Irish politics discussion thread

ive realised that my dad a. is still into FF and b. makes up random facts when you argue w/ him abt politics. ive been googling his bs lately.

FF will always get at least 25%, regardless of dead girls/live boys/shit economies.

they'll never get 25%

Dunno, I really can't see FF going below 20% in any case - too many party loyalists out there.

depends on if cowen stays. Far too divisive a figure now for all FF camp to vote with him in charge.

They'll realise that themselves in time, though.

If he stays they'll fall below 20% mark, under say hanafin or similar they'll struggle to beat 23% i think.

Hanafin took a short term hit this week, but her advice to cowen and handling of the week as a whole has been spot on. Martin not as damaged now as he would have been had biffo not let a narrow vote victory go to his head like that.

Big loser is lenihan imo.

boils down to the ratio of ff diehards (dwindling) * ratio of cowen diehards in that group (evaporating)

sf to be senior opposition party.

Yeah, that would be really interesting...

!!!!

omg!!!

btw how can the taoiseach just *decide* hes not gonna budge, i just dont get it.

from the position of taoiseach? He needs to lose a specific vote of confidence in the dail on the issue i think. Basically what labour and fg are calling for tuesday.

but they may not, it seems. It's getting cloudy on what they'll accept in return for an early election. It's cloudy whether they even want to have any part of the finance bill, it might be handier for them to have it as a ff-only document for political reasons, but that cant happen without someone else's support in the dail. Tricky.

gilmore said he wants the dail dissolved by the end of the week

finance bill for friday, i think. If the various finance spokespeople cant come to broad agreement tomorrow with a view to that happening.

Lenihan just called a spoofer to his face on rte1 YOMP

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/paimages/2011/01/N0314651295801366076A.jpg

this pic is crackin me up right now

he's looked weird this week, is there some comedy/cartoon bird or something?

http://www.toeingtherubber.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/iceage3.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/GandF.gif/250px-GandF.gif

ff front bench

So there's an election in about a month and FF won't have a new leader for a while? Yikes.

I think that photo reminded me of the white fellow here:
http://angrybirdsgoldeneggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Angry-Birds-Where-the-Eggs.jpg

givin me kindof a chicken boo vibe

http://www.dareland.com/Chkn_boo.jpg

not to be racist or pointing fingers necessarily but why is the white fellow not questioning the missing egg????

ok i am kinda prejudging this, bc he looks guilty as fuck, let's be real

What with his suspiciously egg-shaped beak you mean? I dunno. (xpost)

possibly he is the egg, and has just crudely fashioned a beak out of some shell, i mean they're only birds he has to fool and not partic smart ones by the look of it

is this like a metaphor

not to my knowledge

guys if you want to derail a thread with random unfunny interjection we already have excelsior.

-_-

eh, jays, that wasnt 100% in earnest youse clowns

what percent was it?

you grill like miriam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHdchsdkfz4&feature=player_embedded

let's console ourselves with this fine piece of art, celebrating everything that's good about being irish.

what in the actual fuck

man i hate surfing on my phone i miss all the craic

Again, as i said earlier the only ones who are bitching about this song are cultural racists from Ireland who are having a piss fest over the fucking IRA pin, no one gives a fuck. It's not a fucking political statement. You Ireland born people are fucking lame all you do is go around and look for Irish Americans on youtube and put them down. This is why no one takes you seriously you are all about as smart as fucking rocks. Stupid cunts.
PWDforlifebrah 21 hours ago
PWDforlifebrah 21 hours ago

all true imo

tell yis what, it is hard to live up to the expectations of irish americans on youtube in general ime

lmao feelin this heavily

green white ornge

stylophone breakdown

a+ wld never watch again

You guys know this is gonna place in the ILM tracks poll, right?

don't be silly nothing irish-american cld ever be connected with electoral fraud

Just sayin, we got about 20 ballots from ILXors with names like "MackleMore1111" and "MackleMore3142".

I figured they were just lurkers.

they've agreed on the bill/schedule. surprised at that tbh

oh yeah, we are having an election.