FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

Sure let's just stick to the old norm sure it's FF/FG god given right to rule forever very small minded way a thinking the north have spoken with new rule and so will the south it maybe a hard pill to swallow but you'll have too

China, South Korea, Taiwan, Norway, Denmark, Germany, even Russia to name but a few.

The harsh reality Blanch is Ireland as you'll know benifited massively from EU membership and is now a net contributior. Despite this, the 80"s was a mess, most of 90"s and Then Boom and we know what happened next.

Ireland has in essence become completely dependent on 10 companies and the corporation Tax generated, all perfectly fine but let's not forget, there is no loyalty from these companies. Intel for example could move in a heart beat, un be known to many people they've made many people redundant over the years, they are currently installing massive equipment which in essence wlll replace potentially 1,000"s of staff. I recall Dell pulling out. Of course there's the seperate cosy deals being done to keep them here but yesterday it was reported the Escro account holding billions possibly owed to the state lost a further €350 million last year.

I'm not going to say every policy was bad, it's how government manages crisis that concerns me and indeed polices that are infact akin to playing Russian Roulette.

It's abundantly clear we've been lucky with low interest rates and I'd argue government were ot brave enough to invest more in infrastructure when they could have, it's equally abundantly clear how exposed we are over the past few months and its frankly, scary.

That's actually extraordinary 😳 WTF

LOL, China, where you have no human rights and people are 're-educated' in camps

ROFL, Russia..... just ROFL!!

South Korea and Taiwan were dictatorships 50 years ago as well, by way and yet, we beat them both in the UN HDI metric.....

Denmark, Germany and Norway were already rich countries 50 years ago... and we beat two of the three in the HDI metric...

They won't make that mistake again

Of course Marko I knew you'd jump on Russia and China mention but a very simple question was asked and answered, just to name a few . This was not a question about human rights records and I do hope your not going to go off topic again 🙄

The UAE as we now know it to be didn't even exist until 1971 and as for those countries that were rich 50 years ago , resources rich perhaps but not economically prosperous.

Had to look up section 44 and my god it makes the response even more farcical

Wasn't it more a case of the return of the power swap. FF and FG were all that many generations had known about and they didn't even really ever bother to look elsewhere, but SF were definitely gaining ground. That election, they just hadn't gained enough ground.

But thanks to FG's blatant croyism and arrogance etc. they helped bolster SF too..

Hilariously FG started last decade telling us all how bad and incompetent FF were, and by the end of the decade they couldn't help themselves (still now) bringing up SF's past at every chance they had to speak, forgetting somehow that everybody is aware of it. They closed out the decade by pairing up with the 'bad and incompetent' and losing thousands of votes to SF. How can FG not see that?

Historically they have been the party to come in when many FF voters have got fed up / need or want a change. I don't think they have ever really been a voice for the people, or why they thought that they would be able to influence votes. Who knows, all of FG's talks about FF being the disappearing party, could be another example of them getting the Irish voters wrong. I feel FG will be the party to dwindle away, the arrogance is far to much for most to accept, and the new power swap could be FF SF. I may be incorrect, but one thing that is abundantly clear, FG don't have a clue which way it will go either.

Go look at the list of legislation from O'Brien's department. Legislation changes the country more than anything else. Pretty much Civics 1.01.