Are they all at it ?

Fulton Crown

Freekin hell ??

House of Commons / House of lords....fiddling the old expenses...hardly paupers them lot.

Closer to home ..councillors taking bribes....politicians alledgly taking back handers.

bankers doing the old pals act..etc etc.

Board members turning a blind eye..........

Is everybody at it ...Huh ?

Is there anybody who does not have some little scam going these days....

My name is URL

Where have you being for the last decade?

galwayrush

It's the nature of the beast.:rolleyes:

markok84

pffft, of course!! if you don't have a scam going you're a nobody. How can you sleep at night knowing that you're not screwing anybody over?

Myrddin

Yes they are all at it, the difference being the brits wont stand for it. Hence the plans announced today for an independant group to police mp's wages/expenses, less than 10 days after the scandal was revealed.

Its typical of the Irish to stand for the type of corruption and crap that goes on in our government. If its just going to be all talk talk talk, then we deserve what we get.

phasers

Don't tell me you wouldn't if given half the chance.

Myrddin

phasers wrote: »

Don't tell me you wouldn't if given half the chance.

Id me more inclined to do it if I was in Irish goverment, seen as they can do anything they want and all the irish seem to want to do about it is go onto Joe Duffy and winge.

Wheres the protests, wheres the no confidence, wheres all the action to change what these "leaders" are doing? Its all in the media, talk talk talk

Elliemental

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Freekin hell ??

House of Commons / House of lords....fiddling the old expenses...hardly paupers them lot.

Closer to home ..councillors taking bribes....politicians alledgly taking back handers.

bankers doing the old pals act..etc etc.

Board members turning a blind eye..........

Is everybody at it ...Huh ?

Is there anybody who does not have some little scam going these days....

They always have been, and they always will be. Nothing will change.
(feel so old and cynical now:()

AnonoBoy

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Board members turning a blind eye..........

How dare you Sir? We here at boards.ie are NOT turning a blind eye.

Rented Mule

Power corrupts.

Absolutle powers corrupts absolutely.

Absolut and Powers = Good Times.

Fulton Crown

OK ..from the responses it seems that everybody IS "at it" ..i.e ripping off employers, employees, customers, friends, neighbours,etc etc. !

Seems to be a commonly held view that if "you get the chance" then it's OK to rip off / steal / scam etc.

Thsoe chappies over on the Mainland seem to have brought expense fiddling to a high art form..hard to believe the hard neck of some of them.

Probably a safe bet that the lads and lassies over here are at it too !

Shouls be an election issue IMO....:(

Mr Benevolent

About the only authoritah figures in Ireland who don't take bribes are our very own mods.

What do I have to do to bribe someone around here?? :pac:

Quazzie

Confab wrote: »

What do I have to do to bribe someone around here?? :pac:

Bend over :eek:

funk-you

Confab wrote: »

What do I have to do to bribe someone around here?? :pac:

Quazzie wrote: »

Bend over :eek:

That'll do *grabs lube*

-Funk

Mr Benevolent

Bend over :eek:

That'll do *grabs lube*

Is that you, Biffo?

funk-you

Confab wrote: »

Is that you, Biffo?

Shit, they're on to me......to the Bifmobile!

-Funk

North_West_Art

Rented Mule wrote: »

Power corrupts.

Absolutle powers corrupts absolutely.

Absolut and Powers = Good Times.

Authority + Monopoly - Transparency = Corruption

Mr Benevolent

North_West_Art wrote: »

Authority + Monopoly - Transparency = Corruption

Eh? Now we have corruption equations? What are you, an economics student?

My take on it:

((Power^2)(Dail bar + (Mary Harney)(Biffo) * (Bertie^1000)) / ((People's apathy)(Tradition)) = Ireland

Rented Mule

Confab wrote: »

Is that you, Biffo?

He does claim to 'stand behind the people'.

nice1franko

If that scandal happened here in Ireland every self-loathing twit with a boards account would be on here with the "where else but Ireland" shyte.

See? It's not just our politicians who are cnuts!!!

galwayrush

nice1franko wrote: »

See? It's not just our politicians who are cnuts!!!

Yeah, but listening about the relatively small amount of money that's being talked about across the pond compared what seems to be tolerated here, i'd say ours are way bigger cnuts.

Fulton Crown

galwayrush wrote: »

Yeah, but listening about the relatively small amount of money that's being talked about across the pond compared what seems to be tolerated here, i'd say ours are way bigger cnuts.

Wouldn't just comfine it just to politicians...I'd say our Captains of Industry know how to work the system.

Just look at the recent Fas issues..an the union guy who chairs the place is still there.:eek:

had a great spin line though " would be letting down the hard working employees if he were to quit".

Brilliant..some PR fookoo earned the corn for that one.

Saw the various pension arrangements for our "top bankers" in today's Indo..the guys that lost many peoples hard earned cash looked after themselves well.

As did the politicos...until public opinion rumbled them......

Sometimes i wonder if our media are letting us down here...the sort of "Decentskinmanship" that the Dunph rightly refers to...hmmm ?

O'Coonassa

EnterNow wrote: »

Id me more inclined to do it if I was in Irish goverment, seen as they can do anything they want and all the irish seem to want to do about it is go onto Joe Duffy and winge.

Ya and then they all go out and vote for more of the same because "it's our right" :rolleyes:

j1smithy

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Freekin hell ??

House of Commons / House of lords....fiddling the old expenses...hardly paupers them lot.

Closer to home ..councillors taking bribes....politicians alledgly taking back handers.

bankers doing the old pals act..etc etc.

Board members turning a blind eye..........

Is everybody at it ...Huh ?

Is there anybody who does not have some little scam going these days....

For €200 I'll tell you how to get in on the act.

Cash only

Fulton Crown

j1smithy wrote: »

For €200 I'll tell you how to get in on the act.

Cash only

Nice smartass post there horse..only thing I need you to tell me is how to get my shoe out of yore hole...mmm ?

partyatmygaff

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Nice smartass post there horse..only thing I need you to tell me is how to get my shoe in yore hole...mmm(WTF???) ?

Ya durty bastard