Is it really too much to expect that the Minister for Finance fully read a 120 page document?
Is it really too much to expect that he be made aware of a situation where billions of euros are being transferred between banks in order to cook the figures?
Is it really believable that people in his department knew, referred it to the Financial Regulator, but didn’t tell him?
That in a time of crisis he couldn’t manage to read 120 extremely important pages is just appalling. He’s just announced the recapitalisation plans for AIB and Bank of Ireland. Can we be sure he hasn’t missed something because he couldn’t be arsed reading a different 120 page document?
Do we really know there’s nothing dodgy on those books? Can we trust him if he says there isn’t?
He has all the credibility of Lorena Bobbit at a bris. Time to go.
But he’s not really in office to serve the public. He’s in there to maintain the status quo for the political and business elite. We don’t matter.
Did I hear Lenihan pardon himself by saying it was on pager 120 of a 750 page document? Massive Fail.
Meanwhile Mr Regulator gets a bung of €630,000 and a pension of €143,000 per annum. For doing what? Not his job, obviously.
The crapness, as you previously observed.
It’s almost hillarious to see that the Green Party in on the action. Part of the deal includes:
“A €100m environmental and clean energy innovation fund from each bank.”
Fucking morons.
“BOI and AIB to provide each household with 6 long-lasting, environmentally friendly lightbulbs”
The Greens have lost all credibility. I used to vote for them (I know, I know), but never again.
FFers don’t resign, ever. That type of thing went out of fashion about 10 years ago
THE ONLY SURPRISE HERE IS THAT YOU LOT KEEP BEING SURPRISED BY THIS KIND OF SHITE – THEY WOULDN’T TRY IT ON IF YOU TWATS DIDN’T KEEP ELECTING THEM…OH, BUT I FORGOT, THEY DO REPRESENT YOU….
Ah,Gluaistean.Still can’t find the Caps-Lock key…
Excuse my ignorance but I’d never heard of Lorena Bobbit. Now I do and that knowledge has just made my morning. Thank you Twenty.
You can’t really argue with his loud shouty point though.
Please stop electing them.
Democracy doesn’t work. Approx 95% of people are fucking morons… Could be skewed higher in this fucking country mind…
No he has a shouty point..
But it may well be lost on this particular site as i can’t imagine many on here did Vote for them,or am I wrong? ..No ,i dont even want to think that….
Whatever about voting for them, it’s the forty odd percent that didn’t vote at all that have us in this mess.
Fuck off Jack. We have a right to vote, not an obligation.
If people don’t want to vote, that’s fair enough. A depressing line-up of chancers and charlatans and everyone has to choose which ones they want to get done up the arse by?
Very True..
One thing my Old man drilled into me was to vote whenever there was an election.His simple logic was that on the News all the time were stories of people dying in order to secure democratic elections,here we are with the Vote and if you cant even bother your arse to go up a tick a box you are a cunt.. I’m para-phrasing, but you get the jist..
I think you’ll find it’s the whatever percentage that voted FF back in that have us in this mess.
Or, more pertinently, it’s FF themselves.
Can’t totally blame Joe Public… he was drugged up to the eyeballs on choosing new cars to spend his loan on and installing patio heaters to think too carefully about the consequences of his action.
Get bent SG! If you didn’t vote, then your opinion on this isn’t worth shit. What I’ve found is that it’s usually the ones that don’t vote that make the most noise when it all goes perar shaped. Please tell me you are not one of those reprobates!
I did vote. But I understand if people don’t want to. How is any of this their fault. And why exactly don’t they get to have an opinion?
Most likely a similar percentage would have voted FF as those who did vote.
oh oh, the usual political argument.
Just for the record – anyone who voted FF is a cunt.
FG aren’t much better.
I was disabled from voting because i was working in a different city at the time of the vote and wasn’t given enough time to get home for the voting or to switch my location.
Bertie is a sly fucking cunt.
How is it their fault?
A guy gets beaten to death on the street while 20 or 30 people just apathetically look on. While the aggressor is at fault, who also should share the blame?
How pissed should those that tried to effect change be at the ones who couldn’t have been arsed and what right do the ones that couldn’t have been arsed have to complain when it went tits up?
I think they are less culpable than those who voted for the status quo.
And, again, it is a right, not an obligation.
What change, exactly, did anyone try to effect?
I voted anyone but FF. A local councillor who I know works like a horse and seems decent enough, active on the right issues.
I also gave the Greens a nod. That worked out well.
The Greens fooled alot of people SG..
I dont think that’ll happen again..
BTW,i wasnt giving out about people not voting,i was just stating what I was brought up to believe.
If you dont want to Vote then dont,there are plenty of constituancies out there with not one good candidate across the parties..
Anyone that voted for FF is a cunt btw,that is non-negotiable..
SG, I took the same approach last time myself but if that 40 or so percent that didn’t vote had actually turned out and took the same approach, we would be in a different situation politically today. Economically we would’ve still been fucked, that damage was done.
