General Election 2011

Tackleberrywho

Although Sargent is holding on by a thread!

I hope that thread breaks soon

endasmail

thats what they get for messing with culchies

Cavehill Red

IN January they wanted to introduce an economic treason bill. Let's give them that wish and then prosecute them under it.

clivej

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Although Sargent is holding on by a thread!

I hope that thread breaks soon

:rolleyes: That's the BEST post you ever made here.

Sanity returns.;)

johngalway

Threads merged.

They don't deserve to hold even one seat.

Tackleberrywho

johngalway wrote: »

Threads merged.

They don't deserve to hold even one seat.

Ah Johnny

Can we not have a thread for the Hunters of Ireland separate to the General election thread??

johngalway

Sparks wrote: »

We're going to start a sticky thread here to try to keep things a bit tidy.

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Can we not have a thread for the Hunters of Ireland separate to the General election thread??

And then we'd have a Labour thread, a Fine Gael thread, a Fianna "blink and you miss them" Fail thread.... and.... and.... and....

bunny shooter

Great day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Greens have been buried :eek:

Sparks

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Can we not have a thread for the Hunters of Ireland separate to the General election thread??

Is an entire forum not enough for ye?

Tackleberrywho

Sparks wrote: »

Is an entire forum not enough for ye?

No:p

Nobody seems to have been as Anti Green Party as I.
They are all gone now!
!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsDpznl8eIs

Get on that Highway Greens

johngalway

I said this already in the Farming forum, and I figure people here are smart enough to know it too but it's worth mentioning anyway. Just because there may/will (delete as appropriate) be no Green national representation in this country doesn't mean they can't still do harm.

They will still be writing, talking, lobbying (European and World, as well as National bodies). "Movements" can be insidious. While I and many, many other people, probably the majority of people in the country agree with sensible ideas. It's the ridiculous policies, and the harmful way in which sensible policies were introduced that I disagree with. I guess, in short, "They haven't gone away you know".

Grizzly 45

Would have thought this more in tune on how FF and Greens would feel this morning.:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9P_BM58A18

to use the gardening allegory, when you have rooted out a patch of green weeds of the nastier kind like briars,it is always prudent to come back and give it a spray of weed killer once in awhile to make sure they dont return,and to get any you missed in the first season.;)

However one great advantage is now the antis have lost ANY voice they have in the Dail,unless they get an independant or somone in Labour,this will have set them back a good six plus years.Id predict that possibly now we might seem them get more militant and start going to more direct action,as they have to really rebuild their political appratus,and especially if FG honours their promise on the stag hunting ban.
We live in intresting times.

johngalway

I would be wary and skeptical regarding the newer rash of left leaning TD's elected, PBP, ULA, I can't believe it's not butter... etc.

Grizzly 45

Watch out for PBP,Fis Nua,Socialists those three already have hung up their colours on the mast in their manifestoes on fieldsports.

Mauser 308

Guys the bit I find amazing is that as the counts came through, the Greens seemed to be shocked at how bad they were doing
Their policies were a burden and worry to all hunting groups and anything they think they did for the inviroment only added cost to the end user. Has the carbon tax done anything for anyone or helped the enviroment?? No its put more cost on normal people. I am delighted for them and I hope they will will think twice when pushing their own self intrests and the interests of a small few through without consulting the larger public.

Gungnir

The only thing green about the Green Party was the colour of their political collars.

Rosahane

On the Politics forum on Boards and on Politics.ie there were a number of threads about the FG promise to revoke the hunting plan, similar threads about the FG plan to get rid of compulsary Irish.

Both sets promised dire retribution for FG at the ballot box for these proposals, we were informed whole communities that had intended to vote FG had changed their minds :eek:

Yeah right :rolleyes:

The best bit was on politics.ie where there was a poll - 61 against Stag Hunting. :P

Sparks

Just to ungild the lily, here's what we're paying to the TDs we just voted out - €7,065,176.

johngalway

Sparks wrote: »

Just to ungild the lily, here's what we're paying to the TDs we just voted out - €7,065,176.

Hmm, get rid of them for €7m, keep them for €Xbn. I think we done OK

Grizzly 45

Plus another 4 million give or take for the other lot who jumped into the lifeboatsbefore the SS Fianna FAIL went down finally by the head.

