Galway West General Election

PomBear

c_man wrote: »

10/1 on PP.

Some of the candidates are on the Last Word now.

could be worth a flutter, easily has much chance than 10/1

whatstherush

snubbleste wrote: »

This independent survey reports 6 in the city http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/21434
forward it to Cllr. B. Walsh

Why would you want to forward it on to him, sure it was himself and his buddy Burke, that probably created them in the first place:D

PomBear

Mystery Solved why Niall Broccoli is doing so well in our poll

Sponge Bob

I noticed the Shinners piled in over the weekend of the 4th / 5th and the Greens and Connollyites then piled in over the next few days. I think that Nolan and Naughton on either side is genuine 'data' .

Now they hit around 40 each it should settle down

PomBear

Sponge Bob wrote: »

I noticed the Shinners piled in over the weekend of the 4th / 5th and the Greens and Connollyites then piled in over the next few days. I think that Nolan and Naughton on either side is genuine 'data' .

Now they hit around 40 each it should settle down

Shinners have been consistent, so has Connolly.

PomBear

Some people being naughty with the poll here

simonj

Re. Trevor Clougherty, and Galway west, on a local issue, he was of real help to me in keeping the bus service going into the Carna area. With Bus Eireann cutbacks they wanted to cut the route - which is the only form of public transport in the area.
It serves Carna, Rosmuc, Screeb etc, and is a vital service for outpatients and students heading for UCG.
I really thought this was more a Green issue, but that was not the case here.

The other person who did a lot of work in the area was Se. Eames, she was very important in fighting for the inclusion of local communities in the water scheme that linked Carna to Roundstone, at first the plan by-passed several hundred families.
When O Cuiv was approached, they were told to set up a group scheme, but Eames really helped the local community fight to get access to clean running water - which is a right after all.

If I was not disenfranchised by the current postal vote system, they would be my 1 & 2 preferences, Im not sure who would be first, depends on what the polls look like coming up to the day.

Scottie Dundee

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Dan_Solo

simonj wrote: »

When O Cuiv was approached, they were told to set up a group scheme, but Eames really helped the local community fight to get access to clean running water - which is a right after all.

You have the right to access water alright, but nobody said if you build a house up the side of a mountain or in the middle of nowhere that they have to deliver it to you. And loss making rural bus routes? How come us townies have to subsidise them?
If you want to live in the sticks then you should be prepared to pay a premium for it.

johngalway

Dan_Solo wrote: »

If you want to live in the sticks then you should be prepared to pay a premium for it.

We do, it's called CARBON TAX :mad:

Dan_Solo

johngalway wrote: »

We do, it's called CARBON TAX :mad:

Which if you have loss making bus routes subsidised by the state, WE are paying for...

steelcityblues

Eamon O'Cuiv wasn't elected on this site's poll - doubt its gonna happen on the day itself.

PomBear

Dan_Solo wrote: »

Which if you have loss making bus routes subsidised by the state, WE are paying for...

don't worry johngalway is a FGer who support selling off state services

johngalway

PomBear wrote: »

don't worry johngalway is a FGer who support selling off state services

I'm not a member of any political party. But, I will be voting FG.

You may also be interested in the fact I pay for my own petrol, including CARBON TAX, pay my own insurance, and pay car tax as well as having it NCT'd every two years.

Is that all alright with you PomBear?

johngalway

Dan_Solo wrote: »

Which if you have loss making bus routes subsidised by the state, WE are paying for...

Personally Dan, as a non bus using car owner, I couldn't give a toss if one of them never trundled through this particular 'berg.

So called "public transport" can't bring me to work, nor a lot of other places I have reason to go to.

The last private bus service was run by a local man, and bought out by CityLink.

steelcityblues wrote: »

Eamon O'Cuiv wasn't elected on this site's poll - doubt its gonna happen on the day itself.

Ah, I can hope :pac:

gimmebroadband

johngalway wrote: »

I'm not a member of any political party. But, I will be voting FG.

You may also be interested in the fact I pay for my own petrol, including CARBON TAX, pay my own insurance, and pay car tax as well as having it NCT'd every two years.

Is that all alright with you PomBear?

Voting FG too, always have!

gimmebroadband

PomBear wrote: »

don't worry johngalway is a FGer who support selling off state services

You mean state services that are over-staffed!!!

galwayboss

I can see Tom Welby polling suprising well on election day he'll have a big Oughterard Rosscahill and Moycullen vote and will pick up a lot of votes in Gealtacht areas. think he's got a very generous price in pp and mullhollands

PomBear

gimmebroadband wrote: »

You mean state services that are over-staffed!!!

so sell them off to the highest bidder so they can rip people off and hold our vital services at ransom and sell them to the highest bidder?

