YPD Star Wars leaflet

seanoige

What do people make of the YPDs in UCD who are giving out leaflets of a star wars type.

I think its quite humorous



[URL=http://]www.ypds.org[/URL]

Also page 3 of Indo today.

dahamsta

http://www.ypds.org/

county

Are you having a laugh?,please move this!

seanoige

Why?

County please leave the moderating to the moderators.

Yup I have heard about this...
Michael McDowell is apparently Han Solo...

Princess Leah?



I think not.

An innovative idea I suppose.

zepp

myabe they should work on there photoshop technique.:)

TerrorFirmer

Lol...

DadaKopf

It's hilarious. I never knew PDs could have a sense of humour!

fly_agaric

Perhaps Tommy "Parlon Country" Parlon can be Jar-Jar?

themurt

Can't help but be reminded of those "Gulf War 2: Clone of the Attack" posters that were kicking around a while back.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blgulfwars2.htm


I suppose the use of parody/caricature/PhotoShop is the norm in political circles now (Fine Gael's anti-PD posters on their website) as opposed to, oh I don't know, policies worth a damn....

soma

I find the PDs slimey.. the YPDs creepy..

Zombrex

"Attack of the socialists" ... ummm ... :rolleyes:

lostexpectation

click through and read the top two stories on the page, funny, but unfortunately right wing nutters love felling under attack, its their motivation

Annasopra

The Young PD's have proved with this campaign something we've been saying for a long time now - they're nothing more then Space Cadets.

But looking at the leaflet I can see they've confused a few characters -

Bertie Ahern is more like R2D2, a small trundling Taoiseach that makes little nonsensical noises, wanders around aimlessly and is always lurking in the background for no apparent reason.

Brian Cowen would fit in nicely as Jabba the Hutt, a hording sour-faced miser who has little grasp of right or wrong.

Conor Lenihan has to be C3PO, an idiot that always says and does the wrong things at the worst possible time.

Harney could be the death star - a horrific creation that has the power to destroy us all.

The jabbering Ewoks remind me of the Government back benchers - simple creatures who don't speak at all but jump up and down squealing when someone challenges them.

I can easily see Gerry Adams as Chewbacca, a large bristly mass of hair who makes little sense and thinks any problem will go away if you yell a lot and use enough force.

Enda Kenny of course would be the tea boy working for the film crew, never says anything and never allowed in the picture.

And of course McDowell, well lets just say "Luke!! I am die Fuhrer...."


Maybe it's time PD's should come back down to Earth and see what a shambles they've left this country in.

...

Annasopra

Chancellor Ahern has turned to the left-side. After being indoctrinated at Inchydoney, Ahern has exiled the powerful PD Jedi, known as Obi Wan McCreevy, to Brussels. With the loss of this skilful Jedi Knight, the PD Council is losing control of the Senate. The corrupt republican party have forbidden the eager Jedi McDowell from duelling to the death with the selfish Publican's Federation and have permitted a tribe of incompetents to build the second interplanetary terminal, despite the wishes of the wise PD Council.

So they've realised they're being sidelined by FF yet they still want to prop up this "corrupt republican party" -

Are they now admitting the publicans lobby was behind the cafe bar proposal being dropped

Trouble looms in the Republic. The socialists have formed an unholy alliance with the blueshirts to inflict their extremist left-wing ideology on the people. They want to invest €1 billion in Aer Lingus, the Senate-owned trans-Galactic space shuttle, rather than investing the money in hospitals throughout the Republic

this is rich coming from the party that exports patients overseas and wants to privatise our health service to the point where it'll be "only health care" for those who can afford it

Meanwhile, the evil Provisional movement, under the leadership of the mysterious wookie-faced Lord Gerry, are sheltering enemies of the Republic. They are wanted for selling the construction plans of their Deathstar to rebel forces on the drug baron planet of Colombia. After thieving millions in the infamous Northern Star robbery, the evil Shinners have agreed to allow General De Chastelain dismantle their illegal ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. However, the Senate remains doubtful that they will cease their interplanetary smuggling and racketeering.

I'm not sure Liz O Donnell would agree with all this "evil...."

A small but powerful group known only as the PD Jedis, are determined to prevent the evil Shinners and Socialists from taking control of the Senate and implementing economic policies that only work on the third moon of the Planet Naboo.

more like determined to hold on to power

They have already won major battles against the socialists, allowing them to create a low tax, full employment economy. They have defeated the selfish Taxi Driver's Federation, ensuring that nobody has to queue for hours to get home. They have successfully slain the evil Emperor Haughey and set up tribunals to put the corrupt soldiers of destiny behind bars.

taxi's - when was the last time a pd person queued for a taxi cause that statement "nobody has to queue for hours to get home" is rubbish and as for creating a low tax economy - well low income tax possibly but what about all the high stealth taxes

DublinWriter

Johnnymcg wrote:

taxi's - when was the last time a pd person queued for a taxi cause that statement "nobody has to queue for hours to get home" is rubbish

I'm no PD lover, but I do remember the early 90's before Taxi-deregulation and the 2-hour farce that was trying to get out of Dublin city centre on weekend nights.

