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Re: Ireland's PM talks to his people
You mean to say he didn't?
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Re: Ireland's PM talks to his people
Easy up there lads. Enda is ..... sorry, I'm kind stuck for adjectives here. A real cool lethal, politician, hell bent on getting power, keeping power and ... That's about it. The Irish government is a collective, democratically elected dictatorship. Recognise any folk you know? The Dáil (the Irish lower house) cannot hold its executive (our government) to account. The government has an absolute control on parliamentary business: period, as in full stop. It can, and will ram through, any legislation it needs to. In fact its a lot worse than that.
Modern political parties in Westminster style democracies (I use the term democracy very carefully here) and in the US, have, for obvious reasons, prudently detatched themselves from their citizens (a pesky lot of whingers, complainers, hand-out seekers, free-loaders, belly-achers, welfare cheats and occupiers) and sought the comfort of the bosoms and (term deleted) of special interest groups and their admininstrations. Despite the Lord's injunction, no lower order beings will be invited into their tent. Tent has a very special, biblical resonance, here in Ireland.
Effectively, welfare policies (even miserly and scabby ones) will be placed on the legislative backburner, or worse retracted, as those in power invoke whomever is in charge of the manufacture of money; "Please, please, may we have some more".
And for all you intelligent folk who think Olli Twist was some poor kid who fell on hard times. Wrong. Olli was a rich kid, and he simply wanted more. That would be less for the real poor kids. Dickens was sticking it (in a very black manner indeed) to someone he knew and whose behaviour he despised. Guess who?
In real life there is no Superman, Batman, Judge Dredd, etc. to protect the 'little guy' and his family from the predations of the greedy, unscrupulous and the criminal. Just your plain vanilla Constitution and Rule of Law, and honest, unbribable enforcers. Oh! We DID have some of those - somewhere, in times gone by. I fancy their time may have come, again.
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