements.

not good

Rb

Sergio Young Flapjack wrote: »

That is disgraceful!!! the government will spend millions now to get someone to clean these all up!!!!

And an other million on recycling advertisements.

not good

What's that you say? Government creating jobs after the Lisbon Treaty?

Why, that sounds great!

Liam Byrne

mikemac wrote: »

But how will parties advertise?

I agree they are eyesores but should exchequer funds be given to smaller parties to help them?

Absolutely not! Considering the amount of bull**** offered and discussed about the posters that had the stupid "Yes for Jobs" slogan and how irrelevant and misleading that was, the posters are a complete waste of OUR money and serve absolutely no purpose.

Likewise, the fiasco of the "Bertie's Team" :rolleyes: posters from the General Election shows just how fickle the arguments re "recognising" candidates, while my core argument would be that if you don't recognise a name from news reports of actually achieving something, then you shouldn't vote for them.

prinz

mikemac wrote: »

But how will parties advertise?

I don't know about you but I don't vote for people based on their posters. You already have people going door to door, fliers, literature etc. Parties get on news programming free of charge, get to say their bit on Prime Time and what not for free. Every newspaper in the land carries a political section, everyone should know what party stands for what etc, if they don't a bright coloured poster featuring one mugshot or another won't help tbh.

dvpower

mikemac wrote: »

But how will parties advertise?

Stand on a soapbox outside churches.
Knock on doors.

marco_polo

Sergio Young Flapjack wrote: »

That is disgraceful!!! the government will spend millions now to get someone to clean these all up!!!!

And an other million on recycling advertisements.

not good

Every group has to take down their own posters by law.

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Absolutely not! Considering the amount of bull**** offered and discussed about the posters that had the stupid "Yes for Jobs" slogan and how irrelevant and misleading that was, the posters are a complete waste of OUR money and serve absolutely no purpose.

If you have evidence that irish taxpayers money was used by any of the campaign groups I would urge you to report that to the relevant authorities.

turgon

The ties should at least have the name of the party on them. I dont see why such a law couldnt be made. They were all over the place this morning when I went to college. A big eyesore.

thebman

I don't see why they are needed at all. Most are gone except Coir ones in my area but then I didn't expect anything else from them.

cornbb

This must have been the most memorable poster of the campaign for me:



Taken in Cork. I'm almost convinced that Terry Gilliam was involved in its creation.

thebman

lol that poster is just weird.

BlitzKrieg

I hurt my hand over the weekend earing down a Coir poster outside my apartment block...serves me right

and that weird poster is from some kerry crowd thats worse then coir supposable...

View

cornbb wrote: »

This must have been the most memorable poster of the campaign for me:



Taken in Cork. I'm almost convinced that Terry Gilliam was involved in its creation.

Given the result, it would appear that the Guardian Angels were on the side of the Yes campaign. Was there no end to the "bias" against the No campaign?