07/12/10 The Budget Day Protest. Are you going?

O'Coonassa · 22-11-2010 09:49PM #1

Now Biffo has said his piece then going forwards there appears to be only one option left open for us to avoid being governed by incompetent fools until next March.

If they stay now their Budget isn't going to pass in a fit. Far too many potential voters for the other parties are dead against it. Really the right thing for the Clowen just to have done was resign and call a snap election. Because of the markets the last thing the country needs is another four months of uncertainty.

There is a protest outside Leinster House on Budget day calling for an immediate election. Some are just planning on marching there Some are actually planning on physically ejecting the Glorious Leaders here.

Does After Hours think it will skive off work for the day and partake in venting some frustration at our political establishment?

Cookie_Monster · 22-11-2010 09:59PM

have fun with that.

I'm off to a "last hurray before the budget" party to get hammered

phasers · 22-11-2010 10:01PM

Does After Hours think it will skive off work for the day

:rolleyes:

Chuchoter · 22-11-2010 10:02PM

Pointless protest is pointless.

Not to mention damaging. Take your student-y misinformed uprising elsewhere, we need to look stable in front of the bond market, not like crazy thugs throwing the government out of their building.

futonic · 22-11-2010 10:02PM

I wont go anyway. Don't really want to embarrass our poor little country anymore than our political/union classes have already.

You want a messy protest like Greece's to be broadcast all around the world. Really useful alright.

amacachi · 22-11-2010 10:02PM

I think I'll go to college, just on the off-chance that I will be able to stay on after the budget.

El_Dangeroso · 22-11-2010 10:07PM

crayolastereo wrote: »

Pointless protest is pointless.

Not to mention damaging. Take your student-y misinformed uprising elsewhere, we need to look stable in front of the bond market, not like crazy thugs throwing the government out of their building.

We won't be going to the bond markets for three years so we can look like what we want. I'm personally going to stop wearing pants.

Cantona's Collars · 22-11-2010 10:07PM

The 7th December? The day before the culchie shopping invasion of the capital.The organisers missed a trick there.

Overheal · 22-11-2010 10:07PM

You can't take December 7th away from Pearl Harbor :eek:

missingtime · 22-11-2010 10:08PM

I foresee misspelled protest signs popping up in the You Laugh You Lose thread.

Chuchoter · 22-11-2010 10:09PM

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

We won't be going to the bond markets for three years so we can look like what we want. I'm personally going to stop wearing pants.

Well I guess it will be 2013 by then so we will all be dead a year.

Do you think Greece benefited from its images of riots? No.

Mrmoe · 22-11-2010 10:13PM

Overheal wrote: »

You can't take December 7th away from Pearl Harbor :eek:

So you are saying we should bomb Japan?:D

futonic · 22-11-2010 10:14PM

crayolastereo wrote: »

Well I guess it will be 2013 by then so we will all be dead a year.

Do you think Greece benefited from its images of riots? No.

Just looked like muppets to be honest. Protesting about not being able to retire in their 50s and loss of various job perks. You can just see it being spun overseas as some public sector protesting about not being 'entitled' to time off work to cash their cheques, or privilege days! Even though I'm pretty sure most of our P.S. wouldn't be anywhere the angry mob, foreign media would still spin it that way.

Please don't go. We've only a little dignity left.

Penn · 22-11-2010 10:18PM

But if we protest on Budget Day, we won't hear whats in the Budget, which means we won't know what we're protesting for.

bobblepuzzle · 22-11-2010 10:21PM

futonic wrote: »

Just looked like muppets to be honest. Protesting about not being able to retire in their 50s and loss of various job perks. You can just see it being spun overseas as some public sector protesting about not being 'entitled' to time off work to cash their cheques, or privilege days! Even though I'm pretty sure most of our P.S. wouldn't be anywhere the angry mob, foreign media would still spin it that way.

Please don't go. We've only a little dignity left.

How could you confuse the French with the Greeks...

They invented gayness!!

Snakeblood · 22-11-2010 10:21PM

O'Coonassa wrote: »

Now Biffo has said his piece then going forwards there appears to be only one option left open for us to avoid being governed by incompetent fools until next March.

If they stay now their Budget isn't going to pass in a fit. Far too many potential voters for the other parties are dead against it. Really the right thing for the Clowen just to have done was resign and call a snap election. Because of the markets the last thing the country needs is another four months of uncertainty.

