Have you faith in the FG/Labour government?

EURATS

Considering what you have seen in the media recently, are you confident and happy with the performance of our elected representatives and do you feel they have the ability to get the best deal from Europe for the Irish people?

Fromthetrees

I have more fucking faith in my 2 year old not pissing the bed.

flutterflye

I didn't think anyone actually had faith in them.
We just have no better alternative.

omgitsthelazor

No, nothing to do with whats in the media recently mind.

hairyprincess

Add a poll

Mr.Biscuits

Nope, Kenny is too much of cross between Frank Spencer and Alan Partridge for me to put any faith in anything he does.

Sprouts

We're all DOOOOMED!!!!

Tesco Massacre

I wouldn't be surprised if they were all lizards. Also, an anagram of FG/Labour is 'bag flour'.


...I'm sh*t at political debate.

KKkitty

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if they were all lizards. Also, an anagram of FG/Labour is 'bag flour'.


...I'm sh*t at political debate.

Rub a golf is another anagram.

patwicklow

Id rather if Dublin zoo would send a few monkeys to sort it. id have more faith then!

joshrogan

I don't have faith in any political party in this country.

Pushtrak

I have faith they'll fight their corner. Whether this in any way will help us is probably closer to the negatory.

NIMAN

Not a lot but more than I'd have with FF or SF/lefties in charge

sink

Faith is not a word I would use, I would say they're dealing with the situation to the best of their ability. I don't think there is a person on this earth that could solve our problems without a lot of pain.

Tesco Massacre

We'd all be a lot better off if we all lived on an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

EURATS

Poll up, poll up for kenny's mystery tour. Step right this way

EURATS

If you can't fight your corner on a TV3 debate...forget about it

Where To

Could be doing better, could be doing a hell of a lot worse.

There hands are pretty much tied though, and there is no realistic alternative at present.

EURATS

Where To wrote: »

Could be doing better, could be doing a hell of a lot worse.

There hands are pretty much tied though, and there is no realistic alternative at present.

A hell of a lot worse? Nuclear war?

K-9

SF would batter those Germans.

Where To

EURATS wrote: »

Where To wrote: »

Could be doing better, could be doing a hell of a lot worse.

There hands are pretty much tied though, and there is no realistic alternative at present.

A hell of a lot worse? Nuclear war?

Worse than that, Sinn Fein

AskMyChocolate

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if they were all lizards. Also, an anagram of FG/Labour is 'bag flour'.


...I'm sh*t at political debate.

KKkitty wrote: »

Rub a golf is another anagram.

"Bunch of useless overpaid cunts" is an un-anagram.

sparksfly

sink wrote: »

Faith is not a word I would use, I would say they're dealing with the situation to the best of their ability. I don't think there is a person on this earth that could solve our problems without a lot of pain.

"Dealing with the situation to the best of their ability". Are you serious?
They are paying themselves and their cronies the highest salaries in Europe + up to 3 pensions, unvouched expenses and God knows what else, all on borrowed money while screwing the rest of us to extinction. You are obviously happy with that.
Who exactly is feeling the pain?

EURATS

Where To wrote: »

EURATS wrote: »

Where To wrote: »

Could be doing better, could be doing a hell of a lot worse.

There hands are pretty much tied though, and there is no realistic alternative at present.

A hell of a lot worse? Nuclear war?

Worse than that, Sinn Fein

Are u in a position to give standing to your statement?

krudler

lesser of two evils who were voted in but are basically the same shower of feckless gobsh1tes that was there before. paid a lot for doing very little, no real changes, screwing the country even more.

smash

sink wrote: »

Faith is not a word I would use, I would say they're dealing with the situation to the best of their ability.

Then they're obviously mentally challenged!

mikeym

I Lost all faith in the government.

omgitsthelazor

EURATS wrote: »

If you can't fight your corner on a TV3 debate...forget about it

Oh wow people actually care about this? Ursula and her spin team will be so proud.

EURATS

omgitsthelazor wrote: »

EURATS wrote: »

If you can't fight your corner on a TV3 debate...forget about it

Oh wow people actually care about this? Ursula and her spin team will be so proud.

Wow they do. Wow they don't.

EURATS

Go on enda kenny ya good thing

EURATS

Enda kennys speech...no surprise. Drivel and drone as was to be expected.

