Brian Cowen warns anyone speaking about the banks to be quiet in the national interes

WoollyRedHat

Brian Cowen yesterday said that those commenting on the banking situation should be quiet in the national interest.

"Mr Cowen is warning that anyone speaking about the banking situation should consider how their comments might impact on the national interest."


He also sent letters to the opposition leaders to the same extent.


http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/politics/cowen-warns-against-rash-comments-on-bank-crisis-1607803.html


Right, I presume all talk of the banks will now be banned right? After all Cowen said so, so we must. I mean it's in the national interest, it's our patriotic duty!

Mingey

Grand, I'll just stick to talking my usual ****e so.

Sure whats wrong with that? Does this country need any more negativity than it does?

javaboy

In light of recent comments by our beloved leader Brian Cowen, there is to be no further discussion of AIB, the other AIB, BOI, the Recession or the weather.

Nehaxak

Ssshhh, don't mention anything that might in any way effect the wealthy elite/gangsters/corrupt in Ireland.

Mark200

Well I can understand advising high-profile people to think twice before they comment on something. The most innocent comments can send inverstors and customers into panic.

Adamcp898

It's official we're going bankrupt! Only about 2 months and an 'r' between oursleves and Iceland now.

Wreck

Adamcp898 wrote: »

It's official we're going bankrupt! Only about 2 months and an 'r' between oursleves and Iceland now.

Riceland?

thelordofcheese

Mark200 wrote: »

Well I can understand advising high-profile people to think twice before they comment on something. The most innocent comments can send inverstors and customers into panic.

This.

The wrong comment at the wrong time could easily spark a run on a bank, it's not nefarious, it's sensible.

And now, for the thread to descend into the usual clusterfuck.

themadchef

Sweep it under the carpet Ireland.

WTf is our president doing? Is she only there for show?

Caoimhín

It appears he sent a letter to Inda Kenny asking FG to "shut the fúck up" too.

http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm

Puddleduck

themadchef wrote: »

Sweep it under the carpet Ireland.

WTf is our president doing? Is she only there for show?

Eh duh. We need her to shake peoples hands

Adamcp898

Wreck wrote: »

Riceland?

I can either point out what I meant

or

make a poor self semi-racist degrading joke relating to paddy's growing rice in paddy fields :pac:

themadchef wrote: »

WTf is our president doing? Is she only there for show?

Yes

ejmaztec

I'm waiting for Obama's speech to finish because that's when the sun is going to come out and money's going to be falling from the sky.

HIVeindhoven

Re the anglo thing, any protests planned for this? You would think given the possibility of this bankrupting the state that there would be some marches on the dail planned. I'd be up for it, some effigys of Bertie being lynched and Cowen set alight outside the Dail would get the point across nicely.

Davo D

Loose lips sinks ships banks?

Roadend

HIVeindhoven wrote: »

and Cowen set alight outside the Dail

Its a week long protest you've planned?

Caoimhín

HIVeindhoven wrote: »

I'd be up for it, some effigys of Bertie being lynched and Cowen set alight outside the Dail would get the point across nicely.

Please remain where you are, the squad car is on the way to your house to arrest you for disrespecting our beloved leader, Robert Mugabe Biffo Cowen.

The_Minister

TBH, he has a point.

The IMF comment that he never made caused the euro to lose ground on the dollar.

Consumer confidence is going to be key to solving this, people will need to feel like they can spend safetly, and having new programs every day with someone else saying how crap everything is makes this more difficult.

The kind of talk that he is refferring to could lengthen the recession, for no reason other than the Opposition want soundbites, and every economist hack wants to put his name out there.

ejmaztec

Davo D wrote: »

Loose lips sinks ships banks?

Big lips sink countries.

Caoimhín

The_Minister wrote: »

Consumer confidence is going to be key to solving this, people will need to feel like they can spend safetly, and having new programs every day with someone else saying how crap everything is makes this more difficult.
.

Indeed, we need to get people spending money they dont have on crap they dont need.

Sadly true.

KTRIC

Der Führer, Herr Cowen has spoken.

Heil Cowen !!

