Biffo Cowen

[POL]

Everytime I see him in the Dail on the news he acting like an ignorant prick. Roaring across and losing the head at the likes of Enda Kenny. I think its fair to say he has been exposed.

[Lamps]

He's a bluffer of the highest order. If Enda Kenny is getting you rattled you know your time is up

[Jim Comic]

Everytime I see him in the Dail on the news he acting like an ignorant prick. Roaring across and losing the head at the likes of Enda Kenny. I think its fair to say he has been exposed.


he's been totally unimpressive so far

[Eoin]

You're not wrong lads. Its a sad day for Ireland when enda kenny is looking like a better alternative to the current taoiseach.

[Langer Dan]

Brian Cowen-the Ronan O'Gara of the political world.

http://www.irishtimes.com/homepage/images/1226408634936.jpg

[VzN]

With a face like that you can't even start to feel sympathy for him. Completely useless oaf.

[Poison]

Brian Cowen is a B.I.F.F.O..

The site of the enormous headed monster on my beautiful television makes me ill..

[markinmanc]

Next election they'll offer to pay everyone's mortages and win a landslide victory.

[VzN]

Wouldn't surprise me.

[The Zurich Connection]

You're not wrong lads. Its a sad day for Ireland when enda kenny is looking like a better alternative to the current taoiseach.


Enda Kenny would have been better than any taoiseach we've had in the last 20 years.

[Dowtcha Boyee]

Ian Paisly was right on the button and he was a pretty boy then by comparison. Be careful what you say - the government is watching our every keystroke.

[bugsy]

With a face like that you can't even start to feel sympathy for him. Completely useless oaf.


Hes a ride!

[the puerto rican feen]

Enda Kenny would have been better than any taoiseach we've had in the last 20 years.

heh heh heh

wum

[Arcadia]

Anywhere I can gett a plaaaate of chips around here ???

[Shandon Bell]

Enda Kenny would have been better than any taoiseach we've had in the last 20 years.

I think Edna Kenny is honest but incompetent. What bothers me about him is that while he is good at pointing out the deficiencies of the Government he is very slow to offer alternative solutions. I think he should be by-passed and Richard Burton should step up. He is a highly articulate and intelligent man, I think he'd make a great Taoiseach.

[LittleBrownFish]

Kenny's a dryballs. I reckon he'd be a good leader, but he'd be as boring as all hell.

[Gaterade]

I thought Cowen would have performed better, at least Bertie was cute enought to get out when he did

[Actin The Sham]

Kenny must be the worst ever leader of an opposition. His political enemies are on the floor and his approval rating dropped by 1%.

They should make Simon Coveney leader. Or that nice Lucinda Creighton, Richard Bruton should stay in finance.


They need somebody with charisma in charge and somebody who knows what he or she is doing in the department of finance.

[Arcadia]

Kenny must be the worst ever leader of an opposition. His political enemies are on the floor and his approval rating dropped by 1%.

They should make Simon Coveney leader. Or that nice Lucinda Creighton, Richard Bruton should stay in finance.


They need somebody with charisma in charge and somebody who knows what he or she is doing in the department of finance.

Drop Kenny - Put Bruton or Coveney in charge,new party logo and makeover + PR and a fair wind they would hold the reigns.

Its there for the taking.

[Lamps]

Kenny must be the worst ever leader of an opposition. His political enemies are on the floor and his approval rating dropped by 1%.

They should make Simon Coveney leader. Or that nice Lucinda Creighton, Richard Bruton should stay in finance.


They need somebody with charisma in charge and somebody who knows what he or she is doing in the department of finance.

Simon Coveney has less charisma than Enda Kenny and thats saying something

[Actin The Sham]

Simon Coveney has less charisma than Enda Kenny and thats saying something

Yeah, but he's from Cork.

;)

[Lamps]

How about New Fine Gael - The third way

[Eoin]

Kenny must be the worst ever leader of an opposition. His political enemies are on the floor and his approval rating dropped by 1%.

They should make Simon Coveney leader. Or that nice Lucinda Creighton, Richard Bruton should stay in finance.


They need somebody with charisma in charge and somebody who knows what he or she is doing in the department of finance.

FG have a history of choosing very unlikeable people as leaders. Michael Noonan for god sake!

Enda has to go before FG can become a decent alternative.

[Lamps]

Yeah, but he's from Cork.

;)

He didn't even go to school here.

He more or less ignores his constituency, never mind his county, and an idiot newbie sleveen like Michael McGrath trounced him in his own backyard.

