[Cawk n bawllz]

Seriously. How feasable would it be? We get a group of intelligent men and women together to manage our country as our new government, starting ASAP.
In the meantime we just completely boycott anything our current government says or does and direct all our taxes and revenue to our newly appointed government.
It's so far fetched that it's silly but lets discuss it anyway.

[Francie Barrett]

Enda and his team are doing the best they can given the cards they have been dealt.

I hope that helps.

[Markdub2000]

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[meglome]

Originally Posted by Markdub2000

They haven't done what we voted them in for ... Telling Europe to fcuk off

Did they say that?

And on the OP given our love affair with populist policies of any kind it would be an unmitigated disaster. The Swiss have direct democracy and just voted not to have another two weeks holidays a year.

[Cawk n bawllz]

Enda and his band of merry men have come through on none of their promises, ignore all of our needs and protests and we do absolutely nothing about it because the Irish people are just too sedate.

[meglome]

Originally Posted by Cawk n bawllz

Enda and his band of merry men have come through on none of their promises, ignore all of our needs and protests and we do absolutely nothing about it because the Irish people are just too sedate.

Sigh... So why don't you get their election manifesto and show us that is true? It's isn't true, but go for it. And BTW ignoring a protest that had a few thousand people at it is quite easy I'd imagine.

[Sand]

In the meantime we just completely boycott anything our current government says or does and direct all our taxes and revenue to our newly appointed government.
It's so far fetched that it's silly but lets discuss it anyway.

I think some lads tried that out around 1920 or so. Started off well enough, but in the long run it became a bit of a disaster. People these days think perhaps the previous regime couldn't be much worse.

@Francie Barrett

Enda and his team are doing the best they can given the cards they have been dealt.

Ah the poor lad. Shure, he must cry himself asleep on the bed of money he gets paid for doing the best he can given the cards he has been dealt.

Honestly - how do these excuses differ from anything Fianna Fail might have offered? Weren't they doing the best they could have done given the cards they were dealt?

[Ben D Bus]

Originally Posted by Cawk n bawllz

Seriously. How feasable would it be? We get a group of intelligent men and women together to manage our country as our new government, starting ASAP.

How would we choose this group of intelligent men and women?

[jimmycrackcorm]

Originally Posted by Cawk n bawllz

Enda and his band of merry men have come through on none of their promises, ignore all of our needs and protests and we do absolutely nothing about it because the Irish people are just too sedate.

Pray do tell what magic economic policies these clever replacements would magically implement?

[Good loser]

Pat Rabbitte put it well yesterday 'We got a new Govt but we didn't get a new economy'.

We can source these experts over the next four years and then vote them in - democratically.

[paddy0090]

Originally Posted by meglome

Sigh... So why don't you get their election manifesto and show us that is true? It's isn't true, but go for it. And BTW ignoring a protest that had a few thousand people at it is quite easy I'd imagine.

??????

Sarkozy promised a rupture with the past. By most if not all accounts he didn't deliver.

Clegg promised new politics, turned out same as the politics.

Both Kenny and Martin(both teachers like de Valera and Jack Lynch before them) proimised new politics and the status quo remains.

The best was Obama. Change was a slogan and he was the first black POTUS. Accepting his rule is limited by division of power but what has he really changed?

They ccampaign in poetry and govern in prose(by the margins). But I see little appetite for such governent byt the govt, or the wider public.

[meglome]

Originally Posted by paddy0090

??????

Sarkozy promised a rupture with the past. By most if not all accounts he didn't deliver.

Clegg promised new politics, turned out same as the politics.

Both Kenny and Martin(both teachers like de Valera and Jack Lynch before them) proimised new politics and the status quo remains.

The best was Obama. Change was a slogan and he was the first black POTUS. Accepting his rule is limited by division of power but what has he really changed?

They ccampaign in poetry and govern in prose(by the margins). But I see little appetite for such governent byt the govt, or the wider public.

Because we in Ireland won't elect people unless they make us all sorts of promises I'm not remotely surprised when they don't get carried out. However I'm only highlighting that saying the current government have not carried out any of their elections promises is incorrect.

[K-9]

Originally Posted by meglome

Because we in Ireland won't elect people unless they make us all sorts of promises I'm not remotely surprised when they don't get carried out. However I'm only highlighting that saying the current government have not carried out any of their elections promises is incorrect.

We all know politicians lie and spin, yet punish the politicians we voted for, wait for it, for lying and spinning,

[paddy0090]

Originally Posted by meglome

Because we in Ireland won't elect people unless they make us all sorts of promises I'm not remotely surprised when they don't get carried out. However I'm only highlighting that saying the current government have not carried out any of their elections promises is incorrect.

In the same vein of saying that FF didn't carry out it's election promises is incorrect. FF may well have done the same as FG if they'd have managed to get elected.

maybe it's a good thing that none of the high profile promises of the campaign have been followed thru. Some of them they botched(the committee ref, the household charge) Failed on upward only rent reviews; withrawing on legal reform, little in health care bar some small closures and hard to tell what the hell is going on in education( 6months after a major policy shift deadline has expired) though lots of sentiment.

The jobs initiative was a farce; as was resinstating the min wage. Every other policy gets trotted out with TINA. They haven't taken full ownership of the situation and continue to attribute current policy to previous FF govt.

Stating that FG/Lab haven't delivered on promises is perfectly correct!

[realies]

Originally Posted by Ben D Bus

How would we choose this group of intelligent men and women?

Get them from boards.ie All the answers seem to be here