What dictator would you like to Rule Ireland?

indianalien

So lads. We need a new dictator for Ireland. I cant see any of our parties getting us back on our feet. We need some authoritarian regime I think. Look at the Chinese. They are doing great because they have motivated leaders. Who is your favourite dictator and why?

I am a big fan of Vladamir Putin. I like his style. Apparently he can walk on water. I know because I saw it on youtube.

Does anybody think a dictatorship could make things right again. One who crushed the opposition. The trade unions. The bankers. I am pretty sure that we only live in a pseudo democracy anyway with huge levels of corruption.

Who do you think would win a fight? Adolf Hitler or Kim jung il?

Temptamperu

Joseph Stalin, mostly because I hate farmers.

bee_keeper

michael o leary for the righties

vincent browne for the lefties

dilapidating

Admiral General Aladeen.
Sure why not.

kincsem

Gok Wan. We could pretend we are thin (like we pretended we were rich.)

Carstuck

What's wrong with Endas style of promising and not delivering? Isn't it the same thing in a way all cut and giving less to the people

mattjack

Vlad the Impaler.

Sky King

The Benevolent General Krull.

All hail Krull, and his glorious new regime!

Davidius

Éamon de Valera

BOHtox

Michael O'Leary with a cabinet of
Dara O'Briain
The crew of Apres Match
and Mario Rosenstock

kincsem

Bob Geldof. We need to call his bluff.

Fromthetrees

bee_keeper wrote: »

michael o leary for the righties

vincent browne for the lefties

Let them have a duopoly, butter vouchers one year and grants for cars the next, it'll mental but it could be fun, let's find a way for Ming Flanagan to be involved too, and Ian Paisley. Excellent.

bnt

Mussolini. If he could make the trains run on time in Italy, he can surely sort out the buses here.

Varied

Sky King wrote: »

The Benevolent General Krull.

All hail Krull, and his glorious new regime!

Sincerely, little girl.

SafeSurfer

Idi Amin.

Anyone he eats their political opponents, challenges the Queen of England to a fist fight and declares war simultaneously on the US and Russia gets my vote.

I cant imagine Sarkozy every trying to ruffle the hair of the last king of Scotland.

Boombastic

Cúchulainn or Fidel Castro, I'm torn.

Patrick Cleburne

Ireland already has a dictatorship controlling it. It is called the Roman Catholic Church.

tayto lover

Angela Merkel ..... oops, we already have her.

KTRIC

I'd have to say Hitler, sure who wouldn't want to be told what to do by a power hungry German chancellor :rolleyes:

indianalien

Maybe we should call in Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. Anyone ever been to Turkmenistan. I head it is a ****ed up place!!

djk1000

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djk1000

Patrick Cleburne wrote: »

Ireland already has a dictatorship controlling it. It is called the Roman Catholic Church.

Change the record.

Boombastic

KTRIC wrote: »

I'd have to say Hitler, sure who wouldn't want to be told what to do by a power hungry German chancellor :rolleyes:

But, em, economics rabble............Oh noes :eek:

Nodin

djk1000 wrote: »

Change the record.

Or wax cylinder, as the case may be.

wexie

Boombastic wrote: »

Cúchulainn or Fidel Castro, I'm torn.

ah here c'mon now, less of that talk, you're going to upset all the students and crusties who still think of ol' Fidel as a benevolent freedom fighter.

As for dictators, from what I gather they have some spare ones in the Middle East we can get for cheap

Boombastic

wexie wrote: »

ah here c'mon now, less of that talk, you're going to upset all the students and crusties who still think of ol' Fidel as a benevolent freedom fighter.

As for dictators, from what I gather they have some spare ones in the Middle East we can get for cheap

Time for some damage limitation : I thought the thread title said dickhead:D

Duggys Housemate

Patrick Cleburne wrote: »

Ireland already has a dictatorship controlling it. It is called the Roman Catholic Church.

yawn

Duggys Housemate

A dictator like Tito, but less communist.

token101

Lee from Blue, or even Bagpuss. Sure either way it's only going one way anyway!

pavb2

Think this guy is as good as any, couldn't do much worse than what we have. Would also appeal to some of our Northern brethren

St.Spodo

Patrick Cleburne wrote: »

Ireland already has a dictatorship controlling it. It is called the Roman Catholic Church.

Not in any real sense, though.

Sindri

Amin or Bokassa. Some high quality dictatorshipin' there.

