Just curious if anybody out there can give a fair assessment of how FF have been performing over the last year.
Does anyone else agree that its critical that the minimum wage is slashed? Isnt it about €10, compared to £4.70 in the North.
Less than €10 (about €9?) and more than £4.70 (about £6?)
But yes, we have apparently the highest minimum wage in the world?! Doesn't make sense and needs to be reduced.
While I would accept there are factors out of the government's control, I do not rate Cowen/government's performance for the past year.
They totally underestimated the extent of the problem with the public finances when they brought forward the budget last October. As far back as last December many commentators thought a Spring budget was inevitable. The government resisted this but of course were forced to conceed defeat in April.
Cowen refused to reduce the number of junior ministers even when some had offered to resign. Again a couple of months later he was forced to cut them from 20 to 15.
I also think his appointment of Mary Coughlan to Minister for Enterprise (and second in command) because they were buddies rather than giving the job to someone more qualified was a big mistake.
None of these would make me have confidence in the government.
Maybe it is time for a national government, consisting of the best brains from the lot of them.
Maybe it is time for a national government, consisting of the best brains from the lot of them.
My biggest issue with them is that they just don't inspire me as being in control of things. The Greens at least seem to be trying to get some of their policies through and Gormly deserves credit for trying to end the e voting saga after his 2 predecessors acted like ostriches over the matter. However I just get the impression that Brian Lenihan is making it up as he goes along. Medical cards, parking tax, 2nd housing tax, cutting TDs expenses etc etc, all things that in themselves may have had some merit but never seem to have been thought through properly so that they could be implemented speedily and effectively
The truth is that this government has been, at best, a damp squid.
I'm not marine biologist but I'd say you're right, squid are probably damp most of the time, if not downright wet. I think you might have been referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp_squib
I'm not marine biologist but I'd say you're right, squid are probably damp most of the time, if not downright wet. I think you might have been referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp_squib
p.s. this is just a joke, maybe it was only a typo by you but I didnt know the true meaning. On the same vein (sp?) I checked out a while back "harbinger of doom" - another phrase I might say but would have been afraid to write or type.
I must add, that I think that the Enda Kenny's poor ratings, which are at odds with his parties, are because the electorate perceives him to be an old style rural politician.
I'm sure the thousands of rural people who voted for Kenny in Mayo have no issue with him being an old style rural politician.
To me the problem with Kenny is that he just doesn't seem to have an original thought in his head. I'm waiting on him to mimic Obama and perhaps borrow a quote from another Cbeebies character.
Cowen is doing his best in bad worldwide economic circumstances.
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