general election vote

[Prickly]

I can't 'not vote' - it's wrong. But when I look at the list I can't see anyone I'd want to vote for - their all useless, or worse.
Something has got to change.
I'll have to defer my vote on this poll until that change happens. (Not holding my breath!)

[espensen]

If anyone does NOT vote, they lose the right to complain.

[luther]

If anyone does NOT vote, they lose the right to complain.

That will..............

[carlos marvado]

If anyone does NOT vote, they lose the right to complain.

In some countries you are obliged to vote by law and you get fined if you don't vote.

Now at the time of the European Parliament elections last year, the total electorate in the Republic was 3,199,289. On the basis of that figure, if say 65% voted in a general election, then some 1,120,000 approx. would have not been crossed out at the nations polling stations as having registered to collect a ballot paper. Some of those will obviously have a good reason for not showing to vote e.g. were abroad at the time/not in their own constituency, in hospital etc, etc. Elections should be held on Sundays, as is the case in many European countries, so that less people have some excuse for not voting. If say half have a valid reason for not being able to vote, and this should include infirmity (those aged over say 70 or 75 should not be legally obliged to have to vote), then some 560,000 people would remain as a source of extra revenue for the state. At say a €100 fine per head, the state would take in some € 56 million, or 4 times the cost of the inoculation programme against cervical cancer for teenage girls. And the beauty is, we don't just have General elections, we also have elections to the European Parliament/Local Government elections (held on the same day), Presidential Elections, Referendums. So instead of taxing the public sector workers or the private sector workers, let's go after the lazy apolitical couch potatoes and fine our way out of this recession.

Hey Westie, did that rant wake you Brother?

[whiteknight111]

There should be an option there for "will have emigrated by the time the next election comes around" because that's what will happen me more than likely.
For the foreseeable future, there isn't going to be a government in this country that isn't led by either FF or FG and these parties are more or less the same. I voted Green the last time around, but then they jumped into bed with FF and have lost their way and their principles. What we badly need is a radical left wing government that will tax the shit out of the rich, put manners on the multinationals and give the two fingers to the bureaucrats in Brussels. Who's the fucking Nazi that's decided to vote for the Immigration Control Platform?

here we go again?
Another bolshevik?
Whats you line of work?
Properly lost your job cause your lazy, most commies I meet in the workplace are lazy and incompetent.
and seem to have a chip on their shoulder with they boss. Anyone else notice this?
Where you going to emigrate. I hear they need mass grave diggers in North Korea.
Radical left is the last thing need???????????????

Please explain how the ICP is the same as 1930s National socailism in Germany
Your "leaders" won't debate immigration openly, the media won't report the facts and now according to the "radical left" We don't have a vote against and if we do we are NAZIS.
The "radical left" has killed far more people than Facism which was only a reaction to the rise
of the communism anyway.

[10inchesandcounting]

The problem nowadays is that politicians ( in any country) are not accountable for their actions.
Some might say that they are, like being voted out of office if they screw up,but what kind of a disciplinary action is this, at worst they retire with a life time pension even if they serve only one term , and at best they will find their way to a different position(while keeping their past pension and benefit), and the orgy goes on.
Does any one get that in the private sector?,except bankers ....
For everybody else once you are fired, you're history, and kiss bonuses,benefits,and all the rest good bye.

[John Shaft]

here we go again?
Another bolshevik?
Whats you line of work?
Properly lost your job cause your lazy, most commies I meet in the workplace are lazy and incompetent.
and seem to have a chip on their shoulder with they boss. Anyone else notice this?
Where you going to emigrate. I hear they need mass grave diggers in North Korea.
Radical left is the last thing need???????????????

Please explain how the ICP is the same as 1930s National socailism in Germany
Your "leaders" won't debate immigration openly, the media won't report the facts and now according to the "radical left" We don't have a vote against and if we do we are NAZIS.
The "radical left" has killed far more people than Facism which was only a reaction to the rise
of the communism anyway.

Good man, when all else fails resort to personal insults and mudslinging. You don't have a clue who I am or what I do so quit speculating, but I can assure you that I am far from lazy and more than competent in my career. But of course if I'm unemployed and have left-wing views I must be a good-for-nothing sod. That the same kind of lazy stereotyping that the ICP engages in when talking about foreigners. Ditto for the Nazis and the Jews.

You need to open up your eyes and take a look at what's been happening in this country for the last fifteen years. Massive tax breaks for the wealthy property speculators, multinationals and business owners thanks to ten years of FF and the PDs. Then when the whole thing goes belly-up, it the ordinary Joe who has to pick up the tab through NAMA while the rich guys like Johnny Ronan and sundry multinationals bail out of the country. The government could have scrapped €700m worth of tax breaks in the last budget, but chose to hit ordinary people with cuts in basic services instead.

Throw up the 'facts' about immigration as you see them and I'll gladly debate you on this issue. You might want to run a spell check on your post first.

[Westsidex]

I can't 'not vote' - it's wrong. But when I look at the list I can't see anyone I'd want to vote for - their all useless, or worse.
Something has got to change.
I'll have to defer my vote on this poll until that change happens. (Not holding my breath!)

Its no more wrong than voting for an imaginary democracy is it?

Democracy is long dead here,
Westside.

[T_Tronic]

Numbers wise, how much of a majority does the govt hold now as regards seats?

77 FF 51 FG 20 Lab 6 Gr 4 SF 2 PD 6 oth
41.6% 27.3% 10.1% 4.7% 6.9% 2.7% 6.7%

[carlos marvado]

Good man, when all else fails resort to personal insults and mudslinging. You don't have a clue who I am or what I do so quit speculating, but I can assure you that I am far from lazy and more than competent in my career. But of course if I'm unemployed and have left-wing views I must be a good-for-nothing sod. That the same kind of lazy stereotyping that the ICP engages in when talking about foreigners. Ditto for the Nazis and the Jews.

You need to open up your eyes and take a look at what's been happening in this country for the last fifteen years. Massive tax breaks for the wealthy property speculators, multinationals and business owners thanks to ten years of FF and the PDs. Then when the whole thing goes belly-up, it the ordinary Joe who has to pick up the tab through NAMA while the rich guys like Johnny Ronan and sundry multinationals bail out of the country. The government could have scrapped €700m worth of tax breaks in the last budget, but chose to hit ordinary people with cuts in basic services instead.

Throw up the 'facts' about immigration as you see them and I'll gladly debate you on this issue. You might want to run a spell check on your post first.

Spot on. Just watched Primetime tonight. We now have the zombie hotels to join the zombie banks, the zombie developers and the zombie government. I nearly forgot to mention the zombie church. Bob Geldof got it wrong.......we're not a banana republic, we're a zombie nation.