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From: snapper
Posted: 8 February 2010
Bye ...George
So what has George Lee done?

I think he was dead right leaving FG I enjoyed his interview and reasoning on the Joe Duffy show today, and he got a huge applause from the public in the phone poll, I even managed to text my support for him

was he right?

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From: ejb
Posted: 8 February 2010
Bye ...George
The reaction to his departure shows what a pack of muppets we all are.

Some media star on a huge RTE salary decides he'd like to dabble in politics. He jumps in, decides he doesn't like it and jumps out. In nine months. He doesn't even wait until the term for which he was elected for is out. He moans that no-one was listening to him but in all his media interviews including Pat Kenny tonight, he never gave one idea of his that should be listened to.

There will now need to be another by - election now this will cost the tax payer at least another 100K and what will we have achieved? Nothing.

And George will swan back into his high paid job in RTE. If he wasn't prepared to serve the people and put the hard work in he shouldn't have wasted our time and money.

But yet we praise we for wasting our time and money. What a pack of fools we are.

I hate and ashamed of this country sometimes. I wish the Germans would take it over.
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From: gizmo
Posted: 8 February 2010
Bye ...George


George Lee turned away from Fine Gael, Irish politics, and 27,000 people that voted for him.

What a complete MORON he is?. He wrecked one career and now another in less than a year.

Him and that twat ((Charlie (I haven?t made one contact in a year) Bird)) in Washington that also couldn?t hack it?


The energy from their combined Egos could generate enough power to run the lights and pumps in Ringsend sewerage Treatment plant?


George Lee expected Fine Gael to serve him rather that than George Lee to serve Fine Gael.

Noel Whelan on the Frontline said it all? He couldn?t hack it

A good communicator, a good understanding of economics and bad a politician.


Did you notice George Lee was on every program on Radio and TV last night.. Was he making up for lost time for his Camera and Microphone withdrawal Symptoms?

Given his economic views (which were never made apparent) , I hope they are better than his Career decisions.

Its back to Montrose for George? and the bird brain unlike the 400,000 unemployed?


EJB says it all in last post
If he ( George) wasn't prepared to serve the people and put the hard work in he shouldn't have wasted our time and money.






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From: snapper
Posted: 8 February 2010
Bye ...George
I have to disagree with both of you,
I think George was not willing to play the games and suck ass that comes with politics in this coountry, he has more back bone then most of them, when you look at the likes of Healy- Ray etc, working to get crumbs for their area instead of seeing the bigger picture

I agree totally with what he did, and he took unpaid leave from RTE with options and Yes he was lucky that he could.

I say goodluck to him and maybe they might shift him off to the USA and he can phone a friend when he makes one or two "S"

FG got a whole lot of votes from him he was good PR, and they knew it, hopefully his leaving will force them to reconcider their leader, they sure as hell cant get any worst !
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From: ejb
Posted: 8 February 2010
Bye ...George
If George Lee told the people that he would quite after 9 months unless he had very big influence in Irish politics i.e. being chairmen of committee wasn't enough for him there is no way 27,000 people would have voted for him.

You can't just walk into a political party and expect everyone to down tools and do everything you say. Especially when he can't articulate any of his policies himself. I watched Frontline and Vincent Browne last night and when pressed he couldn't even go into detail about his so called ideas that no-one was listening to.

In fact, he came across as a complete muppet who doesn't even know that much about econmics. I was actually quite shocked as I was a big fan of his prior to all this.

At least Roy Keane proved he had talent, George never did.

And his actions won't change anything, they just cost the tax payer more money.
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From: redser
Posted: 9 February 2010
Bye ...George
I think George Lee has done a great service to Irish politics in what he has done here.
Remember that it was FG that came to him, not the other way around. They wanted a poster boy and treated him like one. It seems obvious that that was not was was offered to him on day one.
In leaving like this he has done a couple of things at the very least ...

1. Stirred debate about the need for political reform in this country.
2. Hastened a leadership debate in FG. Even though there have been murmerings for some time, his actions will push this to the fore.

I don't think he will be going back to his old job. Doesn't it belong to Sean Whelan?

As for wasting tax payers money, if he had wished to do so he could have stayed on another few months and qualified for a pension. Or worse, just become part of the institutionalised waste that is Irish politics. He could have played the game, got his front bench seat and secured a handsome salary and pension for life. Surely that would have been the course that an egotist would have taken.

It has taken guts to walk out on two important roles in less than a year and show integrity like this. I wish him well.

As for Roy Keane, I don't know why he is involved.
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From: jack white
Posted: 9 February 2010
Bye ...George
Nobody looks good.

Lee himself looks like a complete idiot. He knew what the system was like before he ran in the by-election. There's no point in crying afterwards about the system when you were aware of it in advance. His job was to work the system, not stamp his foot and complain about it. And now the taxpayer has to shell out for another by-election because George has decided to have a tantrum. Thanks George, you fool.

Fine Gael look daft. No sympathy for them. They decided to run a celebrity candidate in the by-election to win a seat in a Dublin constituency where they normally couldn't even dream about topping the poll. It worked. But celebrities come with big egos and Fine Gael should have been prepared to give Lee a job that would massage his obviously massive ego. They weren't. They paid the price. They'll pay heavily for that when the seat comes up again.

The people who voted for George Lee look like fools too, now. They were seduced by his celebrity and they shouldn't have been. Okay, he was a celebrity economist but there are millions of different kinds of economists. Did they even know which kind Lee was? Besides, economists are great at telling you what happened to the economy in the past. But they're complete rubbish at telling you what's likely to happen in the future. They voted for Lee because he was a TV celebrity. They'd have been as well off voting for Twink or Ronan Keating. Worse, still, political parties might consider further celebrity candidates now that they've seen how easily impressed the electorate is by them. We're only a short step away from having Jordan approached by a political party because she's famous and the electorate are gullible fools.

I hope Lee doesn't get his old job back. Now that he's been revealed as useless it would be impossible to take him seriously.

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From: Donabate Hatter
Posted: 9 February 2010
Bye ...George
Having only come over from the UK in the last couple of yearsI don't really know who George Lee is and did not see him on the TV yesterday. However, I do think that his standing down is wrong, he seems to be acting like a spoilt child and was only in it for what he could get out of it. I would have had more respect for him if he had said that because of the way he has been treated he was going to cut his ties with FG and act as an independant.
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From: redser
Posted: 9 February 2010
Bye ...George
If he was in it for what he could get out of it, then surely he would have stayed. No? Or taken teh front bench seat that he was offered. No?
He was targeted by FG, offered a position with a specific role to play and they left him sitting in a corner. He cannot be compared to a regular party member who works for years to be advanced within the party. Kenny made the offer and I would say p*ssed off alot of his party members doing it. It is a major own goal for FG. They wanted their poster boy and another seat in South Dublin. They got it, but ended up with egg on their face because he didn't buy into their system. Irish politics is all about the short term moves designed to keep the Irish people ticking over (choose a poster boy to get publicity and party support), and long term moves to secure and maintain power (drag your heels around for 4 years until the next election).

The only thing he can be accused of is naivity. Naive that any of these parties might have the best welfare of the Irish people in mind. In terms of priority, their policies are all about power, not the welfare of the Irish people. I think George Lee came to a sad realisation and said sod it, I'm out.
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From: sprout
Posted: 9 February 2010
Bye ...George
I agree.Well said redser.
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