There is a protest outside Leinster House on Budget day calling for an immediate election. Some are just planning on marching there Some are actually planning on physically ejecting the Glorious Leaders here.

Does After Hours think it will skive off work for the day and partake in venting some frustration at our political establishment?

Isn't there an election in January? Surely we'll get a whole new crowd of incompetent fools before March.

themadchef · 22-11-2010 10:23PM

Now if they had the budget a day later the protest would be wedged, and everyone would bring flasks a tae and hang sangwidges.....

Shame

Absurdum · 22-11-2010 10:25PM

Mrmoe wrote: »

So you are saying we should bomb Japan?:D

Holiday in Hawaii I think

OPENROAD · 22-11-2010 10:27PM

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

We won't be going to the bond markets for three years so we can look like what we want. I'm personally going to stop wearing pants.

Would disagree, the country is still open for business, how do you think violent protests will look on tv around the world, what impact will it have on tourism and prospective foreign direct investment.

Peaceful protest, yes and not just directed at the govt but tds in general, what I want to hear is that they plan on taking wage reductions and reducing benefits for themselves that bring them in line with an economy and country of our size.

O'Coonassa · 22-11-2010 10:31PM

crayolastereo wrote: »

we need to look stable in front of the bond market

So you think having a government until March that can't pass a budget sends the right signals and is going to make us look stable?

Cowen should have called a snap Election. That's what most people were hoping he would do for the good of the country.

Really the best thing for us to do is have one of those colour revolution type events, and then elections in late December or early January. This circus can't be allowed to drag on until March, it oozes uncertainty and sends all the wrong signals.

O'Coonassa · 22-11-2010 10:34PM

Snakeblood wrote: »

Isn't there an election in January? Surely we'll get a whole new crowd of incompetent fools before March.

Sadly not, it's looking like we'll have to wait another four months for that honour

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/march-election-date-thought-likely-482830.html

Unless of course we stand up and do something about it.

darragh16 · 22-11-2010 10:37PM

An event created on facebook has the backing of all major opposition...

El Horseboxo · 22-11-2010 10:42PM

It's that pussy attitude that has allowed this fúcks to get away with everything till now. Let's go out and wreck the shop. Fúck what the world thinks. This country is about as low as it can go.

partyatmygaff · 22-11-2010 10:47PM

El Horseboxo wrote: »

It's that pussy attitude that has allowed this fúcks to get away with everything till now. Let's go out and wreck the shop. Fúck what the world thinks. This country is about as low as it can go.

I guess that'll be the first use for the IMF money; repairing damage by "protestors".

mickydoomsux · 22-11-2010 10:48PM

I love how people, once again, don't understand the situation but feel the need to comment.

There doesn't need to be a vote to 'pass' the budget, not all of it at least. Huge chunks of the cuts/taxes can just be applied regardless. Only certain points of it are going to be voted on. Always been that way.

What we need is a change of government before the 8th to make any difference. Most of the FF budget will get through anyway if that doesn't happen.

coco0981 · 22-11-2010 10:48PM

El Horseboxo wrote: »

It's that pussy attitude that has allowed this fúcks to get away with everything till now. Let's go out and wreck the shop. Fúck what the world thinks. This country is about as low as it can go.

wreck the shop?? And that will acheive what exactly

OPENROAD · 22-11-2010 10:50PM

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I love how people, once again, don't understand the situation but feel the need to comment.

There doesn't need to be a vote to 'pass' the budget, not all of it at least. Huge chunks of the cuts/taxes can just be applied regardless. Only certain points of it are going to be voted on. Always been that way.

What we need is a change of government before the 8th to make any difference. Most of the FF budget will get through anyway if that doesn't happen.

Can't happen, our constitution does not allow for it as far as I know.

mickydoomsux · 22-11-2010 10:53PM

OPENROAD wrote: »

Can't happen, our constitution does not allow for it as far as I know.

You may well be right. FF/IMF/ECB taxes and cuts it is!

El Horseboxo · 22-11-2010 10:54PM

coco1981 wrote: »

wreck the shop?? And that will acheive what exactly

A wrecked shop.

RonMexico · 22-11-2010 10:55PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6A0UM3MAWU

This thread needs some suitable music.

coco0981 · 22-11-2010 10:56PM

El Horseboxo wrote: »

A wrecked shop.

Good answer, crap idea

07/12/10 The Budget Day Protest. Are you going?

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