Bertie is back :(

As I made a pre-election post about who I was going to vote for, I guess it's only right to write about the general election again. At this point, Fianna Fail are in the strongest position and may form a coalition with the PD's + Independents, or with the greens.

I was away during the election results and when I got back I was pretty suprised by what the media was saying. The media were making it sound as if Fianna Fail had walked the election and that Bertie Ahern was a genius after all. Any rational person who looks at the figures will see that Fianna Fail lost seats, Fine Gael made the biggest gains in Irish election history, and were it not for the disappointing performance of the Labour Party the alternative coalition would definitely be able to form the new government. Enda Kenny did brilliantly and its a real shame that this is not being commonly acknowledged.

Here's my thoughts on Fianna Fail and their result:

If you voted for these absolute dickheads then shame on you. You are now officially not allowed to complain about anything for the next 5 years. You voted for mediocrity, for wastage. You voted for bland, sit on the fence politics. You obviously think its ok that:

- election promises don't need to be fulfilled (2002 menifesto said metro would be completed by 2007. They havent started building it)
- our environment can be destroyed as long as Dick Roche gives permission
- that profit-driven developers, rather than urban planners, should decide where new houses should be built, with no regard to where schools, roads or clean water are.
- that local councils all over the country are corrupt and under resourced
- that there are serious questions over the personal finances of bertie ahern
- that a valuable natural resource (gas) has been given away for free to shell, and further exploration licences have been issued to them.
- rather than coming up with a realistic manifesto, it's acceptable to just come up with the biggest giveaway manifesto of all time, literally taking every tax cut offered by every other party and bundling them together like some kind of fucking selection box.

Why did the public absolutey slaughter the Progressive Democrats? I presume they were unhappy with the previous government, yet Fianna Fail, holding most of the ministries with by far the largest influence on government policy, received almost none of the blame! All I can figure is that most people are fucking idiots. Which is probably the case unfortunately!