Is Shatter shattered?

catallus wrote: »

It is another sad indictment of our media (and this whole furore is a media-instigated rousing of rabble, promoted by the treasonous Fianna Fail party) that such important issues are used as political weapons. Micheal Martin and all members of the FF party should be banned from television, radio, print media and internet, and indeed the party should be dis-established.

Banning opposition political parties...how cute..sounds like you're in the Duffyite wing of FG!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin_O%27Duffy

catallus wrote: »

Well, when they add nothing to political debate except sniping populist crap like the stuff that the traitourous Martin comes out with, then yeah, they deserve to be dissolved.

A country where the opposition have no political voice:eek:

This country may have its flaws. But we're not due to go down the N.K route just yet.

If we didn't have opposition parties keeping the others in check (even with 'populist blether') we'd be mere puppets/customers of our political masters.

Sheesh.

catallus wrote: »

It is another sad indictment of our media (and this whole furore is a media-instigated rousing of rabble, promoted by the treasonous Fianna Fail party) that such important issues are used as political weapons.

That whole debate was a joke, a beautiful smokescreen for FG and Labour. You have Adams claiming to be worried about the protection of the whistleblower. I mean come on, SF concerned about the welfare of the Irish police and whistleblowers, don't make me laugh. You have Mick Wallace screaming (literally) knee-jerk nonsense across the chamber at Shatter. It was a complete embarrassment and one can only sigh when you think that we that taxpayer pay these people €100,000 plus per annum when you take all the extras into account.

catallus wrote: »

Micheal Martin and all members of the FF party should be banned from television, radio, print media and internet, and indeed the party should be dis-established.

Would you like to ban opposition altogether? I have no time for FF but your remarks, treasonous LOL, wreak of the tabloid media and the cheap left wing politics that makes up the rest of the opposition with the exception of FF.

Shatter will see this episode through and it will all be forgotten about in a week or so.

renegademaster wrote: »

sure why would any decent opposition or possible leader make the right moves if they think the Irish people don't give a ****, we not only encourage corruption by doing but worse still we leave the brave exposed to be picked off by the corrupt and the endless circle continues

The majority of the Irish public are not interested in the truth politics and they are still not mature enough to accept it. Shallow, tabloid style politics where the 'goberment' is to blame for all their, self inflicted, woes suits them and that is not going to change for the foreseeable future. Politicians of questionable ethics, who shout and roar at the opposition, as opposed to someone who will provide a well structured argument based on fact, are the choice of the masses when it comes to politicians.

They also love a good celebrity too. If there was an election tomorrow and the winner of "I'm a celebrity" went up against an academic or businessman with a proven track record, you know that the celebrity would win and the businessperson/academic would be scorned as "elitist" by the majority of the masses.