1. Fine Gael
2. Fine Gael
3. Greens

Fíanna Fáil have become too arrogant, just look at their attitude to “Bertiegate”. Exit polls are saying now that they’re winning. Wonder how smug they’ll get over the next 5 years? I also don’t agree with their socially conservative stances, and their horrific attitude to the rural broadband scheme, which is annoying for me since I live in a rural area and slow dial up connections don’t help anything.

Fine Gael provided a change. Enda Kenny is inexperienced, but the reasoning of not voting for him because of this is simply moronic. If that’s the way people are going to vote, FF will be in power forever. While it’s looking unlikely right now, FG could brought something new to government.

Labour… could go either way. I’m not too sure about them.

Greens, same argument was used with the Greens as with Enda Kenny. All parties were inexperienced when they first started out. The “inexperience” mentality is the reason our party system is so hopelessly bad.

Sinn Fein…. no.

Progressive Democrats: McDowell urged potential Fine Gael voters
yesterday to switch their votes to the PDs to keep left-wing governments out of power. That’s what annoys me about McDowell. While other politicians try to bargain and convince you that their way is right, McDowell seems to have it in his head that everyone thinks the same way as him and will therefore share his worries about a left wing government. I agree with Brian on the social issues. I highly doubt they’re going to be in the next government. They’re near-implosion.

I’m glad I found an outlet for all that ranting.

Could be wrong, though.

Even liberal Labour had issues up to recently with full equality in Civil Unions with their junior leader telling gay people something that smacked of “be grateful with what you get but anything near marriage, no, sorry, now is not the time.”

The sad fact is that Sinn Fein were the only party to object when Mary Hannafin or was it that other Mary specifically banned samesex marriage for the Marriage registrations bill a few short years ago. That was the first time samesex marriage was mentioned in a law and it was to ban it.

FF and Martin are useless. Martin showed his true colours and attitude at the Oireachtas committee investigation into the nursing home scam. He had my respect til then.

Coveney is dull and dumb according to FG sources themselves. Moved to Europe to get him off the front bench. Got the looks but not the neurons. But then they replaced him with Bernard Durkan. Frank Spencer of politics. Clune’s ability in Cork City Council says enough not to get my vote. Lynch or Boyle for me. But Labour would be more complicit in a Govt with FF than the Greens. PDs no chance but even if I were, the fact that McDowell wasn’t allowed by Tom bloody Parlon to quit the coalition says a lot for the man and the party.

Anthony – lol.

2) Stephen Lynch. Labour seem like friendly soft core commies. Wouldn’t like them to have too much power though otherwise we’d be making shoes for export and rationing potatoes.

3) Simon Covney. Was going to give him my number one because he gave me a lift home in the rain once but that seems trivial and also i’m confident enough he’ll get in without my number 1.

And martin? I vote him most likely to have a sex scandal involving a teenage boy.

Pure sleeze.

In case you’re interested: Coveney and Boyle voted in favour, Martin against (but he gets a pass because he seems relatively competent)

Cian…?