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People before profit-are they a viable alternative?

  • 08-02-2011 06:04PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭


    Ive just gotten one of their leaflets-all the things they say they will do sound brilliant but could they actually lead a goverment? do they only have six contested seats available?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    No.

    /thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Phase 1: Collect Underpants
    Phase 2: ?
    Phase 3: People.


    Doesn't exactly have the same ring.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    nudist wrote: »
    Ive just gotten one of their leaflets-all the things they say they will do sound brilliant but could they actually lead a government? do they only have six contested seats available?
    Saying and doing are two completely different things. These guys are in cloud cuckooland when it comes to economic issues, I'd rather give a vote to FF (:mad:) then these donkeys, they'd end up doing less damage to the economy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,845 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    Of course not.

    While many of their proposals might seem good and honourable, here in the real world they just wouldn't work.

    They are mainly there so you can have a protest vote without having to sink to the Shinners.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    They've got Richard Boyd Barret in charge, who has been involved in every single fringe Socialist Ultra-Left Anti-War Anti-Capitalism Anti-Everything movement in Ireland in the last 10 years. Never heard any of his sollutions, just that he's against everything.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭billymitchell


    Lets be honest, there is no alternative!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Their councillors are good at walking in front of cameras and pulling stunts to raise their profile.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    I be the majority of the country would vote for a party that said

    "We will get your house out of negative equity" nobdy likes to admit it but greed is a powerful motivator


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,594 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    I thought they were part of United Left Alilance. So it's that grouping you're asking the question about. Unless People Before Profit fancy themselves top dogs in the group.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    dsmythy wrote: »
    I thought they were part of United Left Alilance. So it's that grouping you're asking the question about. Unless People Before Profit fancy themselves top dogs in the group.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I actually surprised more retarded political groups haven't formed to try and win votes given the current situation. Then again I suppose there's enough of them there already.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    To quote Churchill "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    nudist wrote: »
    Ive just gotten one of their leaflets-all the things they say they will do sound brilliant but could they actually lead a goverment? do they only have six contested seats available?

    It's easy to sound brilliant, being brilliant is the hard part.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Pyridine


    feelingstressed

    Their councillors are good at walking in front of cameras and pulling stunts to raise their profile.

    Yeah not like those other parties like Fianna Fáil or anything......it was a Bertie Ahern interview though wasn't it?? Surely that can't be right.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,797 ✭✭✭karma_


    Sergeant wrote: »
    To quote Churchill "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".

    You can quote Churchill all you like, but the British were smart enough to vote him out of office after the war.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Sergeant wrote: »
    To quote Churchill "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".

    Capitalism rocks :pac:

    The Brits fcuked him out as soon as the war was done.

    Edit: beaten to the boot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭Topper Harley01


    What you fail to understand OP, is that a lot of these lefty lunatic groups originally had their roots in Marxism. Their role is not to implement a better way of living-they are here simply to make life as difficult as possible for the capitalist system.

    Useful idiots, as the Soviets used to call them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Boyd-Barrett wants to nationalise all of the banks and buy up all of the empty houses in Ireland to just give away for free. After that furore about that family getting evicted for not paying their rent for a year, who Boyd-Barrett supported. I guess he doesnt believe that people shouldnt pay rent for these free houses either. He is a loon.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,797 ✭✭✭karma_


    What you fail to understand OP, is that a lot of these lefty lunatic groups originally had their roots in Marxism. Their role is not to implement a better way of living-they are here simply to make life as difficult as possible for the capitalist system.

    Useful idiots, as the Soviets used to call them.

    I bet you dress in black and like telling people what to do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭Topper Harley01


    karma_ wrote: »
    I bet you dress in black and like telling people what to do.

    That is the logic of an imbecile.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    karma_ wrote: »
    I bet you dress in black and like telling people what to do.
    As opposed those who wrap themselves in the red flag and tell people what to do?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,797 ✭✭✭karma_


    That is the logic of an imbecile.

    As opposed to your grand logic that the left were put there to make Capitalism difficult?

    I've seen some moronic things on AH but that took the biscuit.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,797 ✭✭✭karma_


    As opposed those who wrap themselves in the red flag and tell people what to do?

    Fúcks sake, it was a joke, has no one here seen Father Ted?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    That is the logic of an imbecile.

    Do you refer to everyone that offers a different opinion as an imbecile?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    70% tax rate on 100k earners. Ok. What about employers? How manu of these PbP ****tards actually employ a tax paying person? More sense out of my recently departed woof.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    karma_ wrote: »
    Fúcks sake, it was a joke, has no one here seen Father Ted?

    Father Ted is quoted here far too often. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭Topper Harley01


    karma_ wrote: »
    As opposed to your grand logic that the left were put there to make Capitalism difficult?

    I've seen some moronic things on AH but that took the biscuit.

    Perhaps you would like to educate yourself about cultural Marxism before you try to take the intellectual high ground.


    This is from a former KGB propaganda officer-perhaps you know more than him?






  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭cleremy jarkson


    Point 1: To get out of recession we need to reduce the government deficit and adopt a living standard that we as a country can afford.

    Point 2: This is simply too difficult to do and there is no real appetite by anyone for the cuts needed, myself included. As soon as a government tries to implement the cuts we will try to get rid of them and vote in somebody else ad nauseum until the guys abroad lending us money decide to pull the plug and the people of this country, who have decided that they deserve a higher living standard than others around the world simply because they are Irish and not because their country pays it's way in the world, will find that the ATM's have run dry and that their simply is no cash in the country to pay guards, nurses etc and they won't be able to understand how this could be happening because this is Ireland!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,797 ✭✭✭karma_


    Perhaps you would like to educate yourself about cultural Marxism before you try to take the intellectual high ground.


    This is from a former KGB propaganda officer-perhaps you know more than him?





    Intellectual high ground?

    are you fúcking kidding me? This is AH, I think you have mistaken it for politics.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    karma_ wrote: »
    Intellectual high ground?

    are you fúcking kidding me? This is AH, I think you have mistaken it for politics.
    I think quite a lot of people have mistaken it for politics with the amount of political threads being started :rolleyes:


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