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Time for the west to wake up.
Haha. His attempt to rally the troops turned into an insult and a what’s this eejit saying!
But he is right about the whingers. Look at here on journal:
Tax increase = government bad even if used to fund public services.
Tax cut = must be an election coming. They want to buy votes.
Job losses= governments fault
New Jobs = government did nothing to create the jobs or are bad jobs.
Homelessness = governments fault
Homeless reduced by 41% this year = it wasn’t the government who helped
The sky is cloudy = yeah we never see blue sky
Sky is blue = yeah but rain is on the way.
Ah so if your not feeling the recovery.. You or family members are suffering as a result of the poor health service. Suffered because of cuts to disabilities services. Cuts every where. Your a whinger according to enda. Real leadership their enda. What should people bow to you.
Tell the truth enda, you don’t really want to be Taoiseach anymore, do you??
FC, how did you get your figures so massively wrong yesterday? You predicted up to 100,000. Figures vary on media but circa 20k seems to be correct..
Never a truer word spoken Greg Kelly. There was a jobs announcement here recently we had a number of contributors here saying it was an election stunt. So what if it was an election stunt. There real jobs, jobs what will give someone a reason to get up in the morning. Jobs that will put money back in people pockets. Of course there many the contributors here that would do a day work if you plug them into the mains but will moan about everything none the less.
Kenny is embarrassing, been costing FG 5% in every election since 2002.
“What? Diarmuid the FG monkey said something negative about Kenny? Thought we’re all agenda driven hacks on the Journal. Chuckie ar law” – [Insert Shinnerbot Here]
Changing your tune monkey now election is here
And there it is . doesn’t take long for someone like mickmc to show his arrogance. Just can’t help it throwing in the insults. Must be a party trait.
Fine Gael would want to come down off there high horses and see what the people on the ground are experiencing, before opening there gobs in future. How about living on the minimum wage for even a month or getting a dole payment for a month and try and feed your family Taoiseach. See how you would fare. These whingers you talk off are the ‘little people’ you referred to a number of years ago. Paddy likes a fair recovery not just one for your mates.
“FC, how did you get your figures so massively wrong yesterday? You predicted up to 100,000. ”
Did I?
I suppose you can post a link to that ‘jason’?
No need for inverted comma’s, Jason is my name. But no problem with the link, here you are:
Your quote on 23.01.16
“80-100K when everybody comes up to Dublin for a single big protest”.
http://www.thejournal.ie/water-protests-2-2564346-Jan2016/#comment-4693389
Sprung!
After they get passed all the flooding…
All the FG and SF arguing here last few years. Meanwhile Fianna Fáil sneaking along the rail unnoticed. Believe you me everybody – FIANNA FÁIL WILL BE THE PARTY EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT NEXT SATURDAY.
I can’t stand the c&nts but they are like an abusive husband worming his way back to his suffering wife. They will be at least 25 seats clear of SF next Saturday, and could even pip FG. The polls are a joke. Sure 20% voted for FF in 2011 for gods sake, when they were absolutely toxic!!
All of these people will vote for them again, and it’s easy to see them picking up another 5-8% this time around.
Pretty sickening really
Well yes Greg, what you’re describing there is a democracy. They’re never going to make everyone happy all the time but they need to try and give a bit of something to everyone. When a leader of a country calls the unhappy people whingers he’s no longer capable of his job.
The right to change want change. but is change always good. Iraq has had big change. Switzerland has had no chance for hundreds of years.
FF have spent 4.5 of past 5 years telling us that FG were just following the economic policies laid down by FF ( as dictated by the troika).
FF and FG are big business, bond holders, bankers parties. Their ivory towers are so high they no longer see the ordinary man ir women except when they need votes. Withhold your votes from them and their lackies in liebour.
Very true Pepper. Most articles on here are either on FG or SF. They are getting away too lightly in the run up to the elections. Get on to Hugh and lets all have a few flashbacks.
For once watersedge I agree with you. Irish people have very short memories. Fianna Fáil ran this country into the ground worse than any other party in history and it’s all forgotten just five short years later
Jason, I don’t know whether you’re being sill or dishonest, maybe both. But I’ll explain regardless….
1. I did not predict 100,000. I made no prediction of the sort. I stated that the national protests get 80,000-100,000. The difference between 80,000 and the number you’re falsely claiming I predicted is the same number RTE is claiming showed up in total, which is also false. There is no way I would predict 100,000 for a protest in the middle of February, so stop spoofing.
2. RTE is claiming 20,000. R2C is claiming 80,000. I put the figure yesterday north of 70,000. RTEs figures have been so discredited that Waterford whispers even parodied it. There were also bystanders yesterday posting on here claiming massive numbers. II’l go with my lying eyes rather than a government troll account.
