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THERE are very few things you can rely on in life – but you can always depend on Fine Gael to let you down.
If you describe yourself as working or middle class and you are going to vote for them I personally think you need your head examined.
Then again, seeing that the Irish Tories have decimated mental health services and all but destroyed the
HSE you’ll probably be waiting three years before a doc can examine it.
As you go to vote today ask yourself how one of the richest countries on Earth is in such a lamentable state with a Third World health service and Europe’s worst housing crisis.
The answer is simple and involves only two words – Fine Gael.
The reason we are living through the worst housing crisis in our history is not because the country is without the resources to build homes, it’s because of Fine Gael’s ideology.
Tory Boy Leo Varadkar and his party’s refusal to build affordable homes or what we once called council housing is straight out of the Thatcherite handbook.
Now in their eighth year in office, Fine Gael has allowed the number of homeless to more than treble and now we have more than 10,000 living in emergency accommodation.
As for the party of law and order, the country has become a gangsters’ paradise with the criminals behind the current cocaine epidemic engaged in brutal feuds for control of turf.
And Fine Gael has been pathetic when it comes to safeguarding the environment and to make up for it it is going to hammer us with huge carbon tax next Budget.
Why would any worker support a party which will not support them? FORMER Lord Mayor of Cork Des Cahill has been left “hurt” after a large election poster at his house was defaced for the second time.
The Fine Gael man had the sign in his front garden covered in gloss paint, destroying his front wall in the process.
It comes almost exactly a month after a similar attack at his house in the build up to the elections.
Councillor Cahill said: “The last occasion this happened my wife and two children travelled to my wife’s family for a week as they felt in fear.
“I have been hurt by this but it certainly will not stop me from representing the people of Cork.” ANGRY voters slammed Leo Varadkar and Eoghan Murphy over the housing crisis on the eve of the local and European elections.
In a devastating opinion poll of more than 7,000 people – conducted through irishmirror.ie –
95% had lost faith in the Taoiseach and the Housing Minister.
This matches the harsh reception politicians are getting on the doorsteps, with one Fine Gael representative admitting housing is “without doubt the No.1 issue on the campaign trail”.
One TD who has been canvassing with councillors and MEP candidates, as well as conducting her own constituency clinics, said: “[Around] 80% of all cases I’m dealing with are housing.”
Meanwhile, official homeless figures are at a record high, with the Department of Housing’s statistics showing more than 10,300 people are without a roof over their heads – almost 4,000 are children. The scandal is probably far worse as campaigners with homeless charities such as the Fr Peter Mcverry Trust and Simon Community all say the real total is closer to 20,000.
This is because Eoghan Murphy’s figures don’t include many other people in despair without a property to call their own.
These include people living with friends or family, women and children in shelters and asylum seekers in direct provision centres. Considering all of this, it should be no surprise to see the Irish Mirror’s online poll reflects deep dissatisfaction with the Government.
We asked: “Do you think the Government has failed the people of Ireland regarding the housing crisis?”
There were 7,200 votes cast, with 95% saying “Yes”.
One respondent posted: “They failed in every way... health, taxes, housing homeless people, hospitals
They failed in every way.. but made sure to line their own pockets POLL RESPONDENT YESTERDAY