I'm sure with this attitude, FG would invest in transport in rural services :rolleyes:
Also while they're at it, they might give us free irish classes to combat making it optional in the LC and copper fastening it's extinction :rolleyes:


But hey, don't let reason get in the way.....

PomBear

galwayboss wrote: »

I can see Tom Welby polling suprising well on election day he'll have a big Oughterard Rosscahill and Moycullen vote and will pick up a lot of votes in Gealtacht areas. think he's got a very generous price in pp and mullhollands

doubt it, from my experiences people can't stand ex PDs in recent years

Dan_Solo

johngalway wrote: »

I'm not a member of any political party. But, I will be voting FG.

You may also be interested in the fact I pay for my own petrol, including CARBON TAX, pay my own insurance, and pay car tax as well as having it NCT'd every two years.

Is that all alright with you PomBear?

FG? If you want a direct continuation of FF policies it's hardly fair to vote against them after all the good work they've done.
You pay your taxes? Amazing. That makes you very special. I'll have a medal minted for you.

johngalway

Dan_Solo wrote: »

You pay your taxes? Amazing. That makes you very special. I'll have a medal minted for you.

Was that directed at you? :rolleyes:

Dan_Solo

johngalway wrote: »

Was that directed at you? :rolleyes:

Oh right, because I make mincemeat of your logic it doesn't count because you weren't addressing me?
Well boo hoo! If you want a private conversation, then there a thing called "PM".:p

johngalway

Dan_Solo wrote: »

Oh right, because I make mincemeat of your logic it doesn't count because you weren't addressing me?
Well boo hoo! If you want a private conversation, then there a thing called "PM".:p

You didn't make mincemeat of anything, in fact the point of that post seems to have completely escaped you.

ei.sdraob

PomBear wrote: »

and hold our vital services at ransom .

You mean like the public sector and their unions have done last year :rolleyes:

PomBear

ei.sdraob wrote: »

You mean like the public sector and their unions have done last year :rolleyes:

i'd prefer our public services be held by unions who have their interest in workers and workers have their says rather than some private investor who only cares about taking a profit.

c_man

PomBear wrote: »

doubt it, from my experiences people can't stand ex PDs in recent years

There was quite a number of ex-PDs returned in the 2009 local elections in Galway.

PomBear

c_man wrote: »

There was quite a number of ex-PDs returned in the 2009 local elections in Galway.

Who else bar Welby?

Lockstep

McDonnell and O'Flaherty in the East Ward, Lyons in the West ward.

ei.sdraob

PomBear wrote: »

i'd prefer our public services be held by unions who have their interest in workers and workers have their says rather than some private investor who only cares about taking a profit.

Its interesting how the only productive sector at this time that is doing well is the export sector

those evil private companies working their workers to death :rolleyes: we have a few sweat shops here in galway sure too like hp, b. scientific and medtronic :rolleyes::rolleyes:

PomBear

ei.sdraob wrote: »

Its interesting how the only productive sector at this time that is doing well is the export sector

those evil private companies working their workers to death :rolleyes: we have a few sweat shops here in galway sure too like hp, b. scientific and medtronic :rolleyes::rolleyes:

yet if they wanted to leave tomorrow (some of which are considering leaving), they could and mass redundancy and cripples Galway's economy, this doesn't happen when they are nationalised.

ei.sdraob

PomBear wrote: »

yet if they wanted to leave tomorrow (some of which are considering leaving), they could and mass redundancy and cripples Galway's economy, this doesn't happen when they are nationalised.

Excellent the solution to all of Ireland's problem is .. having everyone working for the state :rolleyes: yeh that worked out great for USSR :rolleyes:

Stick it in the Pan

ei.sdraob wrote: »

Excellent the solution to all of Ireland's problem is .. having everyone working for the state :rolleyes: yeh that worked out great for USSR :rolleyes:

It worked out pretty well actually. They went from one of the poorest and most backward countries in the world to a super power that put the first person in space.

Dan_Solo

ei.sdraob wrote: »

Excellent the solution to all of Ireland's problem is .. having everyone working for the state :rolleyes: yeh that worked out great for USSR :rolleyes:

Well I'll take that over Somalia, which is a shining example of a country with no public service that you so desperately crave.

Dan_Solo

ei.sdraob wrote: »

Its interesting how the only productive sector at this time that is doing well is the export sector

those evil private companies working their workers to death :rolleyes: we have a few sweat shops here in galway sure too like hp, b. scientific and medtronic :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Or those wonderful private banks who went £100 billion in debt and then used their political connections to drive Ireland to economic ruin?
Go team private sector!

Unrealistic

Stick it in the Pan wrote: »

It worked out pretty well actually. They went from one of the poorest and most backward countries in the world to a super power that put the first person in space.