3. The photos and videos. That 20,000 figure is only fooling the same people who get their news from the 6-1.
Your lies and spoofery have been exposed once again “For” Connolly.
Not surprising, coming from a shinnetbot.
I’m no good at estimating crowds of freeloaders Ted, but I’d say there were around twenty million of them there. At least.
Jamming, you said clearly that there would be 80-100k people on Dublin for the big one. Stop manipulating words and just accept it and move on. You got it wrong. It’s there in black and white. You asked for proof, for a link; I gave it tot yy. Accept it. All the best now.
Ff never again https://youtu.be/aEIWNtb41k8
So Connolly you are twisting so much that first you are saying you meant the total country wide (coming up to Dublin is countrywide of course) which is an admission that there were not 80k in Dublin but then you say the number was 70k in Dublin… so only 10k in the rest of the country? Is this counting with your socks off?
How is one estimate of numbers verses another estimate either lies or spoofery?
At best both numbers can be taken as political lead guesstimates, and anyone watching or seeing pics can make up thier own mind to how many attended.
My problem is that 1 higher estimate , that by organisers or marchers is openly agenda driven, the other lower setimate is from a supposedly indepenent public financed source.
Greg Kelly Glad you are so pleased with your life, long may it continue . you obviously have nothing to complain about,,but you are only one person,and obviously the cut backs and added taxes,did not affect you .your attitude is “I alright Jack to hell with you Mick! If you have nothing to contribute in the way of sense stay off social media not be making a show of yourself .!!
So your disputing rte,s figures of 15000-20,000 Martino good man. When there was 100,000 at the marches rte were claiming 30,000 at best. Even if it was 40,000 yesterday I,d say that was pretty good with the day that was in it. I dont think it matters that much anymore now with the ge next Friday thats when the blueshirts and liebour will get what the people really feel about traitors.
No one believes RTE/Fox News any more , Their abacus has been broken since they tried counting trolleys in A+E
Deirmuid, I take my hat off to you. Never before have I read so many comments by one individual, to amass so many red thumbs. I think you need a new approach. Don’t do the Kenny/Burton thing and blame everyone else it tends not to work.
I was at the right2change march and it was far more than 20k that’s for sure, at least 50, 000 on the streets on a wet windy Sat!
He never wanted it
This is the kind of shit that loses elections. Keep it up.
His advisers off for the w/e
Will he turn up for Vincent Brown hope not, look what that did for Joan and the labout party, cut their poll figure in half lol.
#GerryForTaoiseach
Shinnerbot have you nothing better to be at?
It’s scary that the leader of our country needs an adviser to tell him not to insult his own constituents
Yep..all 14 of them
I hope the people of Castlebar show Enda the red card on Friday.
I have no interest in politics of any sort but he really is some clown, I wonder how many thousands of votes that comment alone will cost fine gael, a good few I would think and rightly so. Maybe he has nothing to be upset or vent his anger about but a hell of alot of people do
Vote him out Castlebar, do us all a favour.
Will your Pegida Ireland candidate knock him off his perch, Wiggy?
Your like a united fan monkey, all hot air and switch sides and seny you ever supportes them when your losing
And that’s coming from the bloke who turns a funny colour and sounds like he’s going to start crying every time he’s required to speak!
That’s not how you win people over Edna..
Anyone know how he is polling in his constituency?
Enda pulls a Bertie and insults people in difficulty which is a large percentage of then population . Oh dear. Simon and Leo must be licking their lips.
Have ye ever heard the likes of it. Running for head of government and attacking the electorate.
Hes a champion of class divide and that comment he made is concrete proof of it
Red Sea Pool of leaders constituency has him comfortably elected along with Michael Ring and Dara Calleary. Lisa Chambers above sitting on 9% or so
No not the electorate, only the people in the people in his own constituency, more precisely in the main town within that constituency, those that gave him the power last time out. He did not say that people all over Ireland are whinging, he said and I quote “I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don’t mean Castlebar Mitchels (a GAA team), I mean the whingers I hear every week saying ‘there’s nothing happening’.. Now thicko, I mean Teacher, I mean Taoiseach, you might have got away with saying the sane thing about anyone else around the country but sh^tting on your own doorstep. Congratulations, just when it was all going wrong for you, you manage a real stupid comment like this. Your foot must look like a colander at this stage. By the way, for a lot of people including most of Castlebar, most of Mayo, nay, most of Ireland; NOTHING IS HAPPENING1
Just because your comfortably elected doesnt give you a right to attack your employers with an “untouchable” attitude. As head of government you serve all constituents not just the ones that vote for you. That is clear contempt of lower classes. He is inciting class divide when he attacks pockets of society. Its unbearably unprofessional and unstatesmanlike. If the lower classes dont feel the benefits of a recovery its because his policys made it that way and now hes reflecting his failure of them onto them. Its outragious behaviour from head of government
Patrick Corley, Shush…they don’t want to hear the facts this is an anti-Enda whinge fest…confirmation bias has taken hold.
