bearishbull
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The small mindedness of the Irish public never ceases to disappoint me.
Same here, why they keep voting these jokers into office is beyond me.
Actually, I'd venture the opposite. He gets off more lightly than he might — precisely by playing the bumbling gobdaw (with consumate skill).Bertie gets an easy ride for such an incompetent bumbling gobdaw in my opinion.
I would say that we don't knock our leaders enough, Bush is a figure of ridicule in the US, Blair is despised in the UK. Bertie gets an easy ride for such an incompetent bumbling gobdaw in my opinion.
But I don't like the way the Irish people in general undermine and demean politicians and politics in general. It undermines the whole democratic process.
As per some of my other posts, I believe that once a person leaves this country, they give up the right to slag off those of us left behind. It's just pettiness to keep harking back on the bad things.
You do not become less Irish once you leave this country, and have every right (as enshrined in The Constitution) to voice your opinion on the governance of your homeland.
I'm suggesting no such thing. What I am suggesting is that the juvenile personalised criticism that the media in general levels at politicians lets them avoid answering will constructed questions and means that we do not get a true picture of how our country is run. In the case of the newspapers and radio it's lazy journalism and doesn't serve the public interest. In the case of websites like this one it allows the ill informed to laugh at things that they don’t really understand.If you are suggesting that if we are kinder to our politicians that they will preform better I'm willing to give it a go. However in countries where criticism of the political establishment is severely curtailed, corruption, maladministration and poverty are rampant. On second thoughts I think I'll remain a vigilant and verbouse; I think its my patriotic duty.
I'm curious about this - what specific article of the constitution covers this?You do not become less Irish once you leave this country, and have every right (as enshrined in The Constitution) to voice your opinion on the governance of your homeland.
I'm curious about this - what specific article of the constitution covers this?
Spoken like, ehm, a Minister for Justice..!...it allows the ill informed to laugh at things that they don’t really understand.
Article 40.6.1
Perhaps, but taxpayers don't pay the owner's salary, expenses and pension.
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