Fuel Protest (Read MOD NOTE on first post)

Look up a singer called Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq on youtube

I'm currently in the UK at the moment visiting family. Heading back on the ferry on Saturday. It's probably best that I have the car filled with diesel before I back to Dublin..

How long before it all goes Mad Max outside?

Mad max is a state of mind....some can hack it, some can't!

I think we are only a couple of days away from people cracking open each others heads and feasting on the goo inside tbh!

Any minute now .
A few auld tractors and trucks parked strategically for two days is all it takes to bring the country to its knees .How can filling stations be out of supplies that quickly ?

Tomorrow if demands are not met

This situation have caused me to think I don't feel very Irish anymore. All the hate, the bullshit, the nonsense of the past few days, that's not me.

I always thought our country, even though it certainly has problems, wasn't too bad. But I don't feel the situation we are now in will get resolved any time soon - the protesters are very entrenched, the government seem unable to respond. Also this is very different than a trade union protest, it's a social media, peer to peer type movement. Who does the government negotiate with and how can they ballot their members?

Hopefully I'm overthinking things but I do worry that this is a watershed movement and the beginning of serious divisions in this country like what has happened in the US.

He has quite the rap sheet in fact, assaulting a man in a bar, causing damage to a house and a car, trespass, handling a stolen tractor...tis a fair old list. And he has a podcast! The mind boggles

Honestly, it may well be but it's very easy to overstate and to overthink these things, particularly in the heat of the moment.

It's true to say that the downfalls of various regimes, most notably ancien regime France, began with protests over the cost of living. I probably had similar worries during the Brexit years here in the UK, historically a very stable and pragmatic country. These things tend to pass though it's hard to feel too sanguine. We're told consistently that we live in wealthy nations and yet we see the constant erosion of the social contract, widening inequality, tax avoidance, climate change, mass spreading of misinformation by tech oligarchs, corruption, crumbling infrastructure, collapsing birth rates, etc..

All this has created very fertile ground for an endless array of grifters to exploit for their own agendas.

I'm inclined to be optimistic. Ireland has come through hard times before with regards to inflation, mass emigration and the cost of living. It does disgust me to see so many volunteer quislings pushing foreign agendas though. Thankfully, they're in a minority.

That example from the UK is an almost carbon copy of what going on now. Mad to think more than a week without fuel would result in absolute chaos.

Most of the cost of fuel is tax.

The government could slash the cost of fuel if they wanted to.

These clowns according to newstalk are saying their staying until they meet Simon Harris, the carbon tax is removed and fuel capped.

You can't negotiate with these lads when they say one thing the other day and now this.

Heads in the sand these lads