Mad isn’t it? I didn’t state an opinion or anything just mentioned that there is a poll that has him comfortably elected. He doesn’t have my vote as it happens but to suggest he won’t be elected when there is a credible, comprehensive poll stating otherwise is just being in denial.
Patrick the posts ive made werent at you they were just reflections of his attitude at being a shoe in. I read your comment as matter of factly, which it is.
My post was in reply to Winston and the amount of red thumbs I got. Thought the page would show who I replied to….clearly not.
I hope his constituents appreciate being treated like five year-olds.
Nah, just the whingers
“Let me tell you Neil Prendeville” — once a school teacher.
everybody here is right. fg has made a hash of this election. They did a good job on the recovery but as soon as the election was called they started auction politics like all the rest. Instead of steady as she goes it was full speed ahead into the ice berg!
Enda you are finished! You were canvassing for yourself only all week in Castlebar! Your message to voters 1 Enda Kenny 2 Michelle mulhern 3 Michael ring. Because you know people will vote for Michael ring because he is a good man with lots of good work done. You will only be elected on transfers from Michael ring if you are lucky! The sign on the way into Castlebar “the town Kenny forgot” says it all. You have forgotten Castlebar, mayo and indeed this country!
In fairness when negotiating Anglo debt with the ECB he must certainly didn’t forget this country,
I’m no Kenny fan but to suggest he won’t get elected this time is naive in the extreme. He topped the poll and got almost 25% of the first preference votes last time round. He would also get a significant amount of transfers from the other FG candidates if he dose t reach the quota. He has one of the safest seats in the country
He also barely kept his seat in 2002. Granted he had little profile then, but why Mayo would re-elect him is beyond me
Any of the downvoters want to put €20 on it?
Ring & Kenny seats are safe.
Ring yes, Kenny no.
The whingers will decide!
I think the phrase is had, his landslide last year was on the back of false promises and people desperate for change.
He had been doing this for 40 years. The people are Mayo had many opportunities to lose him. They won’t when he has the top job.
This transfer of votes is disgraceful it should be stopped
Jho is right, last time round the electorate were desperate for change and believed all the guff and high talking, now the electorate are wiser and more clued in. Alienating a sizable percentage of your own constituents is not a good idea. He’s an insulting little runt.
Maybe, lets see. He may need transfers…
At this stage,does anyone expect him to open his mouth..and not put his foot in it ..
What a plonker.
The FG party have no credibility. That is and has been their major problem some sometime. You simply cannot believe a word from them.
This is why, FG and Liebour should not get a single preference and be just left blank. They believe anyone who disagrees with them are just whinging. Homelessness is the worst it has ever been. You’re just whinging. As bad as the health service was it’s worse now. You’re just whinging. Etc etc…..
Sounds a bit like when Bertie said people should kill themselves. Enda must be feeling under pressure if he is saying derogatory things about his own people.
Utterly out-of-touch, gombeen; the leader of liars and the corrupt. And yet his party is polling at 30%, so who is that an indictment of?
There is a recovery if you’re a millionaire, tax exile, white collar criminal, banker developer, large builder.
If you are old, poor, marginalised, sick with no private health insurance or a worker FG does not care about you.
I am none of those. I am middle income earner who is seeing a recovery albeit small but I can see it happening. I see plenty of 161 cars on the road, not high end cars (I do t have one myself), restaurants are busy, report during week of all the new bars opening, unemployment cut in half . Report on here last night that almost 91% of new jobs are full time. These are not the elite.
Your a FG troll account and no one is listening
You just did!
I don’t read your drivel, you are in the Automatic red thumb category now.
Greg they say ‘lets keep the recovery going’ but unemployment is at 17% in my constituency.
A bit down Pegida Ireland not registering in the polls, Wiggy?
Keep the chin up big guy!
Luke that sucks. I am in a mixed area with some recovery and some high unemployment, but I can see the improvements Most shops that were closed down now seem open again. Who do you think can actually improve things? Serious question?
Garwig, obviously I am not on your automatic red thumbs as you took the time to reply to me.
You and the monkey, if I had a euro for every red thumb I gave him I have 2 billion Fine Gael euros in my fiscal space.
Yeah. Like the ‘ordinary citizen’ who is 1 of the top 20% income earners who can direct large amounts to a private pension fund and get a chunk of the €2.5 billion tax benefits.
