Parlon will vote Kenny as Taoiseach

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I thought when I heard it first that it was just an urban myth but I have come across too many people who have experienced it first hand, or directly from voters.

First FG canvassers, and now FF canvassers, have been reporting over the last few days that voters in Laois-Offaly have been told by Parlon canvassers that they do not need to vote for FG to ensure the election of Enda Kenny as taoiseach. Bizarrely some PD canvassers have been telling voters that Parlon will support Kenny also!

According to what is apparently being said, people are being told that there is a real likelihood that Tom Parlon will be the only PD TD and that in that case he will vote for Kenny in the vote to nominate a taoiseach.

I dismissed it the first time I heard it, as being an urban myth. But now a number of canvassers and senior canvassing staff have been told explicitly by voters that they were told that by PDs on their doorstep. FFers have also been reporting back the strange phenomenon. It is so widespread that within all the main parties, the story has been reported back to headquarters level.

It raises two questions:

1. Are the PDs so worried for Parlon's seat that they would make such a bizarre claim on the doorsteps?

2. Do they really believe that their party is in danger of losing most if not all its seats, including Liz O'Donnell, Mary Harney and Michael McDowell?

Certainly FF and FG believe that the PDs are effectively finished, and will be lucky to hold on to two seats. Even McDowell's now looks shaky, with Harney's seen to be under major danger, and Liz O'Donnell's probably gone. The PDs organisationally say privately that things are looking bleak for the party. But are they so bleak they are willing to tell people in Laois-Offaly that Tom Parlon is likely to be the only PD left?

I though Maximus was bad but jesus

[Oldira]

[quote=The Trinity Politick]

Parlon should join FG and then he can do what he bloody likes in relation to voting for Enda. Flanagan will take that seat off that smug idiot and rightly so. It was on loan to him and now the rightful owner wants it back.

Vote FG to get FG

Who is more smug? Parlon or a party believing that they own a seat?

You know what i meant. Flanagans have held that year since Jesus was born, and people seemed pretty happy with that up until 2002[/quote:3oaob3n4]

Flanagans? The Flanagans whose patriarch was a jew hating fanitical right wing catholic? Great antecedents there alright boyo. Invoking his name is really going to gain votes for Charlie.h

[geraghd]

Campaign strategy it seems to me. He knows he wont get those vital extra transfer from FF and seeing the tide turn to FG in the constituency is looking for the FG vote.
I doubt Parlon of all people would be the only PD TD left if indeed they are left with one.

[meriwether]

You probably wouldn't know this Oldira, because I wouldn't expect you to, but the elder Flanagan went on to recant his anti-Jewry comments in later life.
You're own party can trace its lineage back to an anti-semite, cant ye?

[Supermanpolitician]

Yes, wasn't it a proud moment for our fledgling republic when our leader commiserated with the German ambassador on the death of Mr Hitler?
Just in case you numnuts haven't spotted it, Alan Shatter (a bone fide yid) is running for FG. Briscoe (a convenience yid) is no longer anywhere to be seen.