Bokassa was insane, as was Amin, but IIRC Bokassa's father, a chief, was killed by the French, yet he for some reason idolized the French. He also declared himself emperor, called himself Napoleon, his wife took the name Josephine and he used to eat people. Kept heads in the freezers of his now crumbling palaces.

Amin, equally as insane was an officer in the British army. The British (who were the masters of Imperialism) looked for men like Amin, Africans, big and tall, not very intelligent to become their officers because then resentment would be felt towards the African officers rather than the British officers by the African rank and file as well as the African civilians. At the suggestion of an officer he was prompted to open a bank account with £5 in it. A few hours later his account was overdrawn and he was wearing an expensive suit and driving a convertible. He converted to Islam to forge an alliance with Gaddafi. He wrote nearly unintelligible letters to the Queen offering to sort out the IRA problem. The movie gets it's title because of the reception he got when he visited Scotland and he was convinced the Scottish wanted him as their monarch.

Dictators are all mad. Ceausescu, who was an ally of the Americans because he was not friendly to Moscow used to have polystyrene fruit and vegetables distributed around Romania to make it appear that the country was fertile and abundant. It was the West (not Adam West) who allowed and even supported many of these dictators initially.

But Stalin was probably the worst of all dictators of the 20th century but there have been many many others such as Timur the Lame, Ivan the terrible who raped and tortured peoples, and the Khans who aren't as well known.

BillyMitchel

Does Genghis Khan count?

JustAThought

I thought we were already ruled by dictators.

Regardless how we vote; the wining point of view is considered " wrong" & we are told to vote again.

Our elected councillers are only given permission to ask a maximum of one question per meeting each ; at each monthly meeting. This excludes the summer; when we're not represented because they're all on holidays .

Concepts like " homeowners tax" which are not wanted by 3 in 4 homes ( a majority) are brought in against the peoples wills & laws are changed to allow this to happen.

Hardly a paradigm of democracy.

UserName 217

Jimmy Carr ... we might only have to pay 1% tax then

HerrScheisse

Pol Pot! At this stage it is probably best to do go the Khmer Rouge way and start afresh at year 1 with a brave new beginning. Anyone wearing hipster skinny jeans, goth make up, dort accents, Facebook accounts, mohair suits, developers, political party membership, and especially those who voted for independants would have to go.

Wereghost

Mao. Owned 900 million slaves at one point. Killed up to 70 million through starvation, overwork and violence, then dumped much of their culture while he denied himself no extravagance. Idolised by the very people he treated like chattels, and completely hoodwinked the West. Made Stalin and Hitler look like big softies. If you've got to have a dictator, you might as well go with the twentieth century's biggest backstard.

Fenian Army

Not really a dictator so much but I'd have Napoleon if I was forced to choose

mikemac1

Hitler & Mussolini

Roads around here a disgrace and Hitler was a great man for building roads

Mussolini will kick CIE and get the trains to run on time

Wereghost

^ Nah, he'll just take credit for other people's work.
http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp.

squod

Vespasian the Roman dictator emperor. Big into the horses, havin' the craic and building stuff.

Fancy a nudder go at the property boom? Want something to do on the weekends? Vote Vespasian no.1

previous user

Sadam

ArtSmart

toughy.

i like a bit of dominatrix but, well, i kinda like the illusion of 'freedom' too.


what kinda whip we talkin?

starlit

Russel Brand or Gay Byrne make good rulers otherwise hmmm I don't think i'd want a dictator to rule Ireland. No communism here please we're Irish!
Though Clinton or Obama be my choice or else Mary Harney or Enda. I am happy enough that he is our taoiseach.

Suryavarman

JustAThought wrote: »

I thought we were already ruled by dictators.

Regardless how we vote; the wining point of view is considered " wrong" & we are told to vote again.

Our elected councillers are only given permission to ask a maximum of one question per meeting each ; at each monthly meeting. This excludes the summer; when we're not represented because they're all on holidays .

Concepts like " homeowners tax" which are not wanted by 3 in 4 homes ( a majority) are brought in against the peoples wills & laws are changed to allow this to happen.

Hardly a paradigm of democracy.

Yawn.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Nelson Mandela.

squod

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Nelson Mandela.

He'd hate the weather.

wendell borton

Girolamo Savonarola

kryogen

Me obviously, and I promise you all a better life (for those who please me) a short life for those who do not.

Dangerous Man

Charlie Chaplin

tdv123

Nicolae Ceausescu