Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI Poll (January 2010)

Red_Marauder

Scofflaw wrote: »

Opposition parties criticise everything, not just the enormous wrongs. The websites of opposition TDs are stuffed with little outraged attacks on entirely reasonable government actions, from carbon-emission VRT through GM-free pigfeed to the banning of bog-cutting on SACs. It makes it clear that the point is to attack government actions because they are government actions - but we know that in government, the current opposition would be doing similar things themselves.

Have to agree with this.

I support Fine Gael, but the other day I got one of these little rage messages in my email inbox about a clamper who had a heap of previous convictions.

It included the following story

A woman’s car was clamped while she was helping her 86 year old father walk across to the barbers in his Zimmer frame.
An 85 year old pensioner was clamped because her ticket had fallen onto her driver’s seat. It was still visible and readable from outside the car.
Numerous customers were clamped while going into the shops to get change.
Bins were placed in front of the pay and display signs, leaving motorists unaware that they had to pay for parking.
Cars were clamped when the ticket machine was out of order.

For goodness sake, how can a party in their position be sending out ridiculous emails like this on every tiny little issue.

A few years back someone in marketing with FG advised them to stop issuing press releases on every tiny issue, and to focus on the big stories that differentiated them from Fianna Fail, and actually made a difference to people. Newspapers and the media appreciated it, and it did FG a lot of favours.

Lately, they seem to have reverted to their old ways, issuing statement on everything from NAMA to people being clamped while crossing the street... it is extremely tiresome and ineffective. Nobody pays attention to jibberish.