PlaneSpeeking wrote: » Easy to hide behind a press release and at best agree with the actions and at worse - and more likely - be behind it.
NIMAN wrote: » If the Gov are doing such a terrible job and everyone things this protestors are right, why aren't the Gov getting voted out? Simple answer, because the housing crisis isn't a crisis to vast majority of the population?
joe swanson wrote: » Interesting that those politicians who usually have so much to say about Garda related issues are being very quiet in relation to these disgusting threats . Would be interested to hear if the likes of Daly and Wallace condemn those partaking .
Phoebas wrote: » Don't know about those two, but Paul Murphy TD said that the Gardai on duty were 'terrorists'. Shocking thing for a TD to come out with.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Murphy is a vile little man. A professional socialist, he agitates the crowd, then wanders back to leafy south Dublin in the evening to fantasise about how it’s the first step on the road to revolution. He’s a blight on the political landscape.
sexmag wrote: » Any link to confirm this?
Captain Obvious wrote: » Himself and Brid Smith are nothing more than populists with no underlying principles.
psinno wrote: » Google gives mehttps://twitter.com/paulmurphy_TD/status/1039595867131527168 "Outrageous terrorism by Gardai and private security in balaclavas against peaceful protesters. Their crime? Occupying an empty building to highlight the housing crisis. The real criminals are the landlords sitting on empty properties while we have 10,000 homeless."
sexmag wrote: » Also is he actually calling them terrorists or can someone organised terrorism without being a terrorist?
davo10 wrote: » This from a man child who thought trapping two women in a car was striking a blow for the cause.
dav3 wrote: » Phew, just as well we've had a right-wing government for the past 50 years. Imagine if we'd had a left-wing government with all their fancy "rights". With the behaviour of the right-wing governments towards the working class, it's no wonder this country has been swinging more and more left over the past half century. Currently the government are sticking their fingers in their ears with the hope that the housing and health crises will just go away.
fxotoole wrote: » Likewise for Rich Brat-Boy Barrett
knipex wrote: » We had a right wing government for the last 10 years ???
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Ah, old Richie BB isn’t half as bad as Murphy. Like his politics are unworkable nonsense of course, but you get the feeling he actually cares. Murphy is a complete toolbox.
dav3 wrote: » Yes. If you're pining for a far-right government, may I suggest moving to some sh*thole village in Eastern Europe or the American Deep South.
knipex wrote: » an even more evil manifestation)
Berserker wrote: » Watched Smith on Claire B. last night and she loved the attention. A stint in power would be the best thing that could happen with this lot. Put SF/PBP and the rest of the hard left in charge for a while. That'd be the death of them all. They'd run scared if push came to shove though. We saw this with SF last time round.
knipex wrote: » Ohhhh what an argument, what a critical and demonstrative point.. When did I say I was asking for a far right government ?? I was merely pointing out that by any rational measurement that the current government, nor indeed any government for the last 25+ years could not be described as right wing. They are at a push centrist. And if you actually went beyond the hyperbole and nonsense and looked at what I actually said I called the hard right . But why let facts get in the way of misguided opinion. Or have you an actual counter point to anything I said ?? Edit Oh and seeing as you brought it up.. You might be interested in a trip yourself.. I hear Venezuela and Cuba have cheap property right now, especially if you have those nasty right wing Euro's.
A SENIOR Fine Gael Minister has claimed that RTÉ has a bias towards political parties that are centre-left and have liberal views. Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar said the national broadcaster's tendency to favour such parties might be innocent and unintentional but it was there nonetheless. Mr Varadkar told The Irish Times this bias was most obvious in the station's coverage of American politics. I do not carry any candle for the Republican Party and will not be supporting them. But with RTÉ, this is when it is most obvious. Republicans are bad and Democrats are good."It is also there in its domestic coverage. There is a bias towards centre-left parties and liberal views."
Minister Paschal Donohoe, who spoke tonight about topics ranging from his love of U2 (in the context of Brexit, of course) to his disdain for left-wing politics.In a speech, the Fine Gael minister strongly criticised left-wing politics, which, he said, would "break this country".
dav3 wrote: » Whether you like it or not, and it appears not. Every issue you have with housing, with homelessness, with health, with taxation throughout your life, have been brought about by decisions made by consecutive right-wing governments.
knipex wrote: » So we have a right wing Healthcare system ? Social welfare system ? Taxation policy ? And I have been brainwashed by hard right propaganda ? You need to get out more.. FG are a centrist party, at worst. FF are probably slightly more left, labor slightly more. Sinn Fein are a weird brand of revolutionary populist socialism but certainly further left and then you have the Trotskyites and nutjobs..(who while screaming for wealth taxes seem to do anything to fight them) Ireland does not have a mainstream right wing party. Renua tried and failed, and the new Ire exit party will (hopefully) go the same way.. We have had government after government that has spent, spent and spent. I hoped FG would show sense but all the talk leads to nothing except the slow erosion of the most efficient tax we had.. USC..