As for resignation, fat chance of that happening. Best to scoop them all up in a bucket attached to a helicopter and dump ‘em on a bush fire in Australia!
Anyone that voted for FF is a cunt btw,that is non-negotiable..
Johnny5 voted for FF.
QEFUCKINGD
Hmm, i reckon abstaining is not that bad a thing.
We’re better off if people have an interest in politics and know what they’re voting for.
But what’s the point in voting if you don’t know anything about the parties?
Hehe..
I hear He’s outside the Dail now..Dowsed in petrol threating to light himself up and then fart…
Something to do with legislation on S&M safety words…
Jack – “SG, I took the same approach last time myself but if that 40 or so percent that didn’t vote had actually turned out and took the same approach, we would be in a different situation politically today.”
Fair enough, but you’re presuming that the 40% no-shows are politically aware change-driven lazy feckers. I reckon they are probably a cross-section same as any other, and if we had forced them to vote, the result wouldn’t have been much different.
I still believe that it is a valid stance to take, not to vote.
And, yes, if you voted FF last time round, that’s just plain stupid. ignoring the mounting evidence must have been quite a feat in self-delusion.
Morgor, who said anything about the parties? There are numerous independent candidates out there.
Not voting for a particular party or candidate is far more effective than not voting at all. It sends the definite message ‘I do NOT want you!’ and forces the candidate/party to reevaluate their policies. Not voting at all isn’t even counted, it’s a nothing. They love it when people don’t vote so they can win with the smallest of majorities.
Politicians are cunts – all of them.
People going on about a duty to vote are the cunt’s best friends – as whichever cunt gets elected then claims he has a mandate for his brand of cuntingness – even if he actually was only elected to stop some other cunts getting elected.
So, unless you are happy with what they are, don’t vote for any of the fuckers.
Independents are cunts as well – don’t know about the ROI but in the UK we had cunts like Martin Bell. Some choice that.
Jack,
Not voting for a particular party or candidate is far more effective than not voting at all.
Agreed.
But not voting displays a country’s apathy towards it’s candidates and it’s politics which reflects badly on both the voter and the politician.
SG, demographically it’s been shown that low voter turn out tends to occur in socially/ economically deprived areas where the attitude among the constituents is one of ‘Fuck the Government!, Fuck the Police etc’. I don’t think that that type of constituent is likely to vote FF. Mind you SF are making huge inroads iin these areas hence their last improvement.
Morgor, Apathy doesn’t choose governments! They love voter apathy, unfortunately there is no none of the above box to be ticked.
I see John Gormley has put his tree hugging,brown tongued,power mad oar in..
Mr Gormley described calls for the resignation of his cabinet colleague as “absolute nonsense”.
He said Mr Lenihan was doing “a very good job under exceptionally difficult circumstances”.
Well thats ok so….oh wait! no it isn’t!
He has done an exceptionally shit job under difficult circumstances.But thats what he was voted in and given the job for.
Nothing will be done about this.If Bertie was able to get away with it.these fuckers (who knew about the Anglo-Irish affair way before the economy was sliding downhill) will fight tooth and nail to stay in power.
Cowen will never call an early election and will use some excuse like “Im in charge,its my way or the Highway,Country Road take me home…etc..”
Violent protest is the only option..I actually think that it will come to that,only the Cops wont be beating down on pretend-anarchist students this time.It’ll be a few hundred thousand jobless Jo Soaps… Bring it on I say..
A soapy Jo ? Sounds interesting !
Brian Lenihan is a lawyer;
He wouldn’t know the paradox of thrift if it kicked him in the nuts. This morning on Radio 1 he went into lawyer speak.
These FF fuckers will have to be shifted out of power very soon; they are a fucking unmitigated disaster. As is that spoofer Harney – who lets not forget – has been there all along eating cake and drinking gravy.
I’d forgotten about Maggots crush on Jo!
She’s a lovely girl !
These FF fuckers will have to be shifted out of power very soon;
Would the alternative be any better ?
Would the alternative be any better ?
YES.
‘Violent protest is the only option.’
Most sensible solution I’ve heard all morning. There’s nothng to sort out a Fat Cheshire Cat than a good fuckin kickin!
If we had an election tomorrow, FF would still be the largest party, maybe not in power, but still the largest.
The Green Party will be blown away, just like Labour were after their coalition with FF.
FG are a pointless waste of time, and Labour are FG light who will never, ever tackle public sector unions, or those in the health service.
Sinn Fein entire manifesto is based on sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting la la la la and voting no to everything.
Where, in all this is a credible party?
For the record, I think Lenihan should resign, he is eminently qualified to be Minister For Justice, but as a number cruncher, he’s as useful as Damien Duff’s stylist.
but as a number cruncher, he’s as useful as Damien Duff’s stylist
Hehe..
