Trevor spills Enda's beans

[kerrynorth]

On Radio 1 Trevor Sargent has just stated that he mentioned the FG approach to the SF leader in the House whose office is close to his in the corridors in LH. Trevor said that SF rejected the approach as they knew where to get them if they wanted to talk.

[Swift]

I used to respect Trevor Sargent- he is caught out by his own statements on the Dail record, unless of course he was telling porkies in the Dail..

Personally I like the Ceann Comhairles 2nd contribution in the excerpt below:

"Deputy Trevor Sargent: If Fine Gael wanted to be in Government it would have gone to Sinn Féin and asked it to do business. Fine Gael does not want to be in Government.


An Ceann Comhairle: I call Deputy Bruton.


Deputy Trevor Sargent: Fine Gael cannot take being in government and that is why the party is in Opposition.


An Ceann Comhairle: The Deputy’s time has expired. "

The Green's slogan for the last GE was "It's time" - by the time this Dail debate took place their time had expired - they are now on borrowed time- they all lied to their constituents by saying they wouldnt support Fianna Fail. Eamon Ryan looked me in the eye on my own doorstep and said he wouldnt support Fianna Fail in government.
If his local councillor has the guts to call to my house while i was there I would tell him exactly where to shove his freebie pencil...

Trevor is now using Paul "the mad fella" Gogarty to back him up on this non-story..

When people go to the polls on Friday- it will be the incompetence and poor performance of this government (FF + GREENS) that they will vote on... Roll on Saturday morning!!!!

[Malbekh]

On Radio 1 Trevor Sargent has just stated that he mentioned the FG approach to the SF leader in the House whose office is close to his in the corridors in LH. Trevor said that SF rejected the approach as they knew where to get them if they wanted to talk.

Will be very interesting to see how SF will play this. So many targets.....

[culbair]

This is very strange, when this current patchwork government was formed, Kenny was in the Dail giving some abuse to the Greens for becoming turncoats, and Sargent stood up and said that the SF option was on the table for Kenny, but Kenny refused it, so, was Sargent telling porkies in the Dail, or is he telling porkies now?

You are correct. The Greens have become FFs mudguard. The Mail that bastion of extreme right wing Tories has declared war on FG. Interesting to see the Greens being manipulated by right wing Tories. How times have changed. John Lee on Vincent Browne last night made a snide remark re Frank Flannery and FG transfers. Seems the Extreme Right Wing Mail wishes to nuke FG.

[True Democrat]

I used to respect Trevor Sargent- he is caught out by his own statements on the Dail record, unless of course he was telling porkies in the Dail..

Personally I like the Ceann Comhairles 2nd contribution in the excerpt below:

"Deputy Trevor Sargent: If Fine Gael wanted to be in Government it would have gone to Sinn Féin and asked it to do business. Fine Gael does not want to be in Government.


An Ceann Comhairle: I call Deputy Bruton.


Deputy Trevor Sargent: Fine Gael cannot take being in government and that is why the party is in Opposition.


An Ceann Comhairle: The Deputy’s time has expired. "

The Green's slogan for the last GE was "It's time" - by the time this Dail debate took place their time had expired - they are now on borrowed time- they all lied to their constituents by saying they wouldnt support Fianna Fail. Eamon Ryan looked me in the eye on my own doorstep and said he wouldnt support Fianna Fail in government.
If his local councillor has the guts to call to my house while i was there I would tell him exactly where to shove his freebie pencil...

Trevor is now using Paul "the mad fella" Gogarty to back him up on this non-story..

When people go to the polls on Friday- it will be the incompetence and poor performance of this government (FF + GREENS) that they will vote on... Roll on Saturday morning!!!!

Paul "the mad fella" Gogarty described by Irish Times correspondence as brutally honest to a fault. So mad perhaps, but equally honest.

[True Democrat]

The correspondent in question btw was Harry McGee.

[LDF]

Apparantly clever Trevor is doing a press conference shortly.

Well he should get a bigger audience than his last press conference which I believe was on the nutritional benefits of the organic carrott.

[Malbekh]

You are correct. The Greens have become FFs mudguard. The Mail that bastion of extreme right wing Tories has declared war on FG. Interesting to see the Greens being manipulated by right wing Tories. How times have changed. John Lee on Vincent Browne last night made a snide remark re Frank Flannery and FG transfers. Seems the Extreme Right Wing Mail wishes tio nuke FG.

They got a good scoop with the Flannery article (which shocked me as I was expecting some rant about a FF minister), and now they just want to milk it as much as possible.

Happily for them, everyone is obliging.

Somewhere, somebody is making mwahahahah sounds

[syzygial]

This is only peripherally about Sinn Féin. It's really about Enda Kenny - his credibility and, what may be even more important, his leadership ability.

When Charlie Haughey wanted to be taoiseach in 1989, he did business with the PDs.

When Albert Reynolds wanted to be taoiseach in 1992, he did business with Labour (and left the clueless Bruton standing at the altar).

Enda Kenny wanted to be taoiseach but he didn't want to do business with Sinn Féin - like a cat who loves fish but hates getting his feet wet. So instead he asked Trevor to do the business for him. That was perhaps forgiveable - there was a slight possibility that Trevor would have been stupid enough to undertake such an errand, and that SF would have been desperate enough to for a few crumbs to negotiate through an intermediary.

But when Trevor told Kenny to go catch his own fish, he funked the challenge.

There was no lead in Enda's pencil.

And in recent days he has been distancing himself from Frank Flannery's suggestion that next time round he might just possibly have a go at trying to land the fish ...

Indeed. And if there ever had been any lead in his pencil, he'd be Taoiseach long before now and not be circling like a vulture, waiting to profit from the downfall of an unpopular leader of a more professional (as in politically effective) party, An Taoiseach.

The sooner FG recognises the folly of sticking with Kenny as leader this long, the better (for them and probably the country in general).

That' what makes Sergant say 'eeek, we're about to be trounced, had better make something up for cheap political point scoring'.

Well he's not making it up, but at least you can see that there are political points to be scored from yet another Kenny shambles.

Well, if he is telling the truth why did he sit on this until the last minute ?

That's what makes me smell a rat.

Why did he wait until now? It's called 'election politics'

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