Heil Cowen !!

cooperla

What place does free speech and open discussion have in a democracy anyway?

funk-you

He might be a tit but this article raises some good reasons to quieten down the negativity.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0120/1232059661794.html

-Funk

The_Minister

cooperla wrote: »

What place does free speech and open discussion have in a democracy anyway?

He's not saying that you can't excercise your right to free speech, he is saying that you should use your right responsibly and with restraint.

ejmaztec

funk-you wrote: »

He might be a tit but this article raises some good reasons to quieten down the negativity.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0120/1232059661794.html

-Funk

Does that mean that cowboy hats are going to be compulsory headgear for all TDs from now on? Yeeehah!

funk-you

ejmaztec wrote: »

Does that mean that cowboy hats are going to be compulsory headgear for all TDs from now on? Yeeehah!

I'd pay more taxes to see that:pac:

-Funk

Dyr

"national interest" is code for fianna fails survival

Klingon Hamlet

Up until recently, Cowen refused to admit the fact that this country was sliding deep into a self-created recession. He claimed our economic boom would continue through to 2010/11. I remember reading his bullsh!t in the morning Metros and Herald AMs, shaking my head in disdain on the train to work, stomach a little sickened because I knew---working in banking---that he was lying.

I also couldn't understand his---and as a result, the nation's---obsession with getting a foot on the property ladder. There was an ever-present fear-mongering that if one didn't get their foot in the door now, they would pay extortionate prices later.

And so now, here we stand, mere months later, billions in debt, weak-to-poor infrastructure, little export business to speak of, foreign investment drying up, regulators proving to be more corrupt than the white-collared criminals they supervise, banks proving to be foolish, greedy, yet untouchable---and we, the taxpayer, must not voice our concerns? We must hold fast, knuckle down, tighten our belts, keep the gobs shut and weather the storm?

Opposition must bow to the dominant parties, agree to stay silent as yet more crimes are committed?

Does anyone realise that the recent cancellation of the €20m lockin scheme in Anglo Irish serves one man in particular? Sean Quinn, the biggest stakeholder, can now release his personal funds, default on payments and allow the Government controlling stake in Quinn Health Insurance, meaning they own both that and VHI.

Monopolising and nationalising aren't in people's interest. We shoulder the blame and the responsibility but we see no profit at the end of it. Biffo's brother's a developer, yeah? Conflict of interest, I imagine.

And so we have to just watch the money magically disappear. Watch extortionate banks swallow up our hard-earned funds while young girls cannot get the HPV treatment and nurses take a paycut.

Fu^k you Cowen. Freedom of speech is exactly that. Lie all you want but we, the people, do not stand for ignorant tyrants and manipulative bullies. We work hard for what we have which is now, thanks to your stubbornness and incompetence, very little.

I want to see TD expense accounts. I want to see the Anglo Irish Takeover legislation. I want a concise and literate translation and breakdown of Lisbon II before it's dangled before us like a lifejacket to a drowning nation. And I want to hear what everyone has to say: economists, opposition leaders, and most importantly, the ECB.

Censoring opinions and facts is no way to run a country, it just ruins it. Cowen is as snake-like as Bertie and Haughey, but minus the charisma. His colours show. He may try to shove down our throats the idea that staying optimistic is in our best interests. But we know better.

Don't we?

cooperla

The_Minister wrote: »

He's not saying that you can't excercise your right to free speech, he is saying that you should use your right responsibly and with restraint.

I can understand what you're saying but I'm not sure I agree with what he's saying.

Not a financial expert by any means, but if the current move is meant to boost confidence, doesn't the huge drop in share value yesterday mean that this isn't building confidence?

old boy

the longer clown cowen keeps quite and sits on his hands the worse it is going to be, fecck their brand of nationalistic bull****, they got rid of mc creevy as he was trying to keep a lid on things but the ff ers were saying his policys would cost them votes, now their actions have cost us our country,
it looks like they are taking a leaf out of devs book keep them quite, keep them ingorant.

ejmaztec

I wonder if Herr Cowen is reincarnated from the Mayans, whose civilisation disappeared without trace all those centuries ago.




I think that he must have been.

Nodin

themadchef wrote: »

Sweep it under the carpet Ireland.

WTf is our president doing? Is she only there for show?

You're only realising that now? The last time one of them did something (which was actually within their remit to do) they had to resign.