Election Rant

First off - the results (outgoing seats in brackets)
FF 78 (80)
FG 51 (32)
Lab 20 (21)
PD 2 (8)
GP 6 (6)
SF 4 (5)
Oth 5 (14) - The others are Bev Cooper Flynn (FF), Jackie Healy-Rae (FF), That twat Lowrey (FG) and two old style Reds: Anto Gregory and some bloke called Finian.

Basically with 41% of the votes FF are back in.
Why do we hate FF? Apart from being bent as a three bob note, their only core value is staying in office. When there for the last zillion years they have been very good to their mates/backers the builders, and pissed away the boom. School class sizes are the same as they were 40 years ago when we wore short pants and wellies and fecked horse shite at each other in the yard. My kids will have to live in Meath or Cavan and drive for 4 hours a day to get to work and back...
Why does it take 2 hours to get to work? Because the National Spatial Strategy is a joke. Every town in Ireland is either a "gateway" or a"hub" so the local FF TD can claim he got something. Meanwhile planning is up the left, in spite of the joke spatial "strategy" every village in Cavan now has a massive housing estate stuck on the side. Here is a good example of this sort of thing, its from a couple of years back.
All this is well known.
The reason is that FF stands for nothing, and just gives in to every vested interest they encounter. Viz the public service unions and their infamous benchmarking, publicans, the IFA.
Why are the bogs in the centre of Ireland being destroyed and harvested uneconomically for peat? Because FF won't take on the ESB unions.

Who are these 41% of people? Plumbers, apparently. I also blame old people. And the core FF supporters, nutters whose grandads were among the 10,000 people in the GPO and who fought for the irregulars. And anyone they can arrange day release for out of Homes for the Bewlidered. No one's ever met anyone who owns up to voting FF - but unless we can get Jimmy Carter to supervise the elections and prove otherwise, we have to assume the results are fair. Aside of course from the dead people who vote and guys with multiple addresses.

So why did the Rainbow lose? First reason is Inda Kenny. Gobshite. Bertie made shit of him in the debate but we were afraid to admit it, even to ourselves. Inda never got a glove on Bertie. Anyway what do FG stand for? Big famers. And they too are up to their neck in dodgy planning. FF and FG have always block voted on re-zoning. We all know they'd be every bit as bad as FF given the chance. Worse, they are a law and order party: 2,000 more cops and tougher sentences! We don't need more cops, we can't keep an eye on the feckers we have.

As for Labour - Pat Smartarse has to go. They need a new, good looking, bright, young, media-savvy leader not some jaded 60's UCD lefty.

The only good thing about the election is that the awful McTool is gone and the Shinners slipped up (but they'll be back... they haven't gone away you know). With any luck the Greens will jump in with Bertie and we can at least save Tara!