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Dublin West General Election 2011 [Mod note post #218]
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TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »^Fess up buddy. Are you McGuinness himself or do you just work for him
(1) Am I McGuinness himself?
No I haven't got his bottle.
(2) Do I work for him?
No but I can a keen follower of him and the local area generally. He is genuinely a break from the past. He is a good all round candidate..0 -
TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »^Fess up buddy. Are you McGuinness himself or do you just work for him
We would expect anyone with connections (including family/personal friend/canvasser) to any candidate to declare this in the interests of full disclosure. Should we discover that you have failed to do so you can expect a ban from this forum.0 -
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We would expect anyone with connections (including family/personal friend/canvasser) to any candidate to declare this in the interests of full disclosure. Should we discover that you have failed to do so you can expect a ban from this forum.
I'm a personal friend of two candidates, where does that leave me
By the way, i posted an excerp from the Irish times.
You'll find my previous posts on this thread have been balanced at all time including the time I gave a run down during the week on three candidates.0 -
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chucknorris wrote: »I'm a personal friend of two candidates, where does that leave me
By the way, i posted an excerp from the Irish times.
You'll find my previous posts on this thread have been balanced at all time including the time I gave a run down during the week on three candidates.
Which two? So we know where you are coming from. Just personal friend or active supporter/canvasser/party member etc.?0 -
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chucknorris wrote: »I'm a personal friend of two candidates, where does that leave me
By the way, i posted an excerp from the Irish times.
You'll find my previous posts on this thread have been balanced at all time including the time I gave a run down during the week on three candidates.
There's no problem with you being a personal friend with any or all of the candidates, but in the interests of fairness you should declare which candidates you're friends with. At least then people can decide whether or not they want to take your opinions on them or their opponents at face value. Equally though, people should remember that being friends with a candidate does not necessarily mean that you hold the same political views as them and that you could quite easily be a supporter of an opposing party.
As for your posts being balanced, you can be sure that there are plenty of people around here who would have called you out on that if they weren't, so I don't think you need to worry too much on that score.0 -
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As for your posts being balanced, you can be sure that there are plenty of people around here who would have called you out on that if they weren't, so I don't think you need to worry too much on that score.
All of what you say is correct.
Page 12 and 13 should be enough for anyone.
And let me clarify, Nulty and Donnelly who I have posted about previously in a brief profile were not in the Irish Times article. 0 -
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chucknorris wrote: »I honestly do not know. A wild guess.
I am as it goes. It must've been my amazing use of logic that gave me away 0 -
TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »I am as it goes. It must've been my amazing use of logic that gave me away
Sugertown?? You were either Gay or a girl.
Your use of language gives it away. Maybe the logic is there too.
Keep it balanced and thanks for allowing the lurkers come from the shadows to do anything but discuss my earlier post. 0 -
chucknorris wrote: »Sugertown?? You were either Gay or a girl.
It's a song by Nancy Sinatra. I was probably listening to it when I was filling in my details. Which I suppose still most likely would make me a girl or gay
Anyway, to get back on topic, I have to say I'm still completely undecided and not ruling out not voting at all at this point.
I think I've ruled FG out completely though. Thanks mainly to their 5 point plan leaflet that arrived today.0 -
TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »It's a song by Nancy Sinatra. I was probably listening to it when I was filling in my details. Which I suppose still most likely would make me a girl or gay
Anyway, to get back on topic, I have to say I'm still completely undecided and not ruling out not voting at all at this point.
I think I've ruled FG out completely though. Thanks mainly to their 5 point plan leaflet that arrived today.
Well I can tell you LV & JB will not be getting a vote. They are so ultra confident of election (rightly so) that they never do or never have canvassed in recent times in Ladyswell, Corduff, Mulhuddart, etc.
They have thrown those areas to their running mates, BL included.
Seems to be a two tier Dublin west in my opinion. I accept this is due to voter turnout in more affluent areas.
Will make up my mind in the week leading up to the 25th.
(please think of the children) 0 -
chucknorris wrote: »Well I can tell you LV & JB will not be getting a vote. They are so ultra confident of election (rightly so) that they never do or never have canvassed in recent times in Ladyswell, Corduff, Mulhuddart, etc.
They have thrown those areas to their running mates, BL included.
Seems to be a two tier Dublin west in my opinion. I accept this is due to voter turnout in more affluent areas.
Will make up my mind in the week leading up to the 25th.
(please think of the children)
That's what bothers me most. It seems that barring some major miracle, the next government will be some form of FG and Labor. So it kind of seems like voting for anyone else is a waste of a vote in terms of the wider picture. So then I think who would I want representing my area in the Dail, but, if you don't like the FG or Labor candidates what do you do? Vote for someone you know has no chance of getting in? Might as well just not bother voting.
I might just write number 2 in all the boxes to piss them off. That'll teach them. 0 -
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Good morning everyone. Two good points above.TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »what do you do? Vote for someone you know has no chance of getting in? Might as well just not bother voting.
I might just write number 2 in all the boxes to piss them off. That'll teach them.
Yes that is exactly what you should do. That's why we have the single transferable vote. It allows people to vote number 1 for a desired candidate regardless of their chances. If that person ceases to make it and is eliminated, your number 2 will get that transfer and that person may well be a more likely Dail member after the election. With that in mind you should absolutely vote as your vote will count regardless of your order of preference.How on earth can anyone break from the past. Especially a FF candidate?
Maybe hes got one of those Men In Black mind erasers. He must have, I've never heard of him.
A very good question. In fact, in the local elections of 09 there was a number of candidates that no one ever heard of. The African candidates were unknown and some never seen again. Nulty and McGuinness were new to the electoral scene in 09 but were active members in their own youth parties. The reason you never heard of him (or them?) Is because they are young and new.
There is a second reason you may not have known him (or them?) is due to the fact that the 09 local elections are not open to the same electorate as will be in this general election. Both of the younger and newer candidates contested the Mulhuddart ward area and that did not cover Castleknock. I'm using Castleknock as a rough example of large area's of Dublin west that will only get to see their names and face's for the first time.
As for the men in black erasers analogy; do remember when this sorry mess of a country started to go off the rails according to all respected economists, all will agree it started in 2003. The property crash was actually there in 2003 but it was hidden by reckless credit and everything came down like a house of cards with the credit bubble burst in 2008 (but the banks in turmoil in 2007). So in 2003, the man you never heard of was sixteen years of age - 20 years of age by the time everything went bang.
My point is - Why would you, he or anyone for that matter associate ones self with the past if you were not in any way responsible for it or involved in it?0 -
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