Young Fine Gael Conference Video

[qtman]

It was funny hearing them play money money money, considering they are a cult of little rich kids themselves!

I never get tired of this old clanger!

Why not wheel out all your old doozies DOD ? Its Saturday morning after all!

- YFGers are all children of big farmers and East-Asian tea planters
- YFGers are all ultra-fascist neo-cons
- YFGers are all part of the Catholic right
- YFG is part of a massive conspiracy to create a European Federalist Superstate

I'm sure you've had a few more over the years. Maybe you could complete the list?!

Don't forget muck savages....

[KingKane]

DOD, we'll have to have a long discussion on another thread sometime if you've left SF.

[DOD]

It was funny hearing them play money money money, considering they are a cult of little rich kids themselves!

- YFGers are all children of big farmers and East-Asian tea planters
- YFGers are all ultra-fascist neo-cons
- YFGers are all part of the Catholic right
- YFG is part of a massive conspiracy to create a European Federalist Superstate

1. I never said that, with the possible exception of Leo Varadkar, I don't know any YFG members of east asian extraction.
2. I never said ye were ultra-fascist, but ye are certainly neo-conservatives.
3. Not true, as ye are not all catholics.
4. Well that one is bang on.

[pjb07]

u notice no mention of their unwavering ( ) steadfast () allies who hold their only chance of power : :

[Fnarr-Fnarr]

I was interested to see some of the candidates who were being touted as 'young'. What age is Coveney now? And Enright cant be that young.

On a wider issue, who is the youngest candidate running at the moment in the General election? We have two 25 year olds as candidates.

[Libero]

As a piece of internal morale-boosting, it's fine (considering most FGers bizarre belief in Enda Kenny as Taoiseach material)

Some of those young candidates need a gift voucher for Peter Marks.

But I liked the way they matched Michael McDowell to The Automatic tune.

[hiding behind a poster]

I was interested to see some of the candidates who were being touted as 'young'. What age is Coveney now? And Enright cant be that young.

Coveney is 34, Enright is 32. To that you can add TDs English (28), Kehoe (34), and candidates McHugh (35), Phelan (28), Browne (33), and candidates like Martin, Varadkar, Creighton (all 30 or under), Doherty (early 30s), Henry (about 30), Donohue (early 30s), Geraghty (33).

So to be fair to FG, they've got a lot of young candidates.

[hiding behind a poster]

As a piece of internal morale-boosting, it's fine (considering most FGers bizarre belief in Enda Kenny as Taoiseach material)

Seriously, what do you mean by that? What has Bertie Ahern got that Enda Kenny hasn't? Decisiveness? Leadership? Vision? I think if you're gonna make a statement like that, you've got to be able to back it up.

[Libero]

Seriously, what do you mean by that? What has Bertie Ahern got that Enda Kenny hasn't? Decisiveness? Leadership? Vision? I think if you're gonna make a statement like that, you've got to be able to back it up.

The thing is, I don't think Bertie Ahern has many of the qualities we need in a Taoiseach either. He just is Taoiseach. You don't need me to tell you how Ahern lacks decisiveness, courage, vision, etc.

To my mind (and I don't expect you agree, and I'm not trying to wind you up), Kenny is wooden and not that smart. The Clark Kent / Mayo schoolteacher image sticks (though maybe that just reflects on me watching too much West Wing). He only sounds passable when reading something prepared, and I've heard him speak a fair bit, including in the flesh.
That, and the lethargy at getting FG to master their opposition briefs and develop high-quality alternative policies.

I won't even start on what I think of YFG and youth politics in general. Many of us who were once involved in that kind of thing are mortified at what we were like.

[dermotoffice]

Those boys and girls (and i mean that literally as nopbody about the age of 10 could have been responsible for that!!) sure do like a good larf!!

AND WE IS ALL LARFING WITH SORRY AT YOU AND INDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsgX6b1DkdQ