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The Greens like to preach about the environment, which makes their current antics with posters particularly hypocritical.
I came across Green posters by candidates up well in advance of the legal time for postering.
Now in the last few days Deirdre de Burca posters are appearing. They left it too late and so all the main pole places were gone. So they placed them on my road so low they are practically touching the ground. At that level they are a hazard to pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. Last night I saw a driver as he pulled into a parking spot find the de Burca poster hitting the side of his car. The only way to avoid hitting the poster and park there would have involved parking a distance from the kerb, and so block up traffic. I also saw a cyclist having to swerve to avoid colliding with a bit of a de Burca that was so low part of it stuck out into a bus lane. At one spot near me there is a badly overgrown hedge which overhangs and you have to walk around to avoid getting your face hit by briars. But the route around the briars was blocked by a de Burca poster hanging only about three feet up from the bottom of the poster. I had to push it to one side to get by.
In the end I took down the poster and stuffed it in the nearest bin. I do that with any poster, including from my own party, that I think are dangerously located. I did that last week with a large SF banner that was completely obscuring a pedestrian crossing at a traffic lights. In my view it could stop a driver from seeing a pedestrian about to cross. It was on a steep hill and drivers often try to break lights. A driver and pedestrian could have collided with each unable to see the other with the banner in the way.
I have a lot of sympathy for parties putting up posters. (I have done it myself.) But as someone who almost joined the Greens once, I find the Greens' antics on postering hypocritical. If FF or FG placed posters where the Greens have been placing theirs the Greens would be on their high horse accusing them of contempt for cyclists/pedestrians/the environment. But then even weeks ago, long before it was legal to put up posters, Green local election posters appeared in my area disguised as posters advertising meetings, with stick-on notices about the meeting below a massive picture of the candidate, and the stick-on so small I could not even read them.
It is so hypocritical. Are the Greens, to borrow a famous phrase, becoming more Fianna Fáil than Fianna Fáil themselves, in the stunts they are willing to play with posters?
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Originally Posted by cactusflower
