"Green" policies are destroying this country

Hello McFly is right.

From chancing your arm on the Water Framework Directive you are now wandering off into a fantasy world.

Under the Water Framework Directive the E.U. can no more set the level of excess usage than they can the price to be paid by consumers or apply penalties for none compliance. The European Court of Justice cleared up any notions they may have had on that.

You want to talk about 'problems in communities'? Well go look in your own back yard before you start clambering to criticise the place you left years ago. You want to talk about water pollution? What city are you living in? Lets talk about the situation where you are, and how you are contributing to it, seeing water pollution is your main concern?

lol How am I trying to shut down conversation? I asked you a question, that is what a conversation is about. And this thread is about "Green Policies" not "Yurt!s Hard on for One Off Housing, something that he can do F**k all about anyways". You want to discuss pollution yeah? And how pollution is damaging the Green planet? Well then lets see how the place where you live contributes to it, because it does, so what's your problem in not discussing that huge element of it, and as you put it your penchant for "dancing around" any question that doesn't suit your ridiculous hypocritical narrative?

Yeah goodnight there Yurt! and have a good day tomorrow at what you do for a living in the big bright lights that we can only dream about here in out of control pollution land

It referred to colleagues and peers earlier so Billy no mates by the looks of it

Yea, oddballs send off to the city so as not to embarrass the rest of the family.

lol Nice, that's brilliantly done in how to show yourself up platinum record style

Wow. No wonder then that the "mental health" departments are faring so disastrously if the cream of the "public service" is spewing out doozies like that

There are either sheep or sitka spruce farms on all of our uplands country wide, zero biodiversity because of this. Give me wind farms over this any day.

I hate the greens. Every time they get in near government it costs Me more money. Even though I pay a lot more the place is no greener than it was a few years back. They don't care about the average Joe and whether or not their elderly family members living on a pittance of a pension can heat their homes. They don't seem to care or even realise that the main cause of pollution around Dublin is the fact that whole communities have been priced out of the housing market, forced to live in the far suburbs and surrounding counties and left them with no choice but to drive to work as there is F all public transport for them,(How many of these Greens sat on the planning committees that came up with these ridicuous policies?). They don't even care that China and Russia and India are the ones polluting the world. If they did they would be targeting these countries instead of the ordinary Joe in Ireland. How are the people that vote them in so gullible?

The one off houses depriving villages is a moronic claim. We are part of the village to the point of being known by sight and name. In terms of local businesses we are part of their customer catchment area. I frequent and provide custom to the small businesses in my local village as much as anyone living in it. When I need fuel for the mower, car, It's down the service station, 2-stroke for the strimmer, the same, or the hardware store - which has seen a lot of trade from me. Haircuts, pharmacies, doctors surgery, dentist, banking (A retired manger of the local bank is a neighbour and lives in a one-off he built), Chinese takeaway, spur of the moment grocery shopping, a local earth works contractor. A local farmer for firewood. My kids went through primary and secondary school in the village. School uniforms were purchased locally. They were out with their friends trick-or-treating in the village every halloween. Years of piano lessons with a local lady, who also lives in a one-off.

The sheer gob-smacking ignorance inherent in this prejudice against one-off houses and the total erroneousness of some of the allegations is hard to stomach.