I have to talk about Fianna Fail some more...sorry...

I got too sleepy to finish this last night. And today I have to spend the day working on a presentation for Tuesday, so I don't have much time.

Himself's alarm went off at six am and he turned it off and went back to sleep. So I poked him in the back to wake him up and he got up and dressed and went to work without saying goodbye.

Bad move.

He is so not winning this sulk.

Anyways, back to style v substance.

The reason why everyone votes for Fianna Fail is because they are the big men. Flash. Lots of money. Big cars. Rounds for everyone in the pub. Massive tent at the Galway Races. Plenty of champagne. They turn up at your funeral and pay their respects and say all the right things and buy the lads a few drinks. They turn up at your sport's big occasions and forget to mention that they used to run people like you out of town for playing 'foreign' sports.

They constantly remind you that they are as eternal and unchanging as the rain.

People love that shit.

They hate intellectual lefties with dodgy backgrounds in big labour. Who make you feel guilty about the poor. I'm alright, Pat, why don't those single mothers keep their legs closed and get an effing job.

They hate Mayo muck savages in suits and big farmers who are always whinging for more money. Who in the hell wants some bogger from Mayo running the Dublin property scene?

They hate the sandals and bicycle brigade. Christ, they're trying to bring us all back to the Stone Age.

They like bright shiny objects and the allure of power and privilege that wafts around Fianna Fail, and they are comforted by the fact that this naked will to power comes wrapped in a shiny green flag and some bullshit about pragmatic socialism that is uttered whenever their Capo thinks it's timely.

I effing hate my country's people's political pragmatism. My only (mixed) comfort is that it is the same over here. And the NDP don't win here for the same reasons that Labour don't get any rural seats in Ireland.

Anyways, back to work. At least it's all over for a while now. I do hope that Labour don't go into government with Fianna Fail.

And one final thing, Mark Hennessey made a remark in the Irish Times this morning, about how the Taoiseach had to face 'what has to be said was aggressive questioning from the media' during the campaign.

DO YOU WANT AN EFFING MEDAL, MARK?

As I have said to him many many times in the past, that's your frickin job, Mark.