Our Glorious Leaders and Masters
There is a new political party here in Ireland.
Independent Ireland has its own website which is pretty sparse when it comes to its manifesto or its general aims.
One piece that is interesting is its attitude to gubmint spending. 33,000 NGOs? What the fuck? Who are they? How come the Irish are paying them €6.2 billion a year? To put that in context for my British reader, that would be equivalent to the British gubmint spending well in excess of £72 billion on nameless NGOs.
Their policy on curtailing spending would almost spark enough interest to get me to actually get off my arse and vote for them which is quite an achievement.
But then I see an item about attendance in the Dáil yesterday. 160 TDs all being paid six figure salaries plus generous allowances and perks and they don’t even turn up for work?
I give you yesterdays debates on Topical Issues –
Is it any wonder that I have such a cynical view of the gubmint and every member of it?
They can continue to fuck off as far as I am concerned.
“€6.2 billion [is] equivalent to … £72 billion” What?!
Aksherly, €6.2 billion is about £5.3 billion. Back to school for you. 😉
I suspect that Grandad was looking at the relative size of the two economies.
I was. I reckoned around twelve times the size?
I think over here in Kent, I’d rather see empty benches than loads of fat, incompetent, lazy, thick, useless idiots parading and puffing their stupidity!
It now seems that Ireland will be getting even more illegal immigrants after the first old banger takes off from some Godforsaken airport somewhere in the UK.
Sorry about that – you deserve much more than the result of such inapproropriate ‘legislation’ by the dross in the HOC over here…
What a total fuck-up this whole issue is!
All your fat, incompetent, lazy, thick, useless idiots are just heading up through England, taking the boat to Belfast and then strolling down here. The vast majority of our “safety seeking” immigrants arrive via the North. Thanks. We would prefer if you could take them back, thanks.
That’s just awful, Grandad. The fat, incompetent, lazy, thick, useless idiots are sitting there in our House of Commons! I don’t know how the illegals fare in size or weight, but their language may be a barrier there…
All the countries they’ve passed through seem to have been ‘too dangerous’ – especially France, and we’ve had enough of them down here, with the RNLI helping them land, giving them all they need, etc.!
How are they getting across your borders then? Are there no checks there also? I haven’t a clue what happens when they get to Liverpool – are they all in on it as well…
Who is reporting this farce over in your country then? Over here, we’d never believe the BBC or their mates!
I did a follow up to this with all the answers!
Your Independent Ireland sounds like a ‘disrupter party’, similar to AfD in Germany and Reform UK across the water. They may lack funds and elected representatives (although II appears to have a couple of TDs) but their function is to speak the unspeakable, to challenge the orthodox sacred cows of the established parties and to expose their failure to align with the electorate.
They don’t need to gain majority power, they just need to make a level of noise that becomes irresistible, then the rest have to acknowledge and respond. The more votes they get, the noisier they become, then the harder it is for the rest to maintain their cosy status quo – the status quo that’s created all the problems.
Why not give them a vote, what’s to lose?
That’s exactly what I feel Reform can be doing – stir up enough interest so they’re never off the front pages!
Whether you like George Galloway, (‘new’ MP over here), or not, he manages all this on his own!
That was my interpretation too. They haven’t a chance against the big parties but will hopefully grow and at least get people thinking.