And pigs might fly !Since we still have it as an offence on the statutes then it is time to jail the union leaders for sedition.
This whole tread is a bit mad (ted). The people as a whole have being threatening governments like this since the foundation of the electoral system here? Intrest groups have always hinted/threatened the sitting goverment with its demise should their demands not be met. Its a fop, mothing more. Don't take it so seriously. ICTU know perfectly well that thier membership won't vote for any particular party based on any union instruction. If they did then Labour would have an overall majority.
The best and most sinister example of this type of rubbish in recent times was 1997 when the Independent ran a front page editorial entitled "Its payback time" just before the general election.
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Perhaps Larry Broderick should be concentrating more on the upcoming threats to jobs and pay in AIB !Saying you are going to bring down the Government through the ballot box is not what the IBOA leader was talking about. He was talking about trying to bring down the Government through industrial action. I would of thought the objective of industrial action is to defend your members interests. If you decide to politicise your campaign and make bringing down the Government your objective, you have crossed the line and have become a threat to democracy in this Country.There is nothing to stop the trade unions setting up their own political party and getting a mandate at the next election.
Anyway even ICTU have backed away from his comments. Like I say before, I have no idea what the IBOA are complaining about anyway. They should be on their knees thanking the taxpayer and the Government. And I say that as a banker.
Perhaps Larry Broderick should be concentrating more on the upcoming threats to jobs and pay in AIB !
I dont think we'll see a violent revolution or anything like that (at least I hope we dont), but I'm am sensing deep unease among a lot of people. I'm not talking about your usual left wing nuts who are always dissaffected and always protest. I mean ordinary generally mild mannered sensible people.
I remember saying on this forum before the last election, that this Government will be the last stand of the gombeen man. I am 100% certain that this is the case. I have a sense that the mood is similar to that in eastern Europe in the couple of years before the fall of the Berlin wall. When the mild mannered middle classes get agitated, the Government is in serious difficulties. While I would not rule out the possibility of the Government falling via peaceful protest ala fall of the Berlin wall, I do believe that when the next election comes, whether it be weeks or years away, FF will be about as popular as the Stasi are in eastern Germany. There are FF members I know who will not even vote for their own party (and will not be renewing their membership). I think we'll see a big change in Irish politics with no place for gombeen man TDs.
Economic reality and the Banks !And all the other banks! Of course he will start coming out with all this rubbish about 'how our members didn't cause this crisis'....Well either did the people who have lost their jobs, the public sector employees, the poor, the disabled etc etc. Doesn't change economic reality.
Lock them up in the Tower and get the rack out !I am sure it's all talk and waffle from the unions. Still though, such talk is a threat to the Republic. The threat from the Gardai is a far more worrying one IMO.
One way or another it should be made clear to any one that threatens the Republic that swift action will be taken against sedition.
Lock them up in the Tower and get the rack out !
Heads on spikes perhaps ?
FF’s biggest asset is still in place though and that has to be taken into account; Mr. Enda Kenny
Lock them up in the Tower and get the rack out !
Heads on spikes perhaps ?
Why stop there ?
Why not wave the edict on treason in front of a coterie of Bankers,Developers and Politicians ?
plus 1David Begg is the leader of a lobby group. Accusing him of treason is a bit much. If anyone was to be charged with treason for the damage they have done to this country it should be Bertie Ahern.
Nobody on this thread accused David Begg of treason , sedition was the worst he was accused of .David Begg is the leader of a lobby group. Accusing him of treason is a bit much. If anyone was to be charged with treason for the damage they have done to this country it should be Bertie Ahern.
David Begg is the leader of a lobby group. Accusing him of treason is a bit much. If anyone was to be charged with treason for the damage they have done to this country it should be Bertie Ahern.
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