[Deleted User] wrote: » Because, at least in theory, you'd attract better intentioned people. It'd weed out the chancers and gombeens doing it for the handsome pay/pension and other perks.
Edgware wrote: » Ya Sinn Fein do the average industrial wage and it works out fine ( with the exception of Dessie Ellis and the one in Cork East who reckoned it wasnt enough to keep her in make up)
Eric Cartman wrote: » That craic is all a rouse though, the rest of the money goes to the party, they claim expenses off the party and their posters printed etc.. it works out that they just donate heavily to their party but still live on effectively 60-70k a year
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » It is amusing to see a rabid SF supporter talk about a ‘magic money tree’, given that it is the foundation for many of SFs policies.
Cork Green Party Councillor Lorna Bogue tweetz: Last night my party voted against maternity payments and against a living wage and collective bargaining for precarious workers. I’ve no information on why workers rights weren’t defended by the Green Party. Maternity payments were ‘unconstitutional’ if anyone can shed light on that Workers rights are integral to just transition – we will not reach our climate goals without them. I also can’t shake the intergenerational nature of the harm we have done today. We say we are a party for future generations but we abandoned young families and young workers today. I’ve spent six years defending the Green party – telling people on the doors they wouldn’t repeat the intergenerational harm they inflicted last time. This party has made a liar out of me. A new generation of the young will pay for the failure of the Green Party with their futures.
Shefwedfan wrote: » No need Reducing the wages just means you get the bottom of barrels The voting system is supposed to weed out the chancers
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Reada ‘anti-Semite’ Cronin and Violet-Anne ‘scrounger’ Wynne are certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Bowie wrote: » So that's your view on Eamon Ryan falling asleep, point at the shinners? Seems legit.
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Just shows how gullible people are that some still believe the SF ‘average industrial wage’ guff.
freshpopcorn wrote: » If Mary Lou said in the morning she’d give everybody a Mansion. She’d be believed.
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » Just like your constant ranting about low paid workers. Seems equally legit.
Bowie wrote: » On topic. Not hiding behind rants.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » I don't think anyone is saying he isn't a decent person but he's shown himself to be kinda clueless about things over the years. Remember when he told us all to buy diesels and now we are being hammered for doing just that. Or saying rural people should leave the car at home and just take the (non existent) bus. Yes he put himself up for election and I'm sure he does long hours but he is a Minister on a huge salary and expenses so its not a good look nodding off on the job when those of us on a minimum wage would get our arse handed to us if we did the same thing.
Rodney Bathgate wrote: » They don’t. They claimed to do it but there was well known exceptions and most importantly it was optional and they never officially confirmed who did or did not partake. It was a charade. The ‘policy’ has since been abolished. SF TDs can voluntarily pay a small contribution to the party (the max political donation from a private individual). Plenty of non SF TDs do the same.
Del.Monte wrote: » Have you read the thread? He's been called scum and a dozy bollox amongst other things. And if you think Eamonn Ryan was single handedly behind the diesel campaign you're plain wrong - the switch from petrol to diesel was being pushed throughout Europe as being more environmentally friendly - it was the perceived wisdom of the day.
riddles wrote: » It’s amazing the chap even got elected - never mind leading a party.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Never said he was single handedly behind it but he certainly pushed for it at the time. You seem a bit angry at my post which I think was a fair analysis of the man.
Bannasidhe wrote: » What the hell out be the point of the Soc Dems doing a complete U Turn on everything they campaigned for to agree to a FF/FG led PfG? Might as well just vote for FF/FG if that is what you wanted.
StackSteevens wrote: » That just shows how little you know about the Programme for Government! The draft that they were given by FF/FG offered the two biddies almost every "change" that they had been advocating PLUS the opportunity to negotiate for more to be added. The ONLY thing that they objected to was the fact that most of their agenda was being implemented by the parties that they distrusted, so, as I wrote above they took the cowards' option and ran to the safety of the opposition backbenches where they could moralise, preach, pontificate and virtue signal for the benefit of the gullible for the next 5 years while sharing the leader's allowance between the pair of them and achieving the square root of sweet **ck all for the country and their constituents. By the time that the next election rolls around, both biddies will be in their seventies, so there's more chance of Danny Healy Rae winning the Eurovision Song Contest than there is of them ever being in government. Stephen Donnelly realised what a pair of chancers the two leaderettes were long before I did - and I doff my cap to him for having the balls to walk away from the Soc Dems. Much as I dislike their IRA links, I'd far prefer to vote for Sinn Fein who at least want to be in government than for the two scam artistes and their phony party.
Sour Lemonz wrote: » While Eamon Ryan sleeping during his job is bad, still not as bad as that horrible cretin Danny Healy Rae picking his nose and eating it during Dail session.
Bowie wrote: » It's nice you think there's a real PFG and anything FF/FG say in it is solid.Glad to support the SD's, prouder still when they stated FF/FG was a no go. Pretty sure Eamo was more interested in another pension and a last hurrah than ethics or credibility. Sure he was asleep the other day. Had to wake him for a vote.
StackSteevens wrote: » .... the two biddies....both biddies... ... the two leaderettes ...having the balls to walk away from the Soc Dems. ... two scam artistes and their phony party.
Andrea B. wrote: » Has anyone here criticising the lad for what I understand is a once-off, never suffered from extreme fatigue, due to a personal situation or illness?