I actually think that elements of the Top 3 would make a fairly good alternative.
I also think that any investigation into the Irish Permenant/Anglo Irish Bank/Financial Regulator shit storm should be done by an auditing company from another country with no ties to any of these cunts.THe findings should be given to the DPP ,not the Government ,after all it is fraud we are talking about is it not..
All of this after the revolution comrades!! heh
All of this after the revolution comrades!!
Those of us that could be bothered to get up off our holes and revolt!
I also think that any investigation into the Irish Permenant/Anglo Irish Bank/Financial Regulator shit storm should be done by an auditing company from another country with no ties to any of these cunts.THe findings should be given to the DPP ,not the Government ,after all it is fraud we are talking about is it not..
What happened with Anglo/IL&P has to be tip of the iceberg stuff.
Oh,yes it is..
Another reason Cowen wont be calling an election.
What will come out when they are gone doesnt bare thinking about if this is whats coming out while they are in power..
Thats equestrian centre in Kildare-Dodgy as fuck
Electronic Voting Machines (bought for double the value from Holland- Proved to be useless and unreliable 2 years after we got them(at a cost of €2 million for the report) – Cost €600,000 per year to store -In a pal of Berties warehouse no less- Dutch Govt put them in land fills..
These 2 examples are nothing by the way,just examples of the arrogance and cynicism of the shower of cunts..
it all goes back to that famous phrase by C(unt) J Haughey–” We will have to tighten our belts”
WEll these cunts have been loosening their belts ever since and we have been eating dick…
This might be bold but….
http://1blankpage.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/testing-testing-testing/#comments
No point in moaning on and on, we may as well start something going. Get rid of these fucking cunts and their power base once and for all.
Shit HM.
Cant see it in work unfortunately.. an im rightly in the form now…
I’d join you, HM. I don’t trust that Maxi fella though. He’s got a way about him.
Sign me up HM.
Maxi is going to ride them all out of office.
I bags Harney!
History shows that every cunt that comes along and says he is going to clean things up turns out to be just as big a cunt as the rest of them.
Oh..
Just got a tip-off from someone I know that AIB exec’s are getting their FULL Bonuses for last year..
There was a meeting last week apparently..
Shhh… dont tell anyone though.
History shows that every cunt that comes along and says he is going to clean things up turns out to be just as big a cunt as the rest of them.
That’s the spirit Maggot. sure whats the point?
Let’s just get raped our entire lives, it’s not as if we can do anything about it.
How do you all sound so surprised about the Fianna Fail band wagon? Lots of people were making lots and lots of fucking money! And those who werent were desperately trying to get on the band wagon. Do we remember the Galway races? 100,000 Fianna Fail voters whooping it up every summer?
It’s a sad fact of life Morgor – those poor Cunts in Russia thought it would be Jam all the way when they had their revolutionm whacked the Czar and look where it got them.
It’s all over now! Rome has fallen.
Maggot, there won’t be any cunts, unless everyone in the country is a cunt.
unless everyone in the country is a cunt.
They are. It’s human nature.
and the fuckers are looking for more money.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aFcxInyRevnY&refer=uk
Maggot, we might need someone to live in a hut in the mountains with a shotgun and rabid dog. You interested? Free food and porn.
I already do HM though you can never have enough porn!
you can never have enough porn!
What about at a funeral?
Or a job interview?
Especially then MB…
I’m a little late into this.
All I could say about it has been said, but I got so pissed off with the whole situation that I figured that if I didn’t at least try to do something then I shouldn’t be moaning about it.
Stop voting them in and do something about the fuckers that are there already.
Oh, and I do have a way about me, but so does yer ma.
I like yer way, Maxi.
Did you see Lenihan on the 6 o’clock news, doing a Brian Dobson interview?
I’m tellin’ ya, that Dobson fella has to go too. He’s obviously working for them.
And Jo,
I like yer way, Maxi.
Some of us know why! I’m surprised you managed to take time out to post such a long comment.
fnukk, fnukk!
MB, I think Dobson used to do a nixer training politicians for TV interviews, and then he was stopped.
Every time a FF F’er is in deep shit, they roll him out.
It smells like the TV station is held to ransom if they want those exclusive* interviews.
I wonder who’s payroll he’s actually on, RTE’s or FF’s? Or both?
*And when I say ‘exclusive, I really mean scripted, rehearsed and pre-recorded, but presented as if they weren’t.
What galls me the most is that it’s so fuckin’ obvious that it becomes an insult to your intelligence.
And why do WE pay the wages of Dobson and any other spin doctor who’s job it is to lie to us. That’s just ludicrous.
Dobson is a fat cunt with a weakness for chips. He admitted to this weakness in an RTE Guide interview once. He didn’t mention his fatness or his vulvism.
Dobson is a fat cunt with a weakness for chips. He admitted to this weakness in an RTE Guide interview once. He didn’t mention his fatness or his vulvism (vaginity?).