”If Jesus Christ was in government right now he would be very unpopular” – Pat Rabbitte
Text taken from Twitter: @AineDempsey ”If Jesus Christ was in government right now he would be very unpopular” – Pat Rabbitte on Vincent Brownes TV3…
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‘Fiscal Compact’ will not be enough to end the financial crisis.
Jean-Claude Piris, who helped write the Lisbon and other EU Treaties has warned that the ‘Fiscal Compact’ will not be enough to end the financial crisis.
Government has pre-empted a ‘Yes’ vote in Fiscal Stability Treaty
The Government has pre-empted a ‘Yes’ vote by agreeing that access to the ESM fund is conditional on a ‘Yes’ outcome, because we have already committed to paying €11bn…
Both FF/Green & FG/Labour tried to avoid having Referendum
Despite the Government making every effort to avoid a referendum, we have a vote on the Fiscal Compact Treaty. (since passed)
European Stability Mechanism (EMS) is a Treaty we have signing without referendum.
The European Stability Mechanism (EMS) is a Treaty we have signing without referendum. ESM establishes a fund for ‘bailouts’ (we have committed €11bn plus to it). However,…
Empowering the members of Fianna Fáil, not the People!
At their Ard Feis, the FF leader declared the “empowerment” of their members, he made no mention of the empowerment of the citizens! Entirly appropriate for what is a private…
Fianna Fáil, the private members club, is unrepentant.
It took 15 years and a cost of €300m for the Fianna Fáil leadership to admit and act on the obvious… What can we say?!
Paying the cost of deceiving ourselves!
To celebrate their first year ‘in office’ both Fine Gael and Labour TD’s are to send out newsletters to their constituents outlining their “achievements” so far. The…
Enda Kenny: Arrogant dismissal of peoples concerns on Septic Tank issue
Enda Kenny for his part brushed aside the growing fear of many over the septic tank registration with his comment that the cost was less than the price of a pint a week.
Rabbitte & Children’s Hospital: planning laws need “finessing”, as he put it.
A few weeks ago the same Pat Rabbitte’s response to the children’s hospital planning refusal was to offer an opinion that it is the planning laws which needed changing or…
Rabbitte: ‘take the progamme team out at dawn and shoot them’!
Pat Rabbitte in response to the BAI finding that RTE had mishandled the Gallagher presidential tweet on Prime Time and afterwards could only dismissively ask if he should ‘take…
Arrogant dismissal of concerns – Alan Shatter and Brian Hayes
During the referendums held at the time of the Presidential elections both Alan Shatter and Brian Hayes distinguished themselves by their arrogant dismissal of concerns raised by…
Richard Bruton Reveals Contempt People’s Right to Decide
During the Fiscal Compact Referendum Debate: Government Minister Richard Bruton revealed the truth in an interview by Matt Cooper on Today FM (17/5/2012). When discussing the…
