I met a fucker on the way home the other evening coming down a steep enough hill against me. He was tipping along nicely & had a serious job to get the horse & trap stopped in front of me.
Poor fucking horse sliding to a halt.
The cunt starts waving the finger at me shouting you were coming too fast. I rolls down the window and pointed out I come up the hill the same speed every evening, he was going too fast & that if he pointed his finger at me again that he, his horse & trap wouldnât be seen on the roads again.
The cruelty these cunts put horses through is sickening. But you have flutes trying to fight for their culture & rights. In the South Tipp region alone this year I think 4 or 5 horses have been left for dead on roadsides as the cruel cunts left them to die & after running the fucking life out of them.
Sorry where is my windmilling? I am simply debunking your nonsense and here you are now pivoting over to welfare as youâve been caught talking shite again.
Welfare is an entirely different issue, which along with our Corporation tax scheme, you have windmilled on before.
Congrats to Iceland for doing that, but that does not rebuke any of the following points;
Ireland is one of the least corrupt countries in the world (factual, based on international rankings)
Ireland has anti corruption laws (you were wrong, and made an incorrect statement that they did not)
Ireland has jailed bankers (fact)
Not once did I say Ireland didnât have corruption or couldnât improve.
You are from the school that blames everything on the âelitesâ, âpoliticiansâ or the âpublic sectorâ. I look for facts and ways that we can improve. That is not to say that I donât see faults in any of those things and I point them out all the time, but people who come out with shit like âonly in Irelandâ or âbanana Republicâ need to get out more. Ireland is still one of the best countries in the world, being a crank 24/7 is a terrible way to live.
Least corrupt country according to Transparency International who accepted donations from a company convicted of bribing politicians.
In January 2015 it was reported that Transparency International (TI) accepted $3 million from the German engineering multinational Siemens, which in 2008 paid one of the largest corporate corruption fines in history â $1.6 billion â for bribing government officials in numerous countries.
I didnât say least corrupt, I said one of the least corrupt.
And so what? That was part of Siemens efforts to clean up their act years later. They turfed out 80% of their senior executives and completely changed their culture.
Transparency International measure on a COUNTRY basis, not on an individual company basis. Are you for real?
If it were a case that Transparency International were judge and jury on individual companies and accepted money from them before judging them, then you might have a point. You are dying to tie in some kind of âsoftâ approach from TI to a country based on an individual company giving them a grant. If North Korea were giving TI grants then you might have a point.
There are plenty of criticisms you can throw and them but this is just dumb.
I can understand you wanting to believe TI. Your trusting but naĂŻve heart is to be admired but when I hear Ireland being held up as a bastion of ethical behaviour I immediately smell a rat. Accepting donations from a company âwhich in 2008 paid one of the largest corporate corruption fines in history â $1.6 billion â for bribing government officials in numerous countriesâ immediately raises suspicion.
Irelandâs wealthiest man was found by a tribunal to have generated his wealth through corrupt payments to an Irish politician, one who is still a sitting TD. Our prosecution and conviction levels for white collar crime are minimal. Our government enacted legislation to enable non indigenous companies to avoid paying tax. Yet TI see Ireland as being squeaky clean?
The Index is about countries.
This was 4 years later and part of their âcleansingâ of the company.
The fine was administered in their home country.
Denis OâBrienâs stuff was 20 plus years ago now palâŚthings change. 20 odd years ago I could point out any number of scandals in the same year in Western countries. Ireland has improved since that time - of that there is no doubt. Is corruption gone? Obviously not, itâs a constant battle and itâs no defence to what has happened before. But have some perspective and stop talking hyperbolic bollix.
âŚcan you imagine that baldy lickarse saying anything to anyone offlineâŚnot a hope.