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Working Persons political Party ??

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    #32
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    we done this recently, under austerity, and strangely enough, our critical public services got worse!
    We didn't really though.

    I am just saying we didn't spend it any better and we didn't keep it the same or see it cut ..we cut it drastically. It wasn't a normal cut.

    Now having said that we do need to invest more in public services long term not less.

    Its only now spending has recovered in the public sector from the crash.


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    #33
    Vote4Napoleon
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Vote4Napoleon


    road_high wrote:
    But he was an inarticulate buffoon tbh. What’s needed is pro work sensible politicians


    And what have the articulate politicians done for us ever really


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    #34
    Roger_007
    Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    If only we lived in a country where we could freely elect politicians who represented our views or where we could stand for election ourselves if there was no one else standing who represented our views.
    Alas, we are 'forced' to vote for people who don't really represent us and we spend all our time whinging about those whom we elected until the next election comes around and then we vote for the same people again.
    Why do we keep doing this? Is it because, fundamentally, we love whinging and having scapegoats to blame for our collective failings.
    I think that's it; we prefer to elect people who make ridiculous promises and when they inevitably don't deliver we use them as scapegoats. Anyone with genuine leadership abilities wouldn't have a hope of getting elected and therefore wouldn't even stand.

    (Am I a cynic? Yes, of course).


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    #35
    Bdjsjsjs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 82 ✭✭Bdjsjsjs


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    There’s a weird thing where the men (always men) who understand politics and society the least are the ones who seem to spend most of their time discussing it on the internet.

    Well it's a case that the internet gives people an alternative voice, a voice outside the establishment media. Some don't like that.


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    #36
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,815 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Roger_007 wrote:
    (Am I a cynic? Yes, of course).


    Ah politics is a messy game, we don't actually really know how to solve many of our critical issues, many of which are common, globally


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