Poll highlights the short term memory of the Irish electorate!
This weekend’s opinion poll in the Sunday Business Post has seen Fianna Fáil gain 4% support since the previous poll which was taken before the budget. Fine Gael and Sinn Féin have loss 2% each.
What has Fianna Fáil done in the past few weeks to deserve 4% of the electorate swinging their way?
Well………nothing!
Unless you’re an alcoholic or a buyer of a new ’10 car you’ve no reason to change your vote to Fianna Fáil. And I doubt those two groups make up 4% of the electorate!
If anything there should be a drop in support for Fianna Fáil. They imposed a budget which hit the lowest paid in the public service and those on social welfare. Surely there were some votes to be lost from those two groups. Many of those votes were lost from previous budgets but this budget hit families by reducing child benefit and by imposing a carbon levy on fuels. This has impacted everyone and everyone is worse off because of the budget.
If people feel that they escaped the worse in budget ’10 then they are misinformed. The fact is that, there never should have been a savage budget like budget ’10 because if Fianna Fáil weren’t in power then this economic mess never would have occurred in the first place!!
People are being led to believe that they have to play their part and considering there’s a €22bn deficit that’s a fair message to send out. However, who created the €22bn hole?!?!?!?! Fianna F***ing Fáil that’s who!
The electorate in this country suffers from memory loss. We don’t remember the bad things that our politicians do and we’ve been led like sheep to the slaughter by FF governments who bought votes by excessive budgets like budget ’07, 6 months before polling day.
The voters of Ireland need to take a good hard look at Fianna Fáil and realise that they are not the best option on offer. I’m not going to do a Fine Gael plug here. I don’t need to! Even Labour would run a better government than Fianna Fáil!