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What would it take for some to stop voting FF?

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  • #32
    thebigbiffo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    well i always voted FF - my dad was fairly heavily involved with them down through the years and i've a lovely photo taken outside my gaff of myself and charlie haughey when i was 4 (i look at it in that same way as if you'd had a photo taken with charles manson or al capone).

    i wont be voting FF (until they've sorted themselves out at least) because they are giving mine/our money to bondholders (see gamblers in the dictionary). i could almost forgive them 'causing' the crash...i dont believe any party would have stopped it though...but deciding to hand over our money to anglo's bondholders?? unforgiveable.

    i just dont know who else to vote for party-wise - they're all crooks - but i wont be voting FF for a while anyway.


  • #33
    imwatchingyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭imwatchingyou


    guys this will be my first time voting,and im definitely not going to vote for FF,but i don't know much about politics,i really would like to learn about other parties,so i can decide who to vote for,can someone help me please
    any useful links about different parties would be appreciated
    thanks


  • #34
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    imwatchingyou wrote: »
    guys this will be my first time voting,and im definitely not going to vote for FF,but i don't know much about politics,i really would like to learn about other parties,so i can decide who to vote for,can someone help me please
    any useful links about different parties would be appreciated
    thanks

    Sorry bud but this is something you need to make your own mind up on. Each party has its principles and policies on its website, which you can google. there are also discussion forums such as the politics forum on boards and others that offer analysis on those policies.


  • #35
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,263 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    thebigbiffo wrote: »
    well i always voted FF - my dad was fairly heavily involved with them down through the years and i've a lovely photo taken outside my gaff of myself and charlie haughey when i was 4 (i look at it in that same way as if you'd had a photo taken with charles manson or al capone).

    i wont be voting FF (until they've sorted themselves out at least) because they are giving mine/our money to bondholders (see gamblers in the dictionary). i could almost forgive them 'causing' the crash...i dont believe any party would have stopped it though...but deciding to hand over our money to anglo's bondholders?? unforgiveable.

    i just dont know who else to vote for party-wise - they're all crooks - but i wont be voting FF for a while anyway.

    You must have got some awful stick at school, with only one finger left on the hand that Charlie shook.:(


  • #36
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    What would it take for some to stop voting FF?

    They'd have to change their name to Fine Gael.


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  • #37
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    A couple of generations.

    Alot of people vote them becuase their parents/grandparents vote them and they know no different.


  • #38
    desaparecidos
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭desaparecidos


    melekalikimaka wrote: »
    i have yet to see fg or labour display any degree of integrity or to be brutally honest any balls.

    What a load of ****e.


  • #39
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    A big problem is that while they might be runing the country into the ground, they still do a fair bit of work for people in their own constituencies. Jackie Healy-Rae get re-elected how many times because he made sure that his constituency had the best of everything he could get for them. Same for how many other TDs. People see the good they did locally and feel they have to vote the same person in again, or are lead to believe that all the corruption isn't the fault of their local TD, it's all the other baxtards are the problem. People need to start thinking more along the lines that what the TD does for them is their job, but running the country is also part of that, and if they can't do both then they don't deserve to be re-elected.


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