National Government

[Rocko]

That’s a very good article from McWilliams following on from a decent post from KIB Man which in turn followed an excellent post from myself.

There are (very wealthy) people making an awful lot of money from investments in our doomed banks. It’s a shambles.

[Sidney]

@farmerinthecity

Utter bullshit.

When was the last time you were actually around the country? Our road infrastructure is excellent considering where we came friom just ten years ago. It is a fact that is often forgotten when people go on about how we pissed away the boom.

As for the lack of a sustainable, vibrant economy, we are still standing despite taking an almighty wallop. Now I have no doubt the finger of blame of that wallop lies ultimately at the hands of the Taoiseach of our country but to say that the country has collapsed is just not true. Me, and most people I know are still maintaining a reasonable standard of living.

As for all your hyperbole above, you were the guy calling for us to let Anglo colllapse back in September 2008. Not only would this have meant our entire banking system fell, but we would have incurred the wrath of the EU, where there was a clear instruction given to prop up the banks at any cost. You’re response to this was ‘fuck them we are a republic, we can do what we want’. This at the most critical time economically in the history of our State, and this guy is calling for us to stick two fingers up to the one place which could make or break us. Christ I would hate to have seen you in charge back at that time. We would be well and truly fucked.

The make up of the current electoral system is completely wrong if you ask me. People do place emphasis on the local guy - I wouldn’t call them gombeens for that. They are ultimately wanting to elect the person who has performed best for them in the past. Most of them couldn’t give a shite about party politics, they vote for the individual. You may slag them off as much as you want for that but it is only a human reaction. I would hasten a guess that most people across the world would do the same thing, and this is not necessarily just an problem with us ‘dumb Irish’.

What a pile of I’m alright jack, steaming shite.

[treaty_exile]

@sid waddell

What a pile of I’m alright jack, steaming shite.

reminded me of this crap:

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There is a key point in all of this – a point that simply cannot be dismissed, and something I have thought a good bit about in the run up to these elections.

Leitrim have no TD. They have no representative in Dail Eireann. Just think about that for a minute. Now a Leitrim candidate comes along in the European elections and I am going to vote for him. I don’t care who he represents. I don’t like Fianna Fail but the very fact that this guy represents my area, which is chronically misrepresented on the country and European stage, justifies his support in my eyes.

As for the locals, the guy I am voting for I have known for most of my life. So I am voting for him to get elected. I know him and I know he will do an excellent job. That’s it. He represents Fianna Fail granted but it doesn’t bother me. Should it? Possibly. But it doesn’t.

I don’t buy the party politics thing – never have. I probably shouldn’t vote for a Fianna Fail representative but what I certainly shouldn’t do is vote for a candidate that I know to be inferior on the grounds that he represents another party. On that theme also, I don’t see it justified to vote for a candidate from Donegal or Clare for the simple reason that he does not represent Fianna Fail.

[KinvarasPassion]

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