Enda Kenny accuses female TV3 reporter of bullying him.

Stiffler2 wrote: »

I think it's time a poor man was put into power, a poor man who would F**K all the rich / wealthy people in the ass. No more loopholes for the rich & powerful

that's what this kunt tree needs

it'll never happen though until the next revolution.

Michael Moore said it best about America. I don't want to live in a place like this, & I'm not going anywhere.

I'd love to know how many rich people this small country actually has. Its been spoke about a lot, but nobody can come back with a concrete figures (politicians that is). Now, perhaps I am rich because I may (or may not) have more money then your good self. But I don't think we have "super rich" like other countries where the general taxation levels, various levies and so on doesn't take much from them.

This whole "tax the rich" ****e is trotted out when the opposition cant provide anything else of substance. When pushed on it, like in the referendum just gone by people like Vincent Browne, they had no answer.

listermint wrote: »

Okay i see right, so your standing up for the head of a party who back peddled on everything they said in their election manifesto.

No they didn't, they are living up to a lot of what they have said and its not even half way through their term. I'm not saying for one second that they didn't backtrack on some, but what party hasn't in any election across the globe?

He is a creep, his party is a bunch of creeps. The whole lot of them if there was an election in the morning id say you wouldnt get the same result.

They are a government that came in after years of Fianna Fail who screwed this country over. Big time. The country was pretty much bankrupt, and since the election of these "creeps" as you call them things are much better in the grand scheme of things. They are government facing an economic crisis never seen before in this country and we are responding positively in their hands. Nobody is perfect. Mistakes have and will be made. But the creeps are doing a job well done, which could be I agree a job much better done.

Where's there efforts in going after the creators of this mess?

Instead they are busy throwing 70 year old non tax payers into prison.

We as a people were lied to. Get over yourself.

The government is not the Gardai. They are not the Director of Public Prosecutions. Enda Kenny or his party colleagues do not go around charging people with breaking the law, locking people up and so on. If he did, the court would rule the case unconstitutional for a start, the world would go "Wtf?" and the courts, DPP and the Guards would be going "Eh, that's our job?".

In saying that, in their first year in power they put forward a plan to allow them carry out such investigations - which they are powerless under the laws at the moment, which they did not create in the first place. The Irish people rejected it.

Yes its taking a long time for the DPP to do their job, but its a very sensitive matter and its not a walk in the park. Look how hard it is, despite repeated attempts and trials, to get the Quinn Group to co-operate with the banks and the courts?

A number of arrests have been made, but these guys are clearly clever enough to evade being sent to trial because the DPP have not been able to stick anything on them. But, repeated arrests of the same people have happened. The government can not interfere on such cases, it would be improper and illegal to do so. That's not the current governments fault, its out of their hands. Welcome to our democratic system. As of the 1st of July, we have been told that the investigation is "almost complete". We can only hope it brings swift justice.

As for the politicians involved in the scandal - the electorate in their area seem happy to have them re-elected which is their democratic right.

We had someone jailed for six years for corruption the other day. Just an fyi.

paddy147 wrote: »

The story with pictures.

Caught on both TV3 and RTE News cameras too.

Kennys own "servent" actually put him into the flower pot.

Shame that Kenny didnt stay in the flowerpot..then he might actually "grow a set of balls".;):D

Its more than likely that the media rushed over towards Kenny, probably catching him by surprise and resulting in him stumble. If we were in that situation, the majority of us would also stumble. Its easy to loose your footing or balance. I'm sure if I rushed at you all of a sudden you would jump back/aside.

The Daily Mail is not a credible source either, but not that it matters. If the situation was reversed and it was some other issue you felt strongly about such as a story on Sinn Fein or similar, as we have seen in the past, people would immediately claim it was an unreliable source.

The term "assault" if taken literary would be a foolish term. But in the context of the situation, his adviser was right.

paddy147 wrote: »

Speaking of Phil Hogan,I see hes at it again today.

BLOWING MORE TAX PAYERS MONEY


Or the 100 euro household charge that some people caved in to and handed over.

Id say Fine Gael must really love the Irish Daily Mail newspaper right now.;):D

Biggins wrote: »

This gravy train?

Harvard no less!!!

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7988/24363641945307144036161.jpg

...And this is not the full cost!
Not including travel expenses, etc!

I don't see the point in the course, to be fair, and I don't think 9k each to do it is worth it. But going to these courses is very common, sadly, even in local government.

But lets be fair, when you talk about gravy train and Fine Gael.

You have Sinn Fein in the north which had a very big expenses scandal. But apparently, according to their supporters, its different down here. But, down south they managed to spend €50000 on ink alone (no record of how much on paper sadly). They didn't see a problem with it, and Mary Lou blamed the Oireachtas for allowing it to happen! Madness. Sinn Fein TDs also broke the Oireachtas rules by paying activists out of cash claimed for travel expenses. Unspent travel expenses are supposed to be returned to the Oireachtas under rules introduced in 2010. Pearse Doherty put €8,000 worth of unspent travel and accommodation expenses towards hiring part-time party workers. There is a lot more where that came from when it comes to the gravy train and Sinn Fein!

Now maybe not all of the opposition is bad. Perhaps, every party bar the Socialists are just dirty rotten eggs on the gravy train. Sadly not. The socialists are also targeting the travel allowance by using it so they can pay to travel all around the country to the working class (ie charging them) to tell them to break the law and not pay the household tax. The same tax, which unfair in its current format, is to go towards funding the state and helping pay Joe Higgins & Co their big time wage, leaders allowance, expenses, and pension.

Talk about creaming it, but maybe they just misunderstood? After all, according to Joe, its just a "manufactured controversy" and that it was "absolutely justifiable". Yeah Joe, sure no harm in screwing the people you represent and making sure the government comes up with new methods of taxation to help pay your fancy wages! Did I mention the committee perks? Nothing wrong with that, all above board, but nice all the same to walk home with such a big wage. I wonder would the wealth tax apply to his own wage?

I forgot to mention here Biggins that Joe also gave the pre-paid envelopes to campaigners. You know the ones with the harp on em? Yeah, there not supposed to be giving those out either! Another day, another rule broken

So it seems Biggins, every single party in the Dail is on this greavy train!