In Reply to: budget - labour party posted by Jimmy Larkins on April 07, 2009 at 19:30:45:

Fully agree- She is an embarrassingly bad speaker, sounds like a national school teacher trying to convince five year old to sit down.

I've been accused of being FG/Lab (indeed, I've been accused of being a labour TD/councillor!) on this board, but the simple fact is that if a vote came in the morning I wouldn't know what to do with it.

FF- I will never vote for FF. It only seems to encourage them. A corrupt, stupidly sly party representing the vested interests and nobody else. anyone who voted for them would want to be up on criminal charges for treason.

FG- Have actually managed to look even less competent than FF in the past 12 months- it's understandable that they don't want to inherit FF's mess, but they really look like a party that doesn't even want to get into govt. Enda hasn't landed one punch on biffo, because he hasn't bothered to throw one.

Labour- Have handled opposition better than FG but would you really want them running the country? Joan Burton as minister for finance? And the last thing we need is more powerful trade unions, in my opinion (and I'm a paying member of a trade union).

Greens- A nice upper middle class party for nice upper middle class crackpots. so removed from the reality that 90% of the people in this country operate in that they should never have gotten into government in a democracy that worked. Will be obliterated in the next election.