Greg how does that 93% figure tally with this country rising to 2nd place in OECD lists of low paid economy under FG/Liebour. 22% of work force. ???
http://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-low-wage-paying-jobs-by-country-2014-9?IR=T
Don’t forget that these pension funds were raided based on the value of the fund. So the big earners took a bigger hit
M Bowe
That article is from eh 2014! Times have changed.
How about one from yesterday showing all the good full time jobs we now have today in 2016:
93% may be full time but as your own link says on Bruton’s claim of well paid,
‘whether or not these jobs are “very well paid” is a question for another day.
As OECD figures are well researched and FG are renowned liars I’ll trust the OECD figures.
No public pension funds were raided Not private pension funds, they form the vulture capital hedge funds mopping up NAMA assets at bargain basement prices. Double bubble for top 20%.
When Sinn Fein proposed back in 2010/11 on using the pension reserve fund to help finance SMEs and sole traders who were being strangled by the bailed out banks, FG were up in arms, then within 2 years they used these funds to prop up Irish water while those businesses, many forming back bone of rural communites,have gone to the wall. Now those wirkers are referred to as whingers, freeloaders, benefit scroungers etc by many FG supporters on posts here.
He’s incredibly arrogant, no issue with fobbing off and insulting those who elect him. Seems he doesn’t believe he needs them.
Why would he top the poll, why would his constituents believe he represents them?
It’s NOT fair blaming our beloved Guru for those comments. NO it was that Mertal one that wrote his script… You can see her influence in it. Teach would never say that off his own batt.
@colm byrne – Yes its amazing how he treats his own people, whether from Mayo or anywhere in Ireland. He’s not a people person. How often have u heard him talk of people. Its always the ‘faceless’ ECONOMY. People don’t enter Endas equation – his agenda is purely for the betterment of the business community.
The man is a liability to FG once he is let out without advisors.Thankfully
The future is bright for who? yes that’s right for big business, big farmers and Fine Gael cronies if these gombeens get reelected.
All the leaders of the main parties are a liability. Kenny is a lapdog with no balls. Martin is damaged goods . Burton is a raving lunatic and Adams doesn’t exactly come across as the most intelligent person when talking about financing the economy.
JK – he’s a liability alright, but then what leader of any party appears any different.
Couldn’t put it any better than that totally agree.
Social Democrats for one.
Pressure’s getting to Enda.
Typical FG if you poor your a whinger and we will walk all over you as the last 5 years confirm
If your rich or a banker then your a lobbyist?
I wonder how long it will be before he meets the man with two pints or the homeless man in the park…obviously its one of them who told him about the good people of Castlebar complaining!!!!
Or the man that went on a hunger strike???
Don’t be bringing Halawa into it. The world champion hunger striker.
No not him… Tony Rochford.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/enda-kenny-to-meet-property-tax-hunger-striker-29407631.html
All Ireland Champion Plonker
Empty buildings,job losses ,high rate of suicide,people put on job schemes to mask actual unemployment.poor hospital facilities with overworked staff ,jobs for the boys .and shite representation for mayo is all Enda Kenny has given.all hand shakes now and a knife in the back later.
Kenny’s second in command, Burton, is the biggest whinger in the country. She’s Tanaiste and moans more than the entire opposition gets paid to do.
There’s nothing “Bizarre” about calling out whingers. The author clearly thinks it’s bizarre, but is it?
Shades of Bertie.
Thought that myself stopped short of telling people to go off and kill themselves mind
Ah, but the constituents are being disobedient and ungrateful. Indah is quite right to castigate them. People giving out to The Dear Leader?!? Well I never.
Arrogance of power
I hope there are plenty of whingers. Thousands in fact who vote him into oblivion
Be careful what you wish for!!!
All the charisma of a wet fish.
Tick Tock Enda you bollix , your time is nearly up.
Patronising prat.
One word sums up Fine Gael in office.
ARROGANCE.
Fine Gael are the Barcelona of European politics.
Probably not the best analogy. Barcelona are great to watch and get the job done so you can forgive their arrogance. FG, not so much.
Oran Joyce
- What Gerry Adams has every morning with his toast & coffee…??
Kennys not a credible taoiseach. He got the job by default 5 years ago. He’s one of the biggest liabilitys to the FG party and the country as a whole. He’s responsible for FG collapsing nationwide in the election campaign and he’s trying his best now to eff up his own election chances now in Mayo. I don’t know what to think of his advisors, either they cringe because they have to look after such an idiot or they’re not much better than him themselves. Maybe a mixture of both.
Kenny & Noonan not fit for purpose
Who is? Now’s your chance!
