George Lee resigns from Fine Gael and as a TD

[Supermanpolitician]

You have to be succinct when presenting the facts on the doorsteps.

What are you on about?

[Supermanpolitician]

It looks bad for confidence building,however,the better stick with it, Kenny can still take control, he did good interviews during the week,better than any of his frontbench,although he did not come out well out of the parliamentary party,he should have taken command,, he is now left with everyone watching opinion polls,The Independent group will now decide his fate,

Nah. Everyone knows that their polls are made up.

Wait for a Red C or MRBI!

[Baron von Biffo]

What are you on about?

Answering your question.

[White Horse]

It just gets better and better FG have become a laughing stock and Enda a joke .

Only in your mind.

The people lining up to claim the dole are not laughing.

[Socratus O' Pericles]

Nuts on DL anyway. There is almost no transferrability between RBB and FG. RBB, if he does take a seat, will most likely take Ciaran Cuffe's seat. Flakies vote for flakies always.

Ah yes but FG need to make significant gains next time and DLR was once a stronghold, base of a former FG Taoiseach and all that
Cuffe is a dead man walking as DL goes down to a 4 seater I'm predicting Barry Andrews the most apathetic and useless Minister for Children imaginable will get a fright not from FG but the PBPA -flaky or not.

[turdsl]

[QUOTE=Supermanpolitician;2448734]Nah. Everyone knows that their polls are made up.

Wait for a Red C or MRBI![/QUOTE

Kenny should have put his foot down and got a clean commitment from his members until the General election All polls are now going to be focused on Kenny and the Media are getting ready for a hatchet job, the sad part there is nobody ready to take over, Kenny did good interviews this week, lets hope he keeps it up,

[Supermanpolitician]

Ah yes but FG need to make significant gains next time and DLR was once a stronghold, base of a former FG Taoiseach and all that
Cuffe is a dead man walking as DL goes down to a 4 seater I'm predicting Barry Andrews the most apathetic and useless Minister for Children imaginable will get a fright not from FG but the PBPA -flaky or not.

It will be two FFs and two FGs next time around. Regan will get in on FG transfers as they will only run two candidates to account for the lack of a 5th seat. Andrews and Hannafin will feed off each other as both have good support network. Barrett is safe as houses and will probably bring Regan in. The danger is that RBB or Cuffe, one might have enough transfers to support the other. If Cuffe goes first, RBB will have some hope, but if RBB goes, they won't transfer as easily to Cuffe.

[hiding behind a poster]

Is that the same Jim O' Leary that was shafted for George Lee?

No-one was shafted. If more members of FG in Dublin South had wanted O'Leary, he could have stood and won at convention.

[Socratus O' Pericles]

It will be two FFs and two FGs next time around. Regan will get in on FG transfers as they will only run two candidates to account for the lack of a 5th seat. Andrews and Hannafin will feed off each other as both have good support network. Barrett is safe as houses and will probably bring Regan in. The danger is that RBB or Cuffe, one might have enough transfers to support the other. If Cuffe goes first, RBB will have some hope, but if RBB goes, they won't transfer as easily to Cuffe.

Totally wrong Gilmore will hack up and possibly get a quta and a half

[hiding behind a poster]

FF may counter with a promise that the only sure way to keep Kenny out of the Taoiseach's office is to vote for them.

No, they won't use that line, as it'd focus attention on Cowen, which they don't want either.