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Is Shatter shattered?

  • 19-02-2014 07:38PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭


    Alan Shatter has been stumbling from one faux-pas to the next.
    There was the Mick Wallace affair where he disgraced himself and abused his office by disclosing confidential information, which he had no right to have, in order to score political points.
    He deliberately misrepresented the reporting requirement of GSOC in the bugging affair.
    His appointee as 'Confidential Receiver' has turned out to be no more than a hatchet man when it came to dealing with whistle blowers, (presumably on Shatters instructions).

    Is it not time for him to resign, or to be sacked?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,591 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    An Irish Politician resign? No matter what kind of controversy they're involved in they won't resign.

    They might leave their party feigning disgust with unpopular party decisions in order to further their own career but that's it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    But how will he maintain his impressive property portfolio if he quits?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    He can always fall back on his erotic writing.

    I'm sure being in the Dail has rekindled a few fires.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,615 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Looks a slimy piece of work.
    Not nearly as smart as he thinks he is by the looks of it,I'd drop him just for the positive PR.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    He's s h I ttered.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Brendan is Howlin, he should Ring Michael as Kathleen wants to Lynch, oh look..Hayes Brian!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    They're all collectively a bunch of ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    He was great in TJ Hooker in fairness to the man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    He should be sacked, in any other country he would have been forced to resign ages ago.
    His buddy Callinan (Irelands most dangerous man) should be sacked with him!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    He should be sacked, in any other country he would have been forced to reign ages ago.
    His buddy Callinan (Irelands most dangerous man) should be sacked with him!

    If they make him King, I'm off.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Definitely agree about him being sacked. Disgraceful carry on by this guy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    I've a feeling he knows where quite a few of the FG skeletons are buried and wouldn't be backwards about coming forward with the fact to the leadership that a ministerial position is what keeps him so distracted that he hasn't had the chance to mention it to anyone yet. Can't see him going anywhere tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    AH answer: Shaken and Stirred like an overdone cocktail?
    Politics Forum: too tired to compile this one.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    strobe wrote: »
    I've a feeling he knows where quite a few of the FG skeletons are buried and wouldn't be backwards about coming forward with the fact to the leadership that a ministerial position is what keeps him so distracted that he hasn't had the chance to mention it to anyone yet. Can't see him going anywhere tbh.

    That's ridiculous. You might as well be saying that Gerry Adams knows where quite a few of the Sinn Fein skeletons are buried.
    Oh wait a minute! You might just be on to something there


  • Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    shatter will continue his good work (sarcasim) he is untouchable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    He's a bastard who has single handedly brought the legal profession to his knees, HATE him!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,540 ✭✭✭emo72


    justice is the department that should be above reproach and squeaky clean. its only become murky under shatter. he must go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    An arrogant little prick IMO. Even by Fine Gael standards.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Shatter is Sh1ttered


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    Enda my good man would you mind growing a backbone and telling Alan to fúck off and to take James with him.

    Thank you.

    The People of Ireland.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Shatterhas single-handedly restored my faith in government and the law of the land..............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,615 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Something very fishy going on with this bugging scandal.Shatter is cocky enough to be involved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    The arrogance of him is contempable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Woodville56


    And what of the fate of the Confidential Receiver, shafted & sacked by Shatter, Kenny & Co ???
    He told/ warned the Garda whistleblower that Shatter was mad as hell with him for exposing corruption etc and for this he gets sacked - for stating the obvious !!!! Or am I missing something ??? Or is it because he allowed himself to be recorded and thus caught being truthful ie telling it like it is ??? I'm Totally confused by it all !!
    One thing for sure , as echoed in this discussion already, Kenny, Shatter & Co will continue in their jobs!!
    Three words sums up this so called government in my humble opinion - arrogant & self serving ! Oh, better add a fourth - incompetent !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Merkin wrote: »
    He's a bastard who has single handedly brought the legal profession to his knees, HATE him!

    What on earth is actually happening in his office :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭EazyD


    Official Transcript(Connolly/McCabe):

    "If stuff was to get out into the public, the print media, I tell you something Maurice - and this is just personal advice to you - if Shatter thinks you're screwing him, you're finished."
    "What I'm saying to you is, if stuff is to get into print broadcasting media, if Shatter thinks it's you, or if he thinks that it is told by the Commissioner or the gardaí, here's this guy again trying another route to put you under pressure, he'll go after you," the transcript added.


    (You only have to read this much to realise how big a cnut Shatter really is)


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


    This is Ireland. Our politicians don't resign, they keep the head down for a couple of weeks and then continue as if nothing happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭TheHappyChappy


    Enough corrupt T.D.'s to cover each other in this Govt.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    Have to laugh at Michael martin looking for him to resign. The man that backed Bertie ahern until he's last day in office.

    There isn't one moral bone between the lot of them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    Shatter should resign, end of story. He is not fit for the position he is in and he has shown this on multiple occasions.


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