So despite them turning around FF’s mess over the last 5 years they are not credible?
I think Noonan has a lot to do with them having a bad election campaign – cock up on the fiscal space numbers of over 2 billion. Kenny is Kenny, we expect that sort of stuff coming from him. didn’t expect it from Noonan.
Greg, the economy hot rock bottom, the only way was up. No matter who was in office the economy was going to grow and this has been accelerated simply due to external factors completely out of the control of our puny government. Exchange rates for example. Decline of the euro because of ECB quantitative easing. All this has NOTHING to do with the government. That’s the facts of the matter.
@Ian: Lol. You just prove Greg’s very first point above. Something bad happens: all the government’s fault. Something good happens: government had nothing to do with it.
Enda done nothing but implement a FF plan set out by Brian Lenihan…..
You mean like how Greece Portugal Spain and Italy are also growing from rock bottom?
Well said HOTBank, they say the policians live in a world of their own but some of the users on here do. FG have done a great job over the past 5 years and will bring the country into a great era of prosperity if elected for the next 5
Greg, name 5 actions that FG took that caused the economy to turn around.
In times past, many believed that great benefits would befall ones constituency if a taoiseach eminated from it’s political ranks, and usually it did. Until now. Hopefully, the good people of Mayo will now realise that their county is only a doormat for EK to wipe his shoes before he sets foot on the corridors of power in Dublin and Europe. Maybe they will do the decent thing and throw him out, before he consigns rural Ireland to ghost towns and estates.
You’ll be telling us all to hang ourselves next. Bleedin arrogance of ya. Enda the idiot out out out
Is this his “why don’t they commit suicide” Ahern moment
In fairness, the remarkable nature of that comment was utterly unprecedented – and also unlikely to be repeated.
If that comment had simply been left at ‘cribbing and moaning’, ‘whingers’ would be comparable.
Just thinking that myself
Imagine all those children from Mayo who escaped from having inda as a teacher over the last 40 years,The man cannot string a sentence together and mumbles. The default leader of our country due to the last shower of equally enept clowns,Imagine at bis age having to get speech lessons from a prominent comms company owner son. While in Castlebar a few weeks ago people told me that Ring is more popular than inda.
All Ireland wingers? They don”t know what an All Ireland is in Mayo it’s been that long
Seriously Enda is a fool a dangerous fool at this stage.
I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don’t mean Castlebar Mitchels (a GAA team), I mean the whingers I hear every week saying ‘there’s nothing happening’.
SO HOMELESS CHILDREN ARE WHINGERS, SO THE SEXUALLY ABUSED ARE WHINGERS, HOMELESS FAMILIES WHO LOST THEIR HOME ARE WHINGERS, PEOPLE SCARED OF LOOSING THEIR HOME ARE WHINGERS, THOSE ON TROLLIES ARE WHINGERS, PEOPLE DYING IN HOSPITALS DUE TO MISTAKES ARE WHINGERS, PEOPLE ON JIOBBRIDGE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS BECAUSE OF JOBBRIDGE ARE WHINGERS, UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE ARE WHINGERS, PEOPLE WITH THEIR HOME AND LAND FLOODED ARE WHINGERS, THOSE SELF EMPLOYED WHO CAN’T GET ANY SOCIAL WELFARE ARE WHINGERS….
We now know the contempt that F.G. has for free speech, democracy and for poverty…
Must not ruin their slogan LETS GET THE RECOVERY GOING now as they need a second term to really butcher things up on the poor and look after the bankers again…
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/noonan-and-howlin-risked-economic-recovery-to-deliver-political-budget-says-ec-report-376091.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/troika-to-question-spending-in-budget-2016-1.2420685
Are the news papers whingers as well for exposing truths?
The bankers, oh sorry, imean small business owners wont be happy with those comments.
Enda the fantasist can’t understand why people don’t think he’s wonderful? If I can paraphrase Ghandi regarding Enda’s dealing with the citizenry it might go: First he ignored them, then he laughed at them, then he fought and tried scaring them. Then…
…who wins?
Are you afraid of enda kenny?
http://trickstersworld.com/2016/02/15/you-got-the-f-e-a-r/
This man represents us at international tables. No wonder we took the hit for the European banking system. Please don’t vote for him or give an preference to FG.
Noonan didn’t even bother to ASK for any debt write down !!!!! It beggars belief. No wonder the Greeks can’t stand him. We have to at least have someone who PRETENDs ffs.
Ignorance, don’t vote for him.
It’s all a bit sinister and scary to be honest. Seems like Enda, Joan, AK Kelly, et.al. can do and say what they like in this election. Yet the polls still have them ahead by a sizeable margin. But if you go on any thread anywhere, the comments show the complete opposite, even here.There is little or no support for him.
