Phil Hogan Got Cut-Price Mortgage

Has Phil Hogan paid the outstanding property fees and taxes on this villa yet???

He didnt like it one bit when the story broke and made the headlines a few months back.

I wonder why??;):rolleyes::rolleyes:

I rekon the various trade unions will force Labour to pull out of goverment next year and this will bring the current goverment down.

Theres only so many taxes and tax increases the unions will take,before they revolt.

philologos wrote: »

step down to a generous State pension?

10,000 silk ties and some nice big green trees outside Leinster House..........;)



"Patriotic" indeed........eh Big Phil?

wexie wrote: »

So how is it ever going to change then Biggins? If that's how it is (personally I think you're right) then the top three are simply going to perpetuate the status quo, they won't allow anybody in their ranks that won't stand for it and there aren't (from what I can see) any viable alternatives.....Are we just doomed forever?

What's the odds of a new party forming, gaining popularity and actually getting elected, then still remembering their election promises and clearing house?

Damn...that's a depressing thought.

(sorry for dragging the topic OT, just planting seeds in my Biggins for Taoiseach campaign)

Putting it in accuracy terms, change can only come by a majority,
A majority is needed to pass the legislation that would make transparency official and a retro-active where possible.
(The FG/Labour have brought in some changes - but then they watered down them! (Example: all TD's would have to clock in AND clock out. Watered down to... they can clock in, well some of the time, the rest of the time someone else can do it for them, and even if they did show up in the Dail, they don't even have to clock out now either.)*

The top three are are still perpetuating virtual status quo.
What we have got is pure window-dressing so far.

What is needed is a pure new clean sweep. End of story.
Within the first month of a clean sweep, transparency laws should be further enacted - and bloody stuck to!
The Dail is there to serve the people.
The Dail is not and should not be there to serve the TD's (and that includes its extra bonus tax free, bars and inner restaurants!).

Will the above happen?
Hell no - because the old, tired, musical chair shower thats currently in it are making sure of that.
They and they sycophancy fans frankly don't want change in processes and monetary terms - they want Euro notes's and the more the merrier!

What's the odds of a new party forming, gaining popularity and actually getting elected, then still remembering their election promises and clearing house?
Very unlikely - if only because the club of three and their fans have the electorate scared and fooled enough to think that all change is bad and no diversification should be made away from the top three current parties.

...And thats the state of play at the moment!

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* Why alone is the above in brackets important?

...Because now they don't have to go down on record (which the public/media could apply to see under freedom of information) showing just how little time they actually attended the Dail in minutes/hours and/or even the days that they REALLY showed up (instead of their mates clocking them in).
...Which is all important as to how much they get in extra perks and allowances - you know like accommodation, travel and even parking allowances, etc.
...So on this issue alone, the data and real facts are clouded and confused, deliberative in order (I suspect) that the more accurate truth shall never be found out by a public that, god forbid, got outraged enough to vote out a charlatan and elect a more moral person!

...But hey, lets still get all those allowance's in for days that officially they might have been clocked in - but not really there, but also that the public never finds out out just really exactly how many few minutes as elected representatives, they spend in the Dail chamber, debating and more importantly, questioning every like aspect of laws that effect the people directly.

...You know - the job they were also elected for and should be doing!