Back then the taxi trade was so lucrative that guys were putting ads in Evening newspapers offering to trade a house in Dublin for a taxi plate.

...and I say it again, I'm no PD lover, but Harney was the only politician with balls (!) enough to tackle the almost militant self-interest lobby group that was the Taxi Drivers Federation back in the early 90's.

There is space for a Right of centre party in this country, however, the PD's are just, well, scary.

Normally in your youth you start off being quite a lefty and move steadily right as you get older. God help the Young PD's.

Ajnag

Pathetic, Just Pathetic.
Same go's for labour youths response.
In fact same go's for all student politics.

Also one might wonder if pd students use warez photoshoppage?
(Certainly not the gimp anyway...Too socialist :rolleyes:)

/End message....

Ajnag

OH CHRIST!!!

It gets worse!
http://www.ypds.org/download/Therepublic.MP3

And another thing:

Originally Spammed by seanoige
What do people make of the YPDs in UCD who are giving out leaflets of a star wars type.

I think its quite humorous



www.ypds.org

Also page 3 of Indo today.

If your gonna friggen spam get the bloody link right ffs! And the Indo editorial also tore the hole out of ya for this attempt btw.

I was going to post a gathering card, but meh !¬!

zuma

soma wrote:

I find the PDs slimey.. the YPDs creepy..

I agree with you.

RainyDay

DublinWriter wrote:

I'm no PD lover, but I do remember the early 90's before Taxi-deregulation and the 2-hour farce that was trying to get out of Dublin city centre on weekend nights.

Back then the taxi trade was so lucrative that guys were putting ads in Evening newspapers offering to trade a house in Dublin for a taxi plate.

...and I say it again, I'm no PD lover, but Harney was the only politician with balls (!) enough to tackle the almost militant self-interest lobby group that was the Taxi Drivers Federation back in the early 90's.

Your memory is failing you. The PD's (and the Govt) had little to do with taxi deregulation. In fact, they wanted to give a limited number of additional plates to the existing taxi drivers. From http://ted.examiner.ie/archives/2000/October/14/current/ipage_21.htm

The ruling came in a case taken by Dublin and Dundalk hackney drivers against Government plans to award current taxi drivers most of the 3,100 new taxi plates being issued.

The actual deregulation was a decision of the High Court.

From http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10003249.shtml

PD Senator John Minihan who is also a pharmacist. claimed credit for the deregulation of the taxi trade. In fact, deregulation followed a High Court decision.

From http://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/ecaffa/v23y2003i4p34-40.html

The deregulation of the taxi sector in Ireland by the High Court in 2000 brought a three-fold increase in taxi numbers and much reduced passenger waiting times for taxis. The deregulation decision by the High Court was based on the rights of persons to enter a sector for which they had the training and skills and the right of the public to purchase the services of such persons. The decision was upheld in judicial review

Bobby Molloy only stepped in once the court had made the tough decision.

Victor

DublinWriter wrote:

...and I say it again, I'm no PD lover, but Harney was the only politician with balls (!) enough to tackle the almost militant self-interest lobby group that was the Taxi Drivers Federation back in the early 90's

But it was the courts that caused deregulation, not the government.

Ajnag

The only thing I can credit the pd's with was the move to keep third level free(ish). Only thing was....It was a bit....Socialist! :eek:

RainyDay

Ajnag wrote:

The only thing I can credit the pd's with was the move to keep third level free(ish). Only thing was....It was a bit....Socialist! :eek:

Again, credit where no credit is due. There was no serious plan to reinstate 3rd level fees. There was (yet another) solo run by Noel Dempsey who made a couple of comments in passing, but this was never a serious policy position. FF won't bite the hand that feeds.

billy the squid

Ajnag wrote:

The only thing I can credit the pd's with was the move to keep third level free(ish). Only thing was....It was a bit....Socialist! :eek:

€750 registration fee is still a ****load of money though, waiting until november to get it back is pointless when you aint got it.

Nuttzz

billy the squid wrote:

€750 registration fee is still a ****load of money though, waiting until november to get it back is pointless when you aint got it.

oh boo bleeding hoo....

try 3k a year for 4 years in the "good old days" thats in punts too....

Ajnag

Or taking out a hundred k loan when your eighteen. That and a morgatage means some americans will be repaying debt until retirement. We have it easy by anyones standards.