So either the polls are rigged, or the election of Kenny and his government is already assured, regardless of what is seen and said on all social media. Something very dangerous is going on here.
Dave doyle as just thinking same thing. Where are all thse FG voters. I haven’t met a single person who has a good word to say about them. I mean Dalkey and Dublin 4:and a few rich farmers surely couldn’t be enough to put FG back in. Very strange.
Something is askew, there are more registered to vote than there are people eligible to vote. The polls are trying to convince us that FG are so far ahead, yet the support is just not there for them. Something really stinks about this.
So Mayo are the champions at whinging
Yes Tony he did say Mayo were the champions of whinging. Imagine that
WTF is this man on about, he was elected to do a job on his promises which him and his party broke, in democracy he works for the people and no one else like Merkel, Troika, Hedge funders, bondholders or the banks but the citizens and voters of this country.
As an employee of us citizens he has failed and ruined his second interview, any person who did or said that to his boss would not get a promotion? Why then a second term as lord and master when he is suppose to be a public SERVANT?
“The Taoiseach’s comments are a clear indication of just how out of touch and disconnected from reality he has become,” I AM THINKING GET NERO’s FIDDLE OUT QUICK as he didn’t burn the bondholders just the tax payers after he let Merkel turn bank debt into tax payers debt…
Frightening how out of touch this man is! Just take a look around Ballinrobe,Claremorris and Kiltimagh,maybe Castlebar to a lesser extent-ghost towns the lot of them. Westport probably an exception to the rule and that’s down to the hard work of the business people in the town.
If there was something happening they would still be moaning, Irish people love it.
The photoshopped mask has started to slip off . Most of These hardened politicians probably wish we would all do what Berty suggested . #shameless
http://www.thejournal.ie/joan-burton-department-consultants-spending-2120663-May2015/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/taoiseach-to-spend-900k-on-advisers-and-assistants-313395.html
Consultants being sent from the U.S. to meet the government in Dublin Castle a few years back and teaching the government how to spin things and how to control their image to the media and they were from the U.S. Wasn’t there about 500 at a meeting in Dublin Castle to do with this, on how to use propaganda to get what you want?
Hasn’t worked…
Why Fine Gael will always Fail … a nasty vindictive Political (Whip) party.
70% dont want Fine Gael … a nasty vindictive party who take LPT from pensioners Medical Expense refunds & planned for Water Tax (by oppressive laws of Attachment Orders – legacy of 12th century serfdoms) when they cant keep up the LPT tax payments.
Fine Gael have no problem with introducing regressive taxes. Its in their DNA. They cant help being nasty and vindictive pathologically … AND there is No NEED for it …. thats the shame… Enda, your lot need to be genetically modified , especially Noonan.
A bit rich coming from the village idiot. Kenny can’t debate and relies on just throwing learned off lines and figures at his opponents. He panics when asked questions and regularly avoids answering just like Joan. This man doesn’t deserve to head a government
I’ve been reading in the mainstream newspapers that Fine Geal’s strategists are relying on ‘frightening’ voters to shore up their own support. That’s straight out of the Irish politics manual. If you’ve been following what happened in the last Dail they the only real fear you’ll have is ‘politics as usual’ in this country. Also, Kenny’s comment recalls Ahern’s “…cribbers and moaners……”, which just about sums up the level of debate for so long in this country. FF, FG and Labour TD’s and ministers have great difficulty in presenting any kind of consistent, coherent, substantiated arguments and just resort to attack mode. Yes, it’s easier for the opposition parties and TD’s, because they don’t have to make the kind of compromises governments do, but this just not justify the contempt FF, FG and Labour adopt in public debate.
In spite of all RTE are doing to help him, he goes and commits Harry Carry, what a tool
This is the first time ever!! I am delighted with Enda Kenny,he has scored an own goal,and let the people know what he thinks of us all,we are all Whingers if it wasent so serious I could have a good laugh,this has been Endas attitude all along even with the most vulnerable in society,when they just could not live on the pittance he allowed them in order to pay back the big bond holders,I could go on,and on, but I wont, I am not a whinger just a concerned citizen,
That Fg/lab consider this as a recovery is generally symptomatic of their complete lack of standards. Howlin invests funds in a psychological social engineering company as consultants to spin unpalatable charges which begs the question If this is their version of recovery what further depths of service obliteration are we going to be sold as the recession which noonan informed us to expect due to global disquiet?
As a society, we deserve every moron we vote into power.
What a prize pr^(k
How dare the the people who were saddled with billions of euros worth of bankers/ unsecured bondholders debt whing……sure did FG “slash” the USC by 1% last month. Bloodly whingers. Can this man be any more hateful?
