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PHIL HOGAN NEEDS TO RESIGN.

Mrcaramelchoc

I for one want him gone.

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Edgware

landofthetree wrote: »

He is an excellent commissioner. He should stay.

If he resigns does that mean he will want his old village idiot job back. There's a quque of people in Kilkenny on that list. He cant just barge in and take it

Gods Gift

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Has Leo made any comments yet?

To paraphrase love actually. I’m just a boy standing in front of a commissioner, asking him to resign.

Limpy

The Oligarchs in the EU wont want the apple cart upset. The trough will be kept open for Hogan. If he Broke quarantine then maybe he will come under pressure. Hopefully he falls on his trotters.

Gods Gift

I’m still trying to get over the Moroccan ambassador been there. Probably the best Moroccan ambassador ever. What was he thinking.

Edgware

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Has Leo made any comments yet?

Probably gone off shopping for shoes

landofthetree

He is an excellent commissioner. He should stay.

Insect Overlord

John 8:7

Plumbthedepths

Has Leo made any comments yet?

Imhof Tank

Didnt he resign before when junior minister department of finance in the Rainbow, leaked the budget and did the honorable thing IIRC

Gentleman Off The Pitch

Big Phil, too big to fall

thebronze14

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Could the Irish government recall him like an ambassador and send a replacement. I dont see this happening either.

I vote for an inanimate carbon rod

artanevilla

The Teflon Don.

silver2020

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

He'll hold onto his pension though. In my mind all these guys should have their pensions removed and told to go swing.

ec-president-vdl@ec.europa.eu

That's Hogan's bosses email contact. Let them know how you feel about this. I have emailed them this morning.

oh ffs, the covid police are at it again.

Your email will go immediately into the trash bin where it belongs.

Seamai

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

He'll hold onto his pension though. In my mind all these guys should have their pensions removed and told to go swing.

ec-president-vdl@ec.europa.eu

That's Hogan's bosses email contact. Let them know how you feel about this. I have emailed them this morning.

Done.

Peregrinus

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Could the Irish government recall him like an ambassador and send a replacement. I dont see this happening either.

No, they can't. They didn't appoint him. He doesn't represent them. His official connection with the Irish state is zero - none at all.

skooterblue2

Peregrinus wrote: »

Although European Commissioners are nominated by Member State governments, they are not appointed by them and they cannot dismissed by them. The Commission as a whole can be dismissed by the Parliament, but I don't think the Parliament has the power to dismiss invidual Comissioners. It could, I suppose, threaten to dismiss the entire Commission if an individual Commissioner did niot resign.

Hogan's attendance at this dinner won't even be a blip in the news cycle outside Ireland, and it won't bother the Commission or the Parliament. It has nothing at all to do with his job as Commissioner with responsiblity for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Could the Irish government recall him like an ambassador and send a replacement. I dont see this happening either.

Gerry Hatrick

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/08/20/world/europe/20reuters-health-coronavirus-ireland.html

#sackphilhogan

Peregrinus

Although European Commissioners are nominated by Member State governments, they are not appointed by them and they cannot dismissed by them. The Commission as a whole can be dismissed by the Parliament, but I don't think the Parliament has the power to dismiss invidual Comissioners. It could, I suppose, threaten to dismiss the entire Commission if an individual Commissioner did niot resign.

I don't know whether the President of the Commission can fire an individual Commissioner, but she could certainly request him to resign. And she could effectively force him to resign by reallocating portfolios within the Commission so that he had nothing to do.

But none of this really matters. The only reason we notice Hogan's transgression is because he is Irish, and it happened here. When was the last time you heard about a personal transgression of another European Commissioner that had nothing to do with the discharge of his functions? Hogan's attendance at this dinner won't even be a blip in the news cycle outside Ireland, and it won't bother the Commission or the Parliament. It has nothing at all to do with his job as Commissioner with responsiblity for Agriculture and Rural Development.

skooterblue2

gmisk wrote: »

No chance he will style it out imo....the big head on him he thinks he is untouchable

He has gotten this far in life with that method, I can see him sticking it out.

ethical

Big Phil,The arrogant untouchable wont go,there are many of his ilk in Irish Society,look at the ETBs for instance,"lads" "retired " for 30 years and still on the gravy train...UNTOUCHABLES in a GOLDEN CIRCLE,but how dare you tell them this or your career will stall and go nowhere while they get the cream.

Its time all these BSTARDS were rooted out of Irish Society!

gmisk

No chance he will style it out imo....the big head on him he thinks he is untouchable

Mrcaramelchoc

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

He'll hold onto his pension though. In my mind all these guys should have their pensions removed and told to go swing.

ec-president-vdl@ec.europa.eu

That's Hogan's bosses email contact. Let them know how you feel about this. I have emailed them this morning.

Brilliant i will be doing exactly that.

Gerry Hatrick

He'll hold onto his pension though. In my mind all these guys should have their pensions removed and told to go swing.

ec-president-vdl@ec.europa.eu

That's Hogan's bosses email contact. Let them know how you feel about this. I have emailed them this morning.

For Forks Sake

I wouldn't want to be the unfortunate person tasked with asking him to consider his position

[Deleted User]

I would imagine that will be down to his boss. He'll brazen it out if he can

stoneill

I agee!