Brendan Bendar wrote: » Ignored, like... I presume you mean. Behind the scenes.... you’d be familiar with that.Big Square Head calling the shots. :cool:
McMurphy wrote: » Imagine the cheek of people coming into a thread about FG and then discussing the leader of........ FG... Tune in after the break where we rename the thread "Catholicism" and have no discussion about the Pope in it.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Leo,Leo, LV. You do realise nobody even reads your posts these days? The single transferable post to paraphrase Paschal D. The same thing over and over and over again for years on end. Daft tbh.
Bowie wrote: » Unconfirmed or even confirmed whispers in the media coupled with speculation is a world away from a senior minister announcing measures, LV trying to steal the thunder from supposed partners in government. I'd keep him on a need to know. He's obviously out for Leo and nobody else. He seems to be playing hokey cokey, being in or our of the government depending on the news.
Jinglejangle69 wrote: » The budget measures were clear to everyone yesterday. Some leak when the whole country already knew!
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Ignored, like... I presume you mean. Behind the scenes.... you’d be familiar with that. Big Square Head calling the shots. :cool:
McMurphy wrote: » Ok, thanks for the reply Blanch, hopefully it was dealt with appropriately behind the scenes.
blanch152 wrote: » I did report it, couldn't find the post a day later to see what happened, assumed it was deleted, but poster is still posting away merrily, hence my view that it is tolerated.
McMurphy wrote: » Me asking a poster who made a very specific and a potentially serious allegation of racism on the site if he could link to it (in case - yknow, they're spoofing) and if they reported it - as we are encouraged to do is somehow me "preventing the mods from doing their jobs" I think Leo is a first class absolute bell end Brenner, but if someone is being disgustingly racist, I'd be first in line to call it out. I don't recall anyone posting what blanch said, and merely enquired as to what he did when he seen this apparent racism, did he act as we are constantly told to act? - is that an issue for you chief?
Brendan Bendar wrote: » C’mon dude, let the mods handle things, try to let them do their jobs.
blanch152 wrote: » Comical Ali post of the week. Leo is in freefall to 65% approval, 20% ahead of anyone else. Oh, so funny.
McMurphy wrote: » Who did, can you quote it? Did you report it? If you did and it wasn't acted on by a mod, did you pm a mod and ask why not?
blanch152 wrote: » There was someone on here last week who referred to him as the "little Indian" yet I am sure they will claim that there was nothing xenophobic or racist about that. Amazing that is allowed on boards.
markodaly wrote: » Why are you so obsessed with Leo Francie. Honest question. In fact most SF types are obsessed with him. Like here we are in another FG thread, dedicated to FG, even though we have FF and the Greens in Government, with FF being the bigger party and MM as Taoiseach. No threads on them..... Yet, its Leo this, Leo that... I said it before, but there is don't doubt there is a soft unconscious element of xenophobia and homophobia at play on social media and that noise can extend to boards.ie as well. Its all a bit odd that some lads seem so obsessed with the guy.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Leo is in freefall...10points down. What wheeze will he come up with to arrest that. Cue some self aggrandising PR
markodaly wrote: » Why wont you answer the question? Its a simple one. FF and the Greens are also in government, yet it seems some are obsessed with FG and Leo in particular.
markodaly wrote: » Blanch is correct, we have been down this road many times with your fantasy economics and have been embarrassed and torn to shreds of small details and facts that you simply cannot back up or get away from. Repeat the same incorrect statements does not make it true. Of course it does. Even for a one off build, do you think the contractors building the house are doing it for free? What makes you think if a LA or the government tender a build out to a developer they will not do it for a profit? They will of course add their 8-10% to the price, which negates your entire point. As has been repeated a thousand times to you, the only way really the government can build cheaper is using publicly owned land. Other than that there is really very little in the way of getting houses on the cheap.
The developer would give a price including his/her fee.
tobsey wrote: » The argument in the first article relies on using state land that was procured years ago at a cheaper price than that available today. If the state builds on land it has today then the real cost is the current value of the land, rather than what they paid for it. If you could sell the land today for 100k but build a house on it instead then that adds 100k to the cost of the house, even if you bought the land for 50k. The second article is true. It would be better financially in the long term for the state to build instead of supplementing rent. However the state would have to borrow the capital today. We had just stopped borrowing for day to day costs before Covid hit and we have to borrow 30bn extra this year because of it.Given the state has large public debt and a poor record of completing large construction projects on budget, do you really think it’s the right decision to borrow huge amounts more to build social housing? I don’t. Past experience of social housing shows that the costs are far more than construction costs, when further investment is needed in the long term due issues caused by high unemployment, low levels of education and higher crime rates.
Bishop of hope wrote: » That looks dubbed to me.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Keep trying, a chara, you can’t escape reality, you might pull the wool over the eyes of ‘downtrodden and oppressed’ allegedly but you won’t pull the wool overthe eyes of those who get up early.
dundalkfc10 wrote: » Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha This is a FG thread Rent Free
blanch152 wrote: » No, never. The real leadership was behind the scenes. Ted and Storey and the rest of them.