Ah, Enda,Ye silver tongued little scamp ye.
This won’t end well. For Enda.
Another non news article…but hey, it gives the many anti-Kenny whingers on the board a chance to have another rant. Enda may be lacking in the personal charisma department but he still stands taller than Cowen or Ahern before him. One turned up hung over on national radio while the other was telling whingers to go and hang themselves. It’s party policy not leaders that matter. The party can change the leader. From other reports it looks like sexy Leo might be waiting in the wings to take over after the election but still it’s policy that will count.
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word “doublethink” involved the use of doublethink.”
The Party”s concept of ‘doublethink’ 1984
Sexy Leo.? Oh God
I think you are taking all this too seriously Al. Maybe you should have a cup of tea and a bickie and a little rest.
That’s grand – it is only a game to you and your friends, ‘Winston’. For others it’s a lot more serious.
Rashers, the people playing games are those not looking seriously at the economy. Business doesn’t play games and you can be sure they won’t be following SF or any of those looney left independents who would drive us back five years by just getting into government let alone implementing any of their kamikaze policies.
Cowen & Ahern yesterday’s men
Tomorrows lobbyists lol.
Winston, do you think there might be something ironic about your avatar/name when discussing Irish politics, particularly given how FG and Labour were saying diametrically opposite things in opposition and government and denying they ever said what they said about FF/PD/Green budgets? Could we all just hold our politicians and the party’s we vote for to a higher standard, or any real standard at all?
Winston I think you should think more carefully who you vote to head our Country, i’m getting the vibes that you haven’t suffered this last 5 years and the i’m al right Jack which some people have, well there are people in this Country suffering since FG.were voted 5 years ago,why should you care .
Von, how wrong you are. Having suffered unemployment created by FF one realises that the only alternative on offer is a FG pro business policy led government. A lot of whingers in this country don’t realise how worse it could have been.
Poor Winston, you’re up to your knees in this one. Or it that Enda Incognito?
kenny is a clown…all u have to do is look at his home town… the amount of businesses closed down in the last few years is mad… the county town is dying slowly.. main street is dead…lose of 40 jobs this weekend with a closure of a hotel..broadband service outside of castlebar is direr…3 miles from town centre n the max speed is 2meg some don’t even get this.. the hospital is over crowded….I can only speak about my own town which is kennys town n her has done nothing in his time in power ..only recovery I seen is the the cities..cause castlebar and mayo ain’t seen it.. then he has the cheek to call his own people whingers… next time I meet him at Islandeady mass I’ll tell him what’s what… sure what does he care he has his new house built in kerry…
Only all Ireland Mayo will win
That’s the way to loose voters I am not a whinger Mr Kenny
Kenny copying hitlers rallies in 36 he looked stupid on rte news tonight
#FGLeaderchairmanMayo telling his constituents to stop whinging. If they were on his €3,000 a week salary they would not need to ‘whinge’ as he so eloquently put it. I take it he was not an English teacher by his crude turn of phrase.
I have a strong feeling that Chancellor Kenny will regret making those comments,which are typical of the arrogance of FG and the Liebour party.
Does he think like Bertie that people in despair should commit suicide. Shame on him.
Edna – All Ireland Champion Village Idiot!
Does he ever think WHY they were whinging? This man is so out of touch with the real world its a joke.
Still after insulting his own neighbours they will vote to keep him in .qhats the odds on that
‘Maintain progress in our economy’ – Well if the same progress us naintained the working class will continue to receive crumbs from the FG table. How often have you heard Enda talk of PEOPLE. He knows or cares little about the people who have had their fill of austerity. Its all about business – The Economy.
This may have been asked earlier but does this count as a long awaited all Ireland for mayo? Or more a county championship?
We need to get real here. The economy is as good as it could possibly be given where we were. I think Enda Kenny was insensitive and shouldn’t have said what he did.
However, the economy is doing much better. It’s all very well to vote with anger but it scares the hell out of me at the thought of SF and a bunch of loopy independents running this country.
Imagine the Healy Raes holding the balance of power.
They would be building sky scrapers in south Kerry.
Be afraid be very afraid.
Be afraid, be very afraid. Have a look at the Sunday Business Post – tons of repossessions and ‘fire sales ‘ to the vulture funds coming to a venue near you. Get privatising, quick
So why are FG struggling to sell that message Tom?
They are selling that message to get re elected. However, that doesn’t mean it’s not true.
Imagine Noonan selling off state assets at less than half price and wasting over a billion euros on Irish Water, this government is at best incompetent and at worst corrupt.
