Tánaiste Moany Burton: IW protesters 'seem to have extremely expensive phones'

Young Blood

mickydoomsux wrote: »

So basically the Brits are all to blame for this or something?

No your mother is.

DeadHand

Young Blood wrote: »

I'm going to assume that you're from an Irish Catholic background, as are most irish people.

If it wasn't for protesters like this, people like you would still be picking potatoes in some field.

It doesn't hurt to show some solidarity.

It's a charge on an essential service, not the penal laws.

These protesters will make zero difference and end up paying the charge anyway.

Daniel O'Connell they ain't.

Lucy and Harry

We should all be living on ww2 rations and food stamps according to this woman
http://www.breakingnews.ie/media/images/z/zzzjoanburtonasmaryantoinetteCREDITAreamanProductions_large.jpg :mad::mad::mad:

DubVelo

Why is this woman popular!?

DeadHand

DubVelo wrote: »

Why is this woman popular!?

Lack of alternatives.

mickydoomsux

DubVelo wrote: »

Why is this woman popular!?

Cause she fine

Summer wind

Who paid for Joan's phone?

Mrs Garth Brooks

Summer wind wrote: »

Who paid for Joan's phone?

The tax payer did. What a crow.

DeadHand

Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »

The tax payer did. What a crow.

The taxpayer probably paid for most of the water protester's phones too.

namloc1980

Are we saying even the poor cannot aspire beyond a Nokia 6510.....for shame.

folan

DeadHand wrote: »

The taxpayer probably paid for most of the water protester's phones too.

That "the taxpayer" lad is great. Buys loads of people sky sports too.

Always has probably near his name too.

Lord Trollington

Genuinely if I got near Joan Burton or Enda Kenny I think they'd need a JCB to dig me out of them. Particularly Burton.

Politics in Ireland is absolutely rotten to the core at every level. I'm beginning to despise this state I live in.

The only one I may have some time for would be Leo Varadkar for nothing other than he seems the most genuine.

Gatling

folan wrote: »

That "the taxpayer" lad is great. Buys loads of people sky sports .

And don't forget

Air max runners

Track suits

And going by the protest videos dodgy knock off sunglasses too

Caps

And there cases of Dutch gold

DeadHand

folan wrote: »

That "the taxpayer" lad is great. Buys loads of people sky sports too.

Always has probably near his name too.

Was that bad poetry or are you trying to make a point?

namloc1980

Lord Trollington wrote: »

Genuinely if I got near Joan Burton or Enda Kenny I think they'd need a JCB to dig me out of them. Particularly Burton.

Politics in Ireland is absolutely rotten to the core at every level. I'm beginning to despise this state I live in.

The only one I may have some time for would be Leo Varadkar for nothing other than he seems the most genuine.

To be fair at least we know reasonably well what FG stand for. Labour are just a farce at this stage. They are basically the party that says "the poor should know their place". And they are supposed to be the "Labour" Party!!

mickydoomsux

Lord Trollington wrote: »

Genuinely if I got near Joan Burton or Enda Kenny I think they'd need a JCB to dig me out of them. Particularly Burton.

Sexy stuff

DoYouEvenLift

Wonder how many of the people using their phones and tablets to record are committing the crime of vertical filming.

smellmepower

Another attempt to get people picking on each other instead of the government, who've made a balls of all this Irish Water stuff. It's worked too, judging by all the moronic posts in this thread.

The usual ignorant twats slagging off the unemployed with the same factually untrue BS and tired jokes, and then the eejits who do more harm than good for their anti-water charges agenda, by posting some amount of toe-curlingly awful drivel.

_Brian

Young Blood wrote: »

The point I'm trying to make is that we stand to benefit from the sacrifices these people are making like we have done in the past.

These people are of no benefit to me nor to lots of people who already pay for water and sewage... In fact they are wasting Gardaand court time which I am paying for with my taxes so they are just another problem as far as I'm concerned.

mada999

TheDoctor wrote: »

Have Sinn Fein found the magical money tree yet that will finance their fantasy land finance policies?

I love this stuff that people bring out about parties and their experience with finances and laws

Sure but cant they not just use the same advisers that the govt currently uses? The govt are hardly made up of specilists like economists etc, if I'm not mistaken a lot of the govt are teachers etc, they hardly come up with these laws and schemes on their own do they? They hire consultants to help with this, why can't any party do this ?

Richard Hillman

mada999 wrote: »

I love this stuff that people bring out about parties and their experience with finances and laws

Sure but cant they not just use the same advisers that the govt currently uses? The govt are hardly made up of specilists like economists etc, if I'm not mistaken a lot of the govt are teachers etc, they hardly come up with these laws and schemes on their own do they? They hire consultants to help with this, why can't any party do this ?

Along the lines of what the great Malcolm Tucker once said, find an expert that tells you what you want to hear.

The far-left are always at this. You would often see the left alliance find some mad-cap "economist" (that may have done a little Economics in college) pedal stuff that sounds good for them.

efb

She does have a valid point. It's not Can't Pay for a lot of people it's Won't Pay

renegademaster

efb wrote: »

She does have a valid point. It's not Can't Pay for a lot of people it's Won't Pay

just LOL!! this has worn thin at this stage

KomradeBishop

BarryLyndon wrote: »

Economics 101?

If you'd stayed around for Economics 102, you might have learned about how lower tax rates can in theory stimulate demand and raise revenue elsewhere (thereby offsetting cost of lower tax revenue from tax cuts).

Which by the same logic, so can increased spending - they are both just forms of widening the budget deficit - which makes calling for welfare cuts (money we know goes directly back into the economy), and replacing welfare with tax cuts, inherently self-defeating. Especially when you plan to add money spent on job creation to this, and expect to reduce the public debt.

Fairytale stuff. I may be for increased spending/decreased-taxes-on-high-spenders in the short term, but I don't pretend it will lead to any reduction in the deficit or public debt.

ChippingSodbury

Lord Trollington wrote: »

Genuinely if I got near Joan Burton or Enda Kenny I think they'd need a JCB to dig me out of them. Particularly Burton.

Any chance you're that same guy that, when asked where he wanted to be buried, replied "up to the balls in Bibi Baskin"???

Gatling

renegademaster wrote: »

just LOL!! this has worn thin at this stage

A bit like gardai brutalising innocent sunglasses wearing protesters

Streetwalker

efb wrote: »

She does have a valid point. It's not Can't Pay for a lot of people it's Won't Pay

Scarlet for ya

Streetwalker

TheDoctor wrote: »

Have Sinn Fein found the magical money tree yet that will finance their fantasy land finance policies?

Any news on that "game changer" or how about the "not one more red cent" stuff?

Gatling

Streetwalker wrote: »

Any news on that "game changer" or how about the "not one more red cent" stuff?

They announced Adams and Co would all be paying there water charges aswell as there spokespeople

efb

Like they voted in the North for household charges