Tadhg McMahon from @HelpCork refusing to shake @LeoVaradkar s hand today. Tadhg has seen the worst of the homeless situation first hand over the last 6 years.@gavreilly @deshocks pic.twitter.com/B6aOQI89nX
— Margaret Smith (@marsmithcork) January 21, 2020
NEW: Taoiseach confronted in Mallow by this man who says his “Tory boy” policies make him the “reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher”. pic.twitter.com/FcgVbrc8Y8
— Hugh O’Connell (@oconnellhugh) January 21, 2020
Yesterday.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on the hustings in Cork.
Seems to be going quite well.
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
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In fairness
Good.
Leo needs to stay out of Cork
And leave the Blueshirt campaign down South to Coveney, Kelly and what’s left of the Barry’s
And let the local crew deal with the Dara Murphy fall out
Jesus t’night the Fine Gael campaign doesn’t know what it’s at
And they’re the ones that called it
Madness, all the social media and PR money in the world is not worth a jot if you can’t get the bread and butter part right.
This is why I love elections.
That glorious moment when aloof politicians are confronted with the reality their advisers and PR people have been shielding them from.
There’s a strong smell of Theresa May’s doomed election campaign coming off Leo already.
It’s been a disastrous first week.
has nobody in FG pulled Leo aside and said, “when you encounter criticism or upset on the street, dont fupping smirk at them. it makes you look like a complete mickey”. enda kenny did it too. is it a FG thing?
Bertie was a smirker too, many old Labour gobsheens spring to mind also, may just be the default look of discomfort of the ruling elite.
+ Murphy
good fupp him and his empty handshake
Obvious that Leo all over social media but still a shock to discover he’s spent €1,794,678 on PR, communications and advertising in 17 months. As opposed to Enda Kenny’s €16,200 when he was in charge.
Quick Leo, dig out that photo of you putting a spoon in a dishwasher. If there was ever a chance that it could help you save some face, it’s now.
fg’s greatest liability, next to posh-boy
peak publicity disaster not as yet reached
that’ll come when he gets milkshaked
In Leo’s case skinny almond milk-shaked
again, it is remarkable how bad the man is at PR despite the carefully curated image as a slick, young doctor and the millions spent on it by FG
there comes a point beyond where you can’t PR someone’s fundamental personality traits out of it…I observe in him:
no hint of shame or guilt for his past failings
a glibness, smartarseness in his responses
demonstrated self-service (betcha when he’s trashed in this GE he’ll slide onto some major EU or Global gig, it’s already lined up, Taoiseach isn’t the apex job in his head, just watch and see)
no vocational attitude that I can see, he has no interest in Ireland (just Leo)
plug those traits above into your favourite browser and see what it answers back
how would anyone out there believe that he’s there for them, wants to help them, hm?
That’s a sound précis.
We are lucky that Boris had a decisive victory because FG would be parroting on about Brexit and sidelining hospital scandal, homelessness and truly barbaric murders . Waffling is coming home to roost for FG.
Hear hear
You are blaming FG for the “truly barbaric murders”?
Everyone is lucky Boris had a decisive victory.
If Comrade Corbyn was in No 10 now the British and by association the Irish economies would already be in deep ordure …
Fair play gents and yeah fupp him, sick of his rubbish.
“we’ve increased the disability allowance by 10 or 15 euro a week”.
There’s no difference between 10 and 15 euro for the like of Leo Varadkar.
let them eat cake.
We had a polish father hacked to death with machetes in Cork. (Unsolved). A murder in Mallow (unsolved). A homeless man decapitated (unsolved). A student dying on the street. (Unsolved). Are you suggesting FG have a good record on law and order?
I hate this “We know it’s not enough but we’re trying” party line that’s emerging now. It’s a way of at first seeming as if they’re apologetically owning up to their failures, but as we all know when confronted with their failures the current government betrays a very different feeling.
Worse still, it’s fundamentally dishonest. FG pursued very particular policies and courses of action that, apart from vested interests, actively worked against the interests of its citizenry.
And now the chickens are coming to roost.