Will you vote for Fianna Fail?

[muppet]

Another week and FF could be down to 10.

Wait till the budget.

[Maguire01]

I can't see them slipping much further. If people will still vote for them at this stage, nothing is likely to sway them.

[Lar Naparka]

I can't see them slipping much further. If people will still vote for them at this stage, nothing is likely to sway them.

I can't either and I'll go as far as to say that they will do better than the opinion polls are suggesting. FF has a large number of hard core supporters and they will turn up to vote come what may.

[Declan]

I see the Sindo is up to it's usual tricks this morning:

THE spectre of a Labour and Sinn Fein-led government, with the support of independent socialist TDs, is now uncomfortably close to reality, according to the latest analysis of voting intentions.

[Maguire01]

I can't see them slipping much further. If people will still vote for them at this stage, nothing is likely to sway them.

I can't either and I'll go as far as to say that they will do better than the opinion polls are suggesting. FF has a large number of hard core supporters and they will turn up to vote come what may.

Definitely. A lot of people won't admit that they'll vote for FF in a poll, but in the privacy of the voting booth, many will continue to vote for them.

[muppet]

I see the Sindo is up to it's usual tricks this morning:

THE spectre of a Labour and Sinn Fein-led government, with the support of independent socialist TDs, is now uncomfortably close to reality, according to the latest analysis of voting intentions.

The simple tactic of rubbishing the FG leader (Kenny/Noonan/Bruton) won't work this time as there as been a significant jump from FF to the left. Initially Labour picked up dissident FFers who would never vote FG but as FF lose die hard votes these votes seem to be going to SF.

I agree FF will do better than the polls. Some of those who will vote for them won't admit it publicly but can be  recognised when they come out with the 'shur there's no one else' mantra.

The question is will the Indo/Sindo stick with FF all the way to the ballot or will they jump ship with the rest of the rats.

[mylestheslasher]

I see the Sindo is up to it's usual tricks this morning:

THE spectre of a Labour and Sinn Fein-led government, with the support of independent socialist TDs, is now uncomfortably close to reality, according to the latest analysis of voting intentions.

I just finished wiping my arse with the Sunday Indo this morning and I can categorically confirm that it is no use for that either.

[RedandGreenSniper]

I see the Sindo is up to it's usual tricks this morning:

THE spectre of a Labour and Sinn Fein-led government, with the support of independent socialist TDs, is now uncomfortably close to reality, according to the latest analysis of voting intentions.

I just finished wiping my arse with the Sunday Indo this morning and I can categorically confirm that it is no use for that either.

Get the sudocrem out.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

I see the Sindo is up to it's usual tricks this morning:

THE spectre of a Labour and Sinn Fein-led government, with the support of independent socialist TDs, is now uncomfortably close to reality, according to the latest analysis of voting intentions.

It seems that the United Left Wing allianace are little more than Socialist British Unionists.

[Nally Stand]

All it's good for

[Donnellys Hollow]

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Lord Haw Haw!

[Banana Man]

I see the Sindo is up to it's usual tricks this morning:

THE spectre of a Labour and Sinn Fein-led government, with the support of independent socialist TDs, is now uncomfortably close to reality, according to the latest analysis of voting intentions.

It seems that the United Left Wing allianace are little more than Socialist British Unionists.

What you mean there lad? i don't follow that one???

[mylestheslasher]

I see the Sindo is up to it's usual tricks this morning:

THE spectre of a Labour and Sinn Fein-led government, with the support of independent socialist TDs, is now uncomfortably close to reality, according to the latest analysis of voting intentions.

It seems that the United Left Wing allianace are little more than Socialist British Unionists.

What you mean there lad? i don't follow that one???

I'll explain it for you. Sindo is stirring trying to get people to not vote for the left in case Labour get to big the biggest party. Mayogodhelpus is in crisis and like an animal backed into a corner he attacks with some insane statement because he is in shock that the people may reject tweedle dum FG and tweedle dee FF. Well thats my reading of it.

[seafoid]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/691b4730-009f-11e0-aa29-00144feab49a.html#axzz17KDueEqu

Ireland's politics
Published: December 5 2010 19:10 | Last updated: December 5 2010 19:10
After the financial meltdown, a bloodbath at the ballot box: that is what assuredly awaits Fianna Fáil in a reckoning with Ireland's enraged voters early next year. The most widely tracked opinion poll on Friday put the long-ruling party – invariably the largest in the Dáil whether out of power or, more usually, in power – in fourth place, overtaken by Sinn Féin.
After the Fianna Fáil-led coalition of Brian Cowen capitulated last week to the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, accepting a package of €85bn in "rescue" loans, it is not just Irish banks that are insolvent but the state that has opted to honour their massive debts.
Mr Cowen has clung on to power, arguing it was of paramount national interest that the government finalised last month's four-year austerity programme, the emergency deal with the "troika" of the ECB, IMF and European Commission, and tomorrow's draconian budget for 2011. Yet the legitimacy of this package is already impaired.
Fianna Fáil commands a mere 13 per cent of popular support – down from 42 per cent in the 2007 election – while only 8 per cent of voters want Mr Cowen to continue as Taoiseach. Indeed, he survives as party leader only because any successor chosen now may not survive the election, such is the scale of the rout facing Fianna Fáil.
The opposition Fine Gael and Labour parties that will almost certainly form the next government have broadly backed the evident need for radical fiscal retrenchment. But that leaves the field open to populism, which the republicans of Sinn Féin – who trounced Fianna Fáil in a by-election last month – have been quick to exploit. The public backlash against the bail-out and surrender of sovereignty to the troika, moreover, could quickly break the cohesion of the incoming coalition, as well as stir up mutinous Fianna Fáil backbenchers anxious to escape electoral oblivion. Passage of the budget is not guaranteed.
Ireland does need a budget that addresses its unsustainable structural deficit, and almost everyone recognises that. Whether taxpayers can or should keep paying the debts of Irish banks – in what is now widely seen as a bail-out of European banks that recklessly lent to them – is another matter.
That will be for the new government to resolve. Their voters, meanwhile, want not just vengeance at the polls but legal accountability for the bankers, builders and politicians whose cronyism brought Ireland to its knees.