Biggins

Not one bit of faith in the shower of liars and u-turn artists.

EURATS

ventriloquist's dummy with a shïte speech?

Pushtrak

Option 3: Atari Jaguar.

christmas2012

Personally,i dont have any faith in any political party in ireland,they are all overpaid,they have us taking the cuts,but dont do it themselves,there all double speakers when on TV nobody really knows what they are on about until its too late,think the lisbon treaty..

Although with that said i am voting yes to this referendum,not because FG are telling us to,but because i have NO FAITH in irelands politicians i would rather it be in the hands of the EU,i know i know,but at least we wont have to borrow at more expensive interest rates.Thats one good thing i can think of,i just dont think the people that overpay themselves and got us into this recession really care enough,and i would rather it not in their hands..

Biggins

EURATS wrote: »

ventriloquist's dummy with a shïte speech?

One with a yellow streak running down its back.

Myrddin

No, not in the slightest

EURATS

Biggins wrote: »

EURATS wrote: »

ventriloquist's dummy with a shïte speech?

One with a yellow streak running down its back.

Looked entirely yellow to me. Aside from the suit

Myrddin

Pushtrak wrote: »

Option 3: Atari Jaguar.

Same as the yes vote tbh

pragmatic1

More faith in them than the last shower thats for sure.

Ronin247

EURATS wrote: »

ventriloquist's dummy with a shïte speech?

You can drop the ventriloquist's out of that.....

eth0

No. They are a right shower. Feic em!

Battered Mars Bar

No, Sinn Fein all the way boss

onemorechance

flutterflye wrote: »

I didn't think anyone actually had faith in them.
We just have no better alternative.

A better alternative would be Gerry Adams going to the EU negotiations instead of Enda 'Pinky' Kenny and Michael 'The Brain' Noonan.

Forest Demon

No faith in FF, FG or Labour. I have even less faith in our public institutions or public sector management to drive change internally.

Ireland is ruled by a controlling minority regardless of who is in government. It does not matter who you vote for as the incompetent institutions do not change. This seems to be acceptable to most people as far as I can see.

Will we see more cases of the HSE failing its citizens and getting sued this week? Maybe RTE? FAS? Will we read about another useless fat cat retiring on a pension and getting re-hired? Another adviser getting paid over the odds? Bankers with quarter of a million redundancy packages that should be in prison? Another tax on the average worker in Ireland?

I am losing faith in my fellow Irish citizen as they seem to want the same **** to continue. They nearly voted for Gallagher except for an irrelevant debate :rolleyes:. They will more then likely vote yes to continue the same path and a lot of them will be back on the FF train in a couple of elections.

Its not Left, right, socialism or capitalism that is the problem in Ireland. Its waste, incompetence and accountability that is the issue and that will only change with a real crisis.

EURATS

Lucinda creighton made interesting viewing on Vincent brown last night. Interesting with regard to her party spiel. She was more convincing than her leader, but that says nothing, nothing at all.
The NO side came across as weak and disappointing. A let down for the NO side.

Zebra3

FG and Lab were due to hand over €2.25bn of our money to some rich b*****ds who gambled on a privately owned bank.

Says it all about the interests of whom they are looking out for.

grindle

Are the people voting yes (an unbelievable 21.99%, writing this), actually voting yes to the question, or voting yes to "There are no better alternatives"?
No better alternative =/= having faith.

Nothingbetter2d

i think the tv show "Yes Minister" pretty much sums out how politics are run in most of the eu

SafeSurfer

I cannot have confidence in the ability of Enda Kenny to debate Ireland's position with his European peers when he is unwilling and unable to debate the merits of the Fiscal Treaty with his political peers here in Ireland.

My cynicism of Irish politics in general has increased due to the deafening silence from government quarters on where the ongoing cuts and tax rises to meet the terms of the Stability Treaty will come from.

One thing I am sure of is that if the treaty is passed, Simon Covney, as director of elections and a well regarded minister for agriculture will be in a much strengthened position to contest the leadership of Fine Gael when it arises.

Cookie_Monster

misleading title...
Have you faith in the FG/Labour government?
no, not at all

but then you bring Europe into it and restrict it
I have no faith in them doing anything except grabbing as much cash for themselves as they can manage.