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Coalition with Labour Bad for Jobs

  • 24-02-2011 8:47pm
    #1
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if there is a FG/Lab coalition will it be bad for the economy ?
    My thinking is that a government in the current climate needs to make hard decisions and if there was a fg/lab they would be a lot of differences of opinion so we end up with diluted policies and ineffective government


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  • #2
    RetroBate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭RetroBate


    Whatever the election result we are getting a coalition.

    The only thing to be voted on is who goes into coalition with the IMF/ECB.


  • #3
    De Dannan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭De Dannan


    If Labour plan to raise taxes instead of cutting public service pay and benefits then yes it will be very bad for jobs


  • #4
    bluecatmorgana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭bluecatmorgana


    I'm hoping most of the economic cuts etc will be influenced by fg with Labour softening some issues like education, stag hunting etc.
    But who am I kidding, its gonna be FG and independents.


  • #5
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    bluecatmorgana wrote: »
    I'm hoping most of the economic cuts etc will be influenced by fg with Labour softening some issues like education, stag hunting etc.
    But who am I kidding, its gonna be FG and independents.

    Where local issues will hold up major national decision making.


  • #6
    micro_dot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭micro_dot


    De Dannan wrote: »
    If Labour plan to raise taxes instead of cutting public service pay and benefits then yes it will be very bad for jobs
    That's effectively twiddling around the edges of a massive national debt.
    None of the parties are going to deal with the banking debt, except for the crowd that might hold an illegal weapon to the IMF, you know they might just do it.
    Only a strong leadership will do, where the leader gets his picture take with Angela Merkel, are we that stupid that a picture will sort the debt out?


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  • #7
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    De Dannan wrote: »
    If Labour plan to raise taxes instead of cutting public service pay and benefits then yes it will be very bad for jobs

    A downward review of rents for businesses and a strategic investment bank that will actually lend to SME's will be terrible for jobs.


  • #8
    Asis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Asis


    30,000 gone from the public service, job losses from mass privatisation, Graduate Tax... FG the party of emigration, more like?


  • #9
    timothybryce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭timothybryce


    How could I hurt labour the hardest with my vote, would I have to vote FF as there clostest to them in the poles?

    I'm in Limerick.


  • #10
    Black Bloc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Black Bloc


    De Dannan wrote: »
    If Labour plan to raise taxes instead of cutting public service pay and benefits then yes it will be very bad for jobs

    That is Labour policy. Lashings of cash for those in receipt ('in need') of the highest levels of welfare and SFA for anyone in the private sector. Please explain to em why anyone should have their welfare benefits tied to the number of children they have. I couldn't give an increment to every employee who decided to have an extra child but the welfare system does exactly that. It is a total socialist nonsense paid for by the real economy. Of course Labour approves.


  • #11
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    RetroBate wrote: »
    Whatever the election result we are getting a coalition.

    The only thing to be voted on is who goes into coalition with the IMF/ECB.

    Thats true I guess. I dont fancy sending Joan Burton to negotiate with the IMF !


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  • #12
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,385 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    A downward review of rents for businesses and a strategic investment bank that will actually lend to SME's will be terrible for jobs.

    Do we actually need another Bank- Labour have been very vague on how it is to be funded and operated? And perhaps there is a good reason that the existing banks are not lending to many SMEs? Alot of them are on the verge of closing and having access to credit will not save them.


  • #13
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Do we actually need another Bank- Labour have been very vague on how it is to be funded and operated? And perhaps there is a good reason that the existing banks are not lending to many SMEs? Alot of them are on the verge of closing and having access to credit will not save them.

    Labours policy on the banks seems to be the worst out there. The banking systems here needs to be downsized and sold or ammalgamated not create another bank


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