FF TD praises Neary and AIB!

gurramok

Apparently tougher regulation is a bad thing:rolleyes:

And apparently the regulation we had under Neary was a good thing:rolleyes:

Oh, he has shares in AIB

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0421/banks.html

Speaking in the Dáil this afternoon, Deputy O'Keeffe said there was nothing worse than financial over-regulation, which he claimed brought about mischief and blackguarding.

I'll be the first to say I hope this man loses his job in the Dail and is replaced by a competent TD.

fontanalis

If he loses his seat, he is still set for life with the pension he gets. There is no hope.

donkey balls

they played a clip on the last word you could hear o keefe naming all the accounts he has in various banks,un f**king real:mad: just goes to show what contempt these f**kers have for the normal joe soap.
on another note i read in the sindo that lenny reckons the public are now in favour of NAMA,were do they get this info from and if a poll was carried out was it FF members&family that took part.:rolleyes:

rightwingdub

The guys an idiot, he doesn't have a clue, isn't he a millionaire farmer.

ntlbell

"banks were over regulated"

wtf!!!

Tea drinker

donkey balls wrote: »

they played a clip on the last word you could hear o keefe naming all the accounts he has in various banks,un f**king real:mad: just goes to show what contempt these f**kers have for the normal joe soap.
on another note i read in the sindo that lenny reckons the public are now in favour of NAMA,were do they get this info from and if a poll was carried out was it FF members&family that took part.:rolleyes:

Yeah... take 2 of the "sure do you know how hard it is to keep 3 house Pat?"

Starting to look more and more like FF are doing direct extortion now from the taxpayer to ensure their shares etc don't collapse.

Colonel Sanders

Thanks to What Goes Up from The Property Pin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqCBUKvPygc

murphaph

Email to local FF TD asking him for his opinion on O'Keeffe's comments. Suggest you all do the same. FF need to know we are watching them.

doc_17

ned o'keefe for the post of financial regulator!

silverharp

just heard him, he makes Jackie Healy-Rae sound like an intellectual. Where would we be without this pool of talent?

Head The Wall

Silverharp2 wrote: »

just heard him, he makes Jackie Healy-Rae sound like an intellectual. Where would we be without this pool of talent?

He was shouting in the Dail two weeks ago saying we didn't need foreigners in here telling us how to do things.

I would guess he is a racist/IRA supporter

bamboozle

what an idiot, years from now our grandchildren will be asking us why Neary did nothing he was paid to do and was paid off with a huge pension. In my opinion there are fewer people more responsible than Neary for the banking crisis.

murphaph

bamboozle wrote: »

what an idiot, years from now our grandchildren will be asking us why Neary did nothing he was paid to do and was paid off with a huge pension. In my opinion there are fewer people more responsible than Neary for the banking crisis.

Agree and disagree. Neary was symptomatic of the "ah shur'n it'll do" attitude of the average Paddy (compared to the stickler for the rules attitude of the average German). Ned O'Keeffe can be removed from office any time the people of his constituency want to. If we vote these morons in, who is really to blame? The greedy, snout in the trough (but intellectually deficient) TD, or the electorate? I suggest the root cause of all our problems lies with a far too forgiving electorate.

How many people will email their FF TD to express anger at O'Keeffe's comments? Few.

Liam Byrne

murphaph wrote: »

How many people will email their FF TD to express anger at O'Keeffe's comments? Few.

It's so blatantly obvious that this is unacceptable that emailing their colleagues that it's unacceptable should not be required.

Of course, that's the real world; somewhere FF abandoned about 8 years ago.

Roll on 2012!

alias141282

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/facepalm.jpg

murphaph

Liam Byrne wrote: »

It's so blatantly obvious that this is unacceptable that emailing their colleagues that it's unacceptable should not be required.

Of course, that's the real world; somewhere FF abandoned about 8 years ago.

Roll on 2012!

If nobody emails, TDs think nobody cares Liam. I'm sick and tired of people (not you, just in general) who don't vote and don't contact their TD with their concerns (not about potholes, ring the council roads dept for potholes etc!) moaning about the state of the country to each other. Do these people think countries like the UK and Germany developed a mature, relatively clean political system overnight? Of course not, the people forced it by ensuring the politicians in those countries knew they were being watched. If this comment was made by a Labour MP, there's a good chance the party would force him to resign....why is that? It's because they FEAR the electorate. Politicians in Ireland don't because the likes of this O'Keeffe chap will likely be voted in by his sheep constituents. Time to make your voice heard, not just sitting by until 2012 waiting for an election when FF get booted out not even knowing what for.

kuntboy

murphaph wrote: »

Ned O'Keeffe can be removed from office any time the people of his constituency want to. If we vote these morons in, who is really to blame? The greedy, snout in the trough (but intellectually deficient) TD, or the electorate?

Not true, only at election time, and the alternatives are just as bad. So we aren't really to blame, we merely observe helplessly.

murphaph

kuntboy wrote: »

Not true, only at election time, and the alternatives are just as bad. So we aren't really to blame, we merely observe helplessly.

The fatal error is in bold. You must vote in the other candidate, even if he is "just as bad" as he will see the one being voted out and question himself "why did they boot that guy out?, perhaps I better up my game to try and stay in." It's the only way to achieve an improvement in the behaviour of these goons. They only understand elections, that must change.

Liam Byrne

murphaph wrote: »

If nobody emails, TDs think nobody cares Liam.

I understand that, but that's a reflection on the inability of the TD to take into account what's being said in general, or to do any research related to his/her job.

Anyone with half a brain would realise that the current mood in the country is down to incompetence and corruption, and - even if they weren't ethical enough to help prevent it in the first place like they should have - should react now.

Of course, that would be in an ideal world where TDs realise that they are our employees, and not a law onto themselves.

I live in hope!

bonzos

Pat Neary was entitled not to do his job! Now get back to work and pay your taxes...this is Ireland!!

donkey balls

ah ffs lads my local TD is lendahand lenehan sure he thinks the majority of the public are behind nama:rolleyes:i can only imagine the response i would get back if i e-mailed him my concerns over o keefe.
btw a certain person on boards e-mailed his local ff td and ended up getting spam e-mail i dont want those f**ks e-mailing me.

kuntboy

murphaph wrote: »

The fatal error is in bold. You must vote in the other candidate, even if he is "just as bad" as he will see the one being voted out and question himself "why did they boot that guy out?, perhaps I better up my game to try and stay in." It's the only way to achieve an improvement in the behaviour of these goons. They only understand elections, that must change.

But often they don't change and the system and all its vested interests constrain what they can really do. A benevolent dictatorship is what's needed, but that would never be accepted and would have its own problems. There really is no perfect system, and the one we have is as near as we're ever going to get unfortunately.