Putting the first man into space is wonderful but what does it say about your system if this coincides with a large part of your population not even having indoor plumbing. "Upper Volta with nukes" was an accurate description.

ei.sdraob

I didnt know there are so many closet communists in Galway, oh well :rolleyes:

PomBear

ei.sdraob wrote: »

I didnt know there are so many closet communists in Galway, oh well :rolleyes:

no just people with rational thought!

gimmebroadband

PomBear wrote: »

no just people with rational thought!

Probably the same rational people that kept the last Government in power for the past 12 years!

PomBear

gimmebroadband wrote: »

Probably the same rational people that kept the last Government in power for the past 12 years!

I never voted for any party that's been in Government in the last 12 years

ei.sdraob

PomBear wrote: »

no just people with rational thought!

we had decades "of rational" welfare to unions, bankers, spongers and developers

how ****ed does the country have to get before some people admit leftie populist policies have failed us?

PomBear

ei.sdraob wrote: »

we had decades "of rational" welfare to unions, bankers, spongers and developers

how ****ed does the country have to get before some people admit leftie populist policies have failed us?

there hasn't been a "leftie" in majority party in the Government since the early 1920s

ei.sdraob

PomBear wrote: »

there hasn't been a "leftie" in majority party in the Government since the early 1920s

Fianna Fail despite being called "right center wing" are very socialist, their spending record speaks for itself :rolleyes:

Don't forget Labour where out-promising Fianna Fail at each and every election.

PomBear

ei.sdraob wrote: »

Fianna Fail despite being called "right center wing" are very socialist, their spending record speaks for itself :rolleyes:

Don't forget Labour where out-promising Fianna Fail at each and every election.

lol, FF socialists :pac:

Spending and investing in Health, Education and Social Welfare is something FG would be against so?

ei.sdraob

PomBear wrote: »

lol, FF socialists :pac:

yes extremely so, Bertie even called himself one! did they or did they not increase welfare and public service spend by heaps?

PomBear wrote: »

sting in Health, Education and Social Welfare is something FG would be against so?

I dont speak for FG :rolleyes:

Spending money faster than the economy is growing was crazy, spending more money we dont have (and have to borrow at high interest) now while the economy is shrinking is even crazier.

Anyways trying to explain basic economics to a communist is futile.

PomBear

ei.sdraob wrote: »

yes extremely so, Bertie even called himself one! did they or did they not increase welfare and public service spend by heaps?

Lol, you believed him

ei.sdraob wrote: »

I dont speak for FG :rolleyes:

Spending money faster than the economy is growing was crazy, spending more money we dont have (and have to borrow at high interest) now while the economy is shrinking is even crazier.

Anyways trying to explain basic economics to a communist is futile.

Afraid i'm not a communist, sorry to disappoint!

High spending in Health, Social Welfare and Education did not cause this recession, far from it

kraggy

Michael D. Higgins:

Has spoken in 126 debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
Has received answers to 270 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.


Padraic McCormack:

Has spoken in 94 debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
Has received answers to 91 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.


Eamon O Cuiv:

Has spoken in 80 debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.


Frank Fahey:

Has spoken in 19 debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
Has received answers to 11 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.


Noel Grealish:

Has spoken in 3 debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
Has received answers to 12 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.


Grealish only there for the paycheck?

While I don't think that the above are the only criteria for deciding whether or not to vote for someone, a TD who only speaks 3 times in a whole year, in the house they've been elected to, is not doing his/her job. Personally, it sickens me. If Grealish, or indeed Fahey, get elected then we have a serious problem in this country, and it's not with the politicians. It's with the general public.

What the above does confirm thought, is that whether or not you agree with his policies, Michael D. has to be one of the most honest, hard-working politicians Galway West has had.

Source for the above kildarestreet.com

Dan_Solo

ei.sdraob wrote: »

I didnt know there are so many closet communists in Galway, oh well :rolleyes:

That's funny, I would've thought you free market types would be dead set against the government interfering in a private commercial matter like a banks debt.
Oh, I get it, taxing for public services is "communism" but propping up bankrupt private companies with state money is "capitalism"...:rolleyes:

Dan_Solo

ei.sdraob wrote: »

we had decades "of rational" welfare to unions, bankers, spongers and developers

how ****ed does the country have to get before some people admit leftie populist policies have failed us?

Jaysus, if FF are "lefties" then who on earth is there for you to vote for on the right?

Dan_Solo

kraggy wrote: »

Michael D. Higgins:

Has spoken in 126 debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
Has received answers to 270 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.

What the above does confirm thought, is that whether or not you agree with his policies, Michael D. has to be one of the most honest, hard-working politicians Galway West has had.

Not to poo poo too much, but your stats don't say a thing about Higgins' "honesty". (Nothing against Michael D., I'd probably agree with you there though I find him woefully wishy washy.)