Irelands economy rises and falls on the world economy.. If US or Britain hit the skids so do we, simple. Currency value, interest rates etc. are not in our control. Our budget deficit is controlled by EU. So tell me what were the brilliant imaginative policies from FG/LAB that brought a recovery ? Other than doing what they were told ??
Why, should there only be buildings in Dublin??
That is called Democracy
Tom no, not outside Dublin…
But they aren’t selling that message. Keep the recovery going is a catch phrase and was the main message. The electorate weren’t buying it though, Mostly now you hear that FF wrecked the country and SF will wreck it . Selling fear and perception. And keeping the leadership as low key as possible. The gene pool is weak,
No Tom, what it means is misrepresenting what is happening to put the best possible face on the government and to ignore anything that would undermine this. Standard operating procedure for Irish governments. An example (just one), FG and Labour maintain that the reduction in Troika bailout fund interest rate was a negotiating success with the European Commission for them. The truth (confirmed repeatedly in the Irish mainstream media itself) was that the Greek situation incurred that interest rate decrease and Ireland automatically benefited. No E.C. source has ever backed up FG/Labour on their claims and FG/Labour have never produced any E.C. document to verify their claim. FF would have made the same claims (and they were introducing water charges at a higher rate than FG/Labour in the available outline of their 5 year plan in 2010 which I and every person working in Revenue received a copy of).
With all the frothing at the mouth going on here today I will, as a floating voter, make a prediction that FG will be the largest party after this election with Enda Kenny as Taoiseach. The simple fact is the majority of working people and those that depend on their taxes know that their jobs/incomes will be protected under FG policy. It’s exactly like the Scottish referendum went…business and jobs trumped everything else. Right the country is not in an ideal place and is threatened by external economic downturns but our sacrifices have dragged us from the disastrous FF legacy….and just before I start the negative thumb dial flying…’Keep the recovery going!’
Some prediction that…! The dogs on the street know FG will be “biggest party” if Enda is leader then it goes without saying he will be Taoiseach. I predict it will rain at least once this week oh look at me I’m great.
Bet you mystic Meg is bricking it.
I was amazed when I actually heard this comment this morning. Does Enda Kenny really believe he’s the Messiah, yes we all moan at this Government, we are entitled because we have been through a tough period for the past 7 years or so. Maybe he forgets, FF & Labour picked up a huge amount of FF voters at the last elections, votes that were borrowed from FF. Personally I believe that Enda Kenny is more of a Dictator than a Leader of our country, he’d have been better to take the criticism & just button his lip & just try & get to next Friday where it all matters. Has he done damage to his party for his silly reaction, I’m sure we’ll all find out next week!
I reckon Joan has it wrapped up next teashock!!
See who’s WINGING next week after d election. .. horrible little man—– mean mouse
This demonstrates that he is a proper politican in that he is obviously more interested in making decisions to benefit the whole country than trying to be populist in his own constituency. Why should castlebar benefit any more than any other town just because the taoiseach comes from there?. We saw where that carry on got us after 14 years of Bertie and Co. All looking after their own patch to the detriment of rest. He’s correct about the whingers although for his own sake he’s better off not to have said it openly. He’s taoiseach of Ireland not Castlebar. Gone up in my estimation if anything.
He has attacked the principal of free speech and democracy, he has attacked people by passing the buck of poverty and unemployment onto them rather than at the governments doorstep.
One minute he is saying that the government is creating jobs which in reality it is the markets that do but then saying if you don’t have a job etc then it is not the governments fault.
If your unemployed and complaining about it then your a whinger, it seems your a whinger if your sexually assaulted, homeless, unemployed, dying on a trolly, been flooded, a victim of crime, etc etc…
If the government has done nothing for you then he is saying that if you complain about that then your a whinger, I think that is anyone outside Dublin?
He can’t dictate to people because his government were not up to the task as it is a bad crafts person who blames his tools and it is a bad political leader who blames the citizens / voters. If he is not fit for the job step down and let someone who is fit enough take his place…
And the person fit to take his place and sort out all of these problems is ……?
To quote one our greatest dramatists, our Dear Leader, despite the best efforts of the spin doctors, appears now to be “imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the lanscape of fact”.
Defining moments of #ge16, when the counting is done attention will turn to the blunders made by the current coalition. How could this government loose the election? My opinion is their arrogance and disconnect from the people on the street makes it extremely difficult to consider a first preference not to mind second or third for the current government.
Kenny has discovered a new way of canvassing. Insult the people you want to vote for you. He’s good at that. It’s really the only talent the little weasel has
I’m no fan of ‘Inda’, but at least he didn’t tell them to go off and commit suicide, like a 3 time Taoiseach did.
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