CITIZEN’S MANIFESTO 2011

Why I will not vote for either Fianna Fáil or The Green Party

1. Fianna Fáil is the most corrupt party in the history of this state. It has turned our republic into a mar-
ketplace where everything is for sale, including public office. You will not buy my vote.
2. Fianna Fáil is a right-wing party that has consistently favoured its rich friends and has turned The
People into The Customers of their own republic. I am a citizen not a customer and I will never vote
for a right wing party.
3. Fianna Fáil, together with its subaltern allies in The Greens, have produced a budget that will crucify
the poor, the sick, the disabled, but will make the rich richer. The country despises you for that, and so
do I. I will only vote for a party that favours the redistribution of wealth.
4. Fianna Fáil has been responsible for the sell-off of most our state assets, including Telecom, Aer Lin-
gus, our fishing grounds and our oil and gas reserves. Time alone has prevented you from selling eve-
rything to your cronies on the cheap. I will never vote for a party that advocates the selling of state
assets.
5. For purely part-political gain, Fianna Fáil has driven the continuous attack on public services and pub-
lic servants. I will never vote for a party that is anti-public service.
6. Fianna Fáil toadied to the Bush regime and permitted young men and women to be transported to tor-
ture through Irish airports, as well as allowing invasion and occupation troops to pass through Shan-
non to an illegal war. Not out of cowardice alone did you do this, but also because you have a craven
desire to be liked by rich Americans. I will only vote for parties that will end the Shannon military
stopover.
7. Fianna Fáil bankrupted the state by stupid economics, in particular by the bank bailout. Despite the
intelligence your supporters in the media credit you with, the rest of the world thinks you’re stupid,
and so do I.
8. Fianna Fáil wasted the surplus that you gained by making your friends rich, so that when you had
made the country bankrupt again, as you had done so often before, there was nothing left. Now you
want the poor to pay for the cupidity, stupidity and corruption of your friends.
9. Fianna Fáil has built roads instead of public transport, ignored disabled access to public buildings,
made it more costly to get on and off the island and to move around inside it.
10. Fianna Fáil has presided over the gradual destruction of what we have of a public health system, and
you are allowing your friends to build private hospitals on public land. I will never vote for a party
that favours a private health system.
11. Fianna Fáil has encouraged racism as a despicable policy to garner votes.
12. The Green Party knew full-well that all of this was true and entered government with Fianna Fáil, and
kept them in power because they themselves craved power. I will never again vote for the Green
Party.