No
I am talking about the failure of FF/FG to put in place a safety net for the people who get up early in the morning and going to work seeing at present close to 20% of payroll go in prsi/usc finding themselves out of work through no fault of there own ,
Finding out FF/FG have it already spent it on people who never work in there life, so there is none left for people who paid into the system ,
PRSI stands for Pay Related Social Insurance , pay related my A$$ , ,
I've been asking him that question for days. Best of luck getting an answer.Ok so are you now implying that any of the other parties who are all further left than either of those two parties would somehow give less of that money to social welfare recipients?
Were you happy to see the leader of Sinn Fein in this country and their leader in the UK at the funeral of the IRA enforcer, convicted terrorist and probobal bank robber Bobby Storey? Another "good Republican" who was a close friend of Gerry Adams, a man accused of being the head man in the IRA and of covering up the rape of his niece by his daughter. Storey was an active member of the IRA when they were murdering children in the UK. I think I'd rather see politicians at the Galway Races.But to answer your question directly, in consideration of the standing down and disarmament of IRA, with orders to engage in political activity - yes, I expect them to behave differently in this jurisdiction.
Were you happy to see the leader of Sinn Fein in this country and their leader in the UK at the funeral of the IRA enforcer, convicted terrorist and probobal bank robber Bobby Storey?
I dunno, you seem to be a fan of theirs. Do you think it is appropriate that their leaders addend the funeral of a terrorist??? Why would I be 'happy'?
I dunno, you seem to be a fan of theirs. Do you think it is appropriate that their leaders addend the funeral of a terrorist?
I can't imagine what purpose or benefit it would serve anyone if SF leaders stopped attending the funerals of IRA members.
So it took 4 months for the bleeding obvious to happenI'm usually with you Sunny but I am not sure here. The disaffected/looney base is not much bigger than 30% and maybe at an apogee. A stable centrist government for 5 years which might actually get things done compared to the zombie confidence trick and supply farce will not add to that 30%. The big problem for FF/FG is maintaining their individual raison d'etre and is Leo prepared to be MM's Tan for 5 years? Leo might have to step aside.
FF/FG/Greens now 7/4 favourite with PP, looks like I won't get that Sunny pint after all.
Surely that would be one reason why members of a political party who are mad anxious to govern us would not attend?
Why is it that Sinn Féin keeps aligning itself to its darker past?
When you say "govern us" who are you talking about? The Irish people? Or some particular sect(s) within?
To you it's their darker past,
Ní fheadar cathain a thiocfaidh an lá a mbeidh gach duine sásta maireachtaáil go sona sásta le chéile? B'fhéidir nach dtiocfaidh an lá in aon chor
I think that is a key point. The Shinners define themselves as being enemies of part of the population. They know nothing other than division. They talk about hard working families but they only mean hard working families on low and middle incomes. They frame their rhetoric in the old socialist presumption that there is a limited amount of potential wealth and so if one family is poor it is because another family is rich.Yes but do Sinn Féin want to represent all of the people of Ireland?
I thought it was the other way around. Fierce is too "Nordie" to gain mainstream support in "the saoth" whereas Mary-Lou used to be in FF and is only interested in helping the Wuuukers you know and has nothing to do with the IRA, no, she is the New Sinn Fein, with all the blood washed off.So no surprise to see Mary Lou at an IRA funeral in Belfast. But Fierce DohertyThat was a shock. I thought he represented the new respectable face of SF. So he too shouts "Up the 'Ra" in the privacy of his own comrades.
Get over yourself Theo. A young Catholic in 1969 Belfast had far better prospects than his counterpart in, say, Ballymun. I was that soldier.To you it's their darker past, to them its the past of brave volunteers who stood against internment, collusion, shoot-to-kill, censorship, while their communities came under attack and were abandoned by the authorities.
My family was heavily involved in 1916, the War of Independence and the Civil War.
from the betrayal of the Catholic population of Northern Ireland by Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins.
The IRA murdered and intimidated people from their own community who engaged with the Protestant establishment.
I consider the commitment to constitutional politics by their leadership (the artists formerly known as the Army Council) as nothing more than a veneer.
Get over yourself Theo.
And do you believe that the Party, the organisation at a top level, is fully committed to constitutional democratic politics? For my part I don't think that are and, along with their politics of division and their populist pseudo-socialism I would never support them.To be clear, any support I may give to SF now is wholly conditional on their participation in constitutional democratic politics.
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