Canvasing GE16

dslamjack

James Reilly was out and about in Lusk canvassing yesterday morning,your wan told me he'd knock himself,so I went to the trouble of psyching my self up ready for the knock,n the bugger skipped our house altogether,he musta remembered the last time,his canvassers were very nice though,still no sign of FF,SF or anybody else,it's no wonder I call Fingal the forgotten county.

jwwb

jwwb wrote: »

One observation: very little sign of any party running a BIG operation in DubF. Leads me to think that they have all more or less decided that the outcome is pretty much decided and that there is little or nothing to fight for. If there was a seat in the balance I'd expect to see a lot more feet on the ground.

Sinn Fein had their party bus in Balbriggan at the weekend. Martin McGuinness was on the canvass. Not sure how long they spent or if there were in other areas in the constituency.

dslamjack

Hav't seen a partymobile since the Back Jack days of Jack Lynch FF.
Hopefully the boul Martin was't dancing to Bowie's dancing in the street's in a bid to out do Big Ger's dancing at the crossroad's the week before.

martinn123

Last Day for canvass, and not one soul has knocked on my door.

Do they not think the more Rural voter is worthy of a chat.

4 votes lads, you have till 7pm, to call.

Dizzyblonde

I'm in Swords and we've only had two canvassers, I don't think they're really bothering apart from shopping centres and other very busy areas.

TheDoc

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I'm in Swords and I haven't seen a canvasser yet. I have one of Louise O'Reilly's posters in the garden though, it blew off a lamppost in the storm.

Swords myself as well. Had a guy knock on the door looking to yap about Kelleher, told him politely I would never support socialism.

Other then that just leaflets, mountains of leaflets.

Get the feeling because I'm in an area perceived to be predominantly occupied by foreign people, that it's not worth their time canvassing.

Dizzyblonde

I'm in Rivervalley and there have never been so few canvassers.

dslamjack

Yep,its the politics of complacency,they are actually relying on it now I think,once they get in their paid the same whether they bother to turn up or not,or do any work for the few weeks a year,they are required to make an effort and show up in the ''office''.
Look at the bad boy of Tipp north ,Mr Lowry,the worst attendance record in the Dail of all its members,will his pay be docked,like your's or mine if we did't turn up for work,you bet it's not.

TheDoc

dslamjack wrote: »

Yep,its the politics of complacency,they are actually relying on it now I think,once they get in their paid the same whether they bother to turn up or not,or do any work for the few weeks a year,they are required to make an effort and show up in the ''office''.
Look at the bad boy of Tipp north ,Mr Lowry,the worst attendance record in the Dail of all its members,will his pay be docked,like your's or mine if we did't turn up for work,you bet it's not.

Same can be said for Ming, who from what I read a few months back had one of the worst attendance records in Europe.

While he provided reasoning related to family illness, it didn't seem to dawn on him to resign and let the people re-elect someone who will actually attend.

For all the talk from these people focusing on the working class this, lower class that, squeezed middle here, they sure do hang on for dear life to that cushty salary and pension from political service...

dslamjack

Originally posted by the Doc - Same can be said for Ming, who from what I read a few months back had one of the worst attendance records in Europe.

Yaa good auld Ming,totally disappeared off the scene(maybe he was in Amsterdam),he never did get to organise that vote on the legalisation of cannabis or decriminalisation of drugs and the very serious and pressing issues surrounding that whole sorry story of human misery and illicit wealth generated for psychopathic gang's.
Yep that was the biggest disappearing trick since Lord Lucan and Shergar,at least bad Mick is seen to be alive and still causing trouble.
He will probably be back from the lost years in Amsterdam in time for the next election,with an extra pension in his back pocket and with the best intentions of his constituents at heart ... lol

tobsey

I wouldn't be surprised if candidates and their teams are afraid to go out canvassing. There were a lot of threats made on social media about what people would do to party XX when they knocked on the door. There have been enough nasty incidents with rent-a-mobs that they may feel their safety would be at risk.

dslamjack

Originally posted tobsey-- I wouldn't be surprised if candidates and their teams are afraid to go out canvassing. There were a lot of threats made on social media about what people would do to party XX when they knocked on the door. There have been enough nasty incidents with rent-a-mobs that they may feel their safety would be at risk.

There could well be a lot in what you say,and if it is the case and a result of intimidation or the fear of bullying or intimidation,then it will have come to a very sad state of affairs to say the least.

Dizzyblonde

tobsey wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if candidates and their teams are afraid to go out canvassing. There were a lot of threats made on social media about what people would do to party XX when they knocked on the door. There have been enough nasty incidents with rent-a-mobs that they may feel their safety would be at risk.

That could be having an effect all right. I wouldn't feel very safe out canvassing if I was a candidate, in the current climate.

For Joan Burton, being trapped in a car by an angry mob must have been terrifying, and for that reason I would never vote for any party that supports mob mentality, no matter how angry we are over austerity measures or new taxes.