Say 12 million,and thats per annum too for these pensions which are index linked of course.Within ten years thats proably 120 plus million.Wont be too long and we have chalked up a half billion on pensions to useless EX politicans.Not to mind whatever they will make as "consultants" ,chairmen on companies,etc ,etc.As I doubt they will all be taking up gardening or sitting on their porches in the rocking chair.:rolleyes:

Should be made take a choice.Either live off the pensions ,golden handshakes etc,or your new profession as a consultant etc.NOT both!
No one in this country is worth over 250k PA in political or busisness life,and these ludicrious sums being paid out for being a total waster while in public office is the ultimate in obceneity and gombeenism.

Tackleberrywho

http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0302/media-2917006.html

The future is in Safe Hands!

dCorbus

There's a better clip of this on TV3:

http://www.tv3.ie/news.php?video=33134&locID=1.2

homerhop

guess the eu court ruling on car insurance wasnt a bad idea after all!!!!

johngalway

Stone her!

(It's not like she drove up the wrong way of a dual carriageway pissed out of her mind ).

Them wimmin drivers... :rolleyes:

Sikamick

Sparks wrote: »

Just to ungild the lily, here's what we're paying to the TDs we just voted out - €7,065,176.

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It's only in Ireland that the likes of this can happen, rewarding people for making a complete Boll** of things.

Sikamick

Sparks

Interesting points in the FG/Lab programme for government:

We will explore the possibility of a new agreement on visitor visas with the UK,
offering tourists the opportunity to visit the UK and Ireland with one visa, at a
reasonable cost to tap into the tourism market for significant events such as the
forthcoming London 2012 Olympics.

We will target available resources at developing and co-ordinating niche tourism
products and activity packages that are attractive to international visitors focusing on
food, sports, culture, ecotourism, activity breaks, water-based recreation and festivals.
• Event tourism will be prioritised to continue to bring major fairs and events to Ireland
such as the Volvo Ocean Race or Solheim Cup.

If those don't apply to shooting matchs, what would? It could be a reason to make the europass the only document anyone needs to come to the ROI to shoot - good news for our fellow shooters up North and abroad...

We will introduce a role for the Ceann Comhairle in deciding whether a Minister has failed to
provide reasonable information in response to a question.
We propose a radical extension of the parliamentary question system, so that it shall be a statutory
duty on any body established by or under statute, or with a majority ownership or funding by the
State, to submit to the same parliamentary questions regime as applies to Government
departments. This will involve a liability to provide answers to written questions within a
specified number of Dáil sitting days. (We will however recognise the special position of bodies
with a commercial mandate operating at arm’s length from Government.)

Given the contents of the Parlimentary Questions thread on here, this seems like it could make things enormously more open in the future.

We will legislate to restore the Freedom of Information Act to what it was before it was underined
by the outgoing Government, and we will extend its remit to other public bodies including the
administrative side of the Garda Síochána, subject to security exceptions.
We will extend Freedom of Information, and the Ombudsman Act, to ensure that all statutory
bodies, and all bodies significantly funded from the public purse, are covered.

Similarly, this could make it a lot easier to spot trends in licencing and so forth. The more information publicly available, the better.

We will give committees the power to introduce legislation, while a new 10 Minute
Rule will allow backbench TDs to introduce their own Bills.

This could have enormous impact on the Firearms Act, and make it far easier to lobby for changes to that Act...

We will establish a petition system to the Dáil, similar to that operating in the European
Parliament, to be managed by a specific Dáil committee that will investigate and report on
petitions which raise issues warranting attention.

There are 200,000 of us - if a simple petition could raise our issues at that level, it would be a game-changer.

Responsibility for policy-making will revert to the Department, while agencies will be
accountable for implementing policy, assessing outcomes and value for money.
All State funding will be subject to the beneficiaries signing up to a dispute resolution service, a
code of governance and a new mandatory code of conduct regarding child protection in sport.
A number of positions on the Sports Council’s governing Board will be made directly electable.
The National Sports Facilities Strategy will become the blueprint for the future development of all
sports facilities in the country and will inform any future investment on sports infrastructure.
In future sports funding should prioritise projects which further greater participation in sport on a
local and national level.

This changes the landscape somewhat dramatically on the sport side of things. How well it will work... is at best debatable