Enda Kenny is hopeless but next to Coveney he's like JFK

[Actin The Sham]

He didn't even go to school here.

He more or less ignores his constituency, never mind his county, and an idiot newbie sleveen like Michael McGrath trounced him in his own backyard.

Enda Kenny is hopeless but next to Coveney he's like JFK

What about Bernard Allen so? Or Jerry Buttimer? Or maybe that Deasy fella from Waterford?

[Lamps]

What about Bernard Allen so? Or Jerry Buttimer? Or maybe that Deasy fella from Waterford?

There's a young fella from Turners Cross showing real potential that'll be running in Cork South Central corpo elections next year. Can't quite remember his name. Seems like a good guy and has a bit of fire in him.

At the TD level there is nothing in Cork for FG. They need new blood

[ANVIL]

There's a young fella from Turners Cross showing real potential that'll be running in Cork South Central corpo elections next year. Can't quite remember his name. Seems like a good guy and has a bit of fire in him.

At the TD level there is nothing in Cork for FG. They need new blood



And what about yer man in the wheelchair.
Anyone in that condition who can shimmy up a lamp-post to put up all those election posters has got to be worth a vote in my book !

[shammy feen]

They should make Simon Coveney leader.

Nah....Leo Varadker or that blonde wan from the midlands.

[Chelsea Hotel #2]

I think Edna Kenny is honest but incompetent. What bothers me about him is that while he is good at pointing out the deficiencies of the Government he is very slow to offer alternative solutions. I think he should be by-passed and Richard Burton should step up. He is a highly articulate and intelligent man, I think he'd make a great Taoiseach.

This Guy?

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f257/tallulahbankhead/movie%20stars/richardburton.jpg

[Shandon Bell]

This Guy?

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f257/tallulahbankhead/movie%20stars/richardburton.jpg

I don't see why not. He would have been a cool mofo of a Taoiseach.

[jd26]

As regards the Fine Gael TDs in Cork and their potential

Bernard Allen - His day has passed

Deirdre Clune - Junior Ministerial potential at best. Despite what some people say, she's bright enough, but she is shockingly bad at relating to people

Simon Coveney - Much overhyped. But yet he could fluke it. If Kenny went before the next election and Bruton didn't stand, he could end up as party leader at just the right time. I wouldn't be too impressed by his competency

Michael Creed - To my mind, he has more potential than Coveney and would probably be spoken of as a future party leader if he hadn't been out of the Dail from 2002 to 2007 because of bad party vote management and the collapse of the FG vote in 2002.

Jim O'Keeffe - Like Bernard Allen, another who would have achieved something if FG had been in power 5-10 years ago. But they weren't and it's too late now.

PJ Sheehan - Not so much a has been as a never would have been. Good at shoring up the constituency vote, but that's about it.

David Stanton - Very much under-rated. But as several FG frontbenchers would have to make way for Labour ministers, there's no way he could be a minister soon. Would probably get a junior ministerial post and if he performs to his abilities could end up raised to cabinet at some point.

I don't know how much potential there is in the other parties.

Of the Labour TDs, only Ciaran Lynch impresses. Sean Sherlock is young and has a good reputation in the Labour Party, but he needs to show more of that to the public to retain his seat, never mind have some form of political career.

In Fianna Fail, most TDs are either already ministers or too old for consideration now. Only Michael McGrath and Michael Moynihan are open for discussion. After 11 years in the Dail, Moynihan should have achieved more if he was going to go anywhere in the long run. McGrath does seem ambitious, but his reputation is mud after all the phoney pre-election promises. He'll still get re-elected, so he has a chance to rebuild that. But I don't expect to see him at the top table in the next 10 years.

[Murdock]

I felt the same way when BIFFO took over as when Stan took the Ireland job, i.e. this guy's going to be a fucking disaster. I mean he has achieved sweet fuck all of substance in his entire career despite having stints in the most powerful positions in the land. He's only in politics because of nepotism. His only apparent "talent" is shouting and roaring at the opposition, which endears him to the party faithful. The previous guy was even worse (and corrupt to boot) though.

People take the piss out of Enda Kenny and I'm not his or FG's biggest fan, but he has one quality that Ahern (or most FF politicians) didn't have a trace of - honesty. His front bench seems far superior to Cowen's (although so would a pack of retarded shaved chimps) and he seems determined to reform the public service.
Kenny isn't the smoothest of operators and is a charisma vacuum, but those are fairly unimportant qualities. I think a major factor that's acting as a mental block for people in seeing him as Taoiseach is the fact that he's a culchie.