I’m sure I’m not alone in worrying about the upcoming budget. The incongruity of a group of people, many of whom will have no part to play in the next Dail let alone the next government, is obvious.
When Lenihan talks about ‘frontloading’ the adjustment he knows they’re fucked anyway, that the public can’t really get that much more dissatisfied with them, so they can do their worst and the impact on their popularity is nowhere near as big as it might have been.
And yet the immediate financial future of this country is in the hands of the same people who brought about this mess, who denied there was a problem until it was so obvious even they couldn’t get away with it, who still get financial projections completely and utterly wrong, who have done nothing to punish those whose greed and subsequent debt continues to weigh us down and in whom there’s as much confidence as there is in a blind tightrope walker with Parkinson’s.
Only in America Ireland.
There is no plan. Therefore, nothing can go wrong.
Willie set my mind at ease on Tonight with Vincent Browne, last night.
It wasn’t FF’s fault so it wasn’t. It was the media, the experts, dem Lehman brudders, the property bursted bubble.
Not FF at all. Phew. We’re grand. Relax. We’s are in good hands.
He didn’t actually say Lehman Bros, did he?
We’re bollixed.
He did.
It was something along these lines.
Vincent: “Willie, do you think FF realise how much they’ve fucked up the country”.
Willie:
“We are very reliant on international conditions..the US has a huge population, where demand can be met internally..waffle, waffle..we don’t.. more waffle..When the lehman brudders collapsed etc etc bla bla bla.. de experts gave us de wrong advice.. (more incoherent waffle)
Maybe he meant the Lenihan Brothers. That family may go down as the biggest fuckups in modern Irish history.
can the new government not just scrap FF’s budget and start again?
Heh, Cap’n. Never a truer word spoken. That bloody Willie is a crooked little shyster.
Yep. they haven’t got one thing right in 15 years and now they expect to get this one right. NAMA is going to be a fucking farce. The Department of Finance has got every single call wrong so imagine what NAMA is going to be like
I agree with Anne and what was said last night. The craziest one was “what did you want us to do, tax the country out of existence?”
Willie O’Dea said on The Vincent Browne Show that the state of the nations finances is not Fianna Fails fault. He said to VB that he “didn’t hear anybody complaining when they increased pension payments”. He said that he the fact that the interests rates were very low meant that the only way to cool the economy was through fiscal means i.e. taxes and “we couldn’t tax the country of of existence” HUH? When challenged by a lady who writes for the irish independent about the fact that he was elected to make correct decisions and not populist decisions he told her that he “didn’t hear her newspaper complaining about low taxes”. Well Willie, nobody fucking elects newspapers.
Willie thecunt O’Dea tops the poll and still insists none of it was Fianna Fails fault. And the one that really gets on my tits he said it again and wasn’t challenged to finish the sentence ” Mistakes were made”. Yes you affidavit lying cunt, mistake were made. Who made the mistakes? It’s as if the mistakes were made in another dimension. “Mistakes were made” By? Fianna Fail.
I’m going for a lie down
“Frontload”???
The PR geniuses at work.
I’ve said it before – every single person should file for bankruptcy. That would shaft the cunts.
Typical arrogant little fianna fail pigroach. He should be in jail for lying on that affidavit- there was plenty of string pulling/favors called in to make that one go away I’ll bet. There’s obviously more corruption in the judiciary here than people are aware of. What was Vincent Browne doing wasting airtime by having the ignominious dwarf on in the first place?
“What was Vincent Browne doing wasting airtime by having the ignominious dwarf on in the first place?”
I’ll have you know Tomo, Willie was voted 49th in the Limerick Leader’s poll of Limerick’s 50 most sexiest men.. I’m not sure if it included the county regions too.
There is a certain something about him, you have to admit.. pointing that gun. Oh my. Enough to make a girl weak at the knees.
Its like he’s trotting out the excuses that FF were using last year..No one has told him the new lie..
“Eh,Willy,we’re not blaming Lehmanns anymore,we’re blaming the Public service and the general public..basically everyone but us..”
Stabby Anne,
What the fuck with Willie O’Dea, why is he popular in Limerick?
Can we rip up the constitution and start again, albeit with the insurmountable debt… appoint international experts to run the country. Forget Nationalism & Patriotism and all the other rubbish that constrains us..its “our own” that do us in in the end anyway. We’ve proved beyond doubt that we are incapable of governing ourselves without resorting to corruption…the name of the game in Irish politics is to make as much as you can for you and your buddies while in power and grease as many palms as necessary to ensure you don’t get caught when your stint is over…so why not get the best people available regardless of nationality… the best person for the job is the best person for the job and no doubt they’d be cheaper than the current bunch…they’d make the right decisions with no gombeenery, couldn’t be charged with making unpatriotic decisions just smart ones… but who’d appoint these people… surely theres an opening at the moment for new historic figure to make their mark…a new Big Jim Larkin or James Connolly…a new Daniel O’Connell. .. where are you Superman….HELP US
Fianna Fail chose to put one third of Ireland’s GDP into keeping the books closed at a crooked Fianna Fail bank so the people would not find out who was getting ‘non-recourse’ loans and who the Maple 10 and Golden Circle were.
Fianna Fail owe us 30billion euros for that bit of corruption and if Ireland defaults or loses sovereignty then I want my share of Fianna Fail. And I’m not talking about a brown envelope.
I’ll treat them locally or wherever I find them like the curs they are.
EU are calling the shots already. Our sovereignty is already gone. They say 2013 and no later and FF say OK.
And dumb cunts who watch X-Factor all day don’t even know what’s happening to their country.
It won’t be long now before the ‘Hey!’ moment HM.
It’s the mustache HM – He reminds people of Stalin.
your an optimist Cap’n
Will the budget finally tip us into the abyss? Every small business owner I know, including myself, is barely clinging on. Unless the budget is seriously radical, cutting ministers’ and TDs salaries by 50%, getting rid of cars, expenses etc, I don’t think the 7 billion cuts are going to be accepted. Nearly half a million on the dole already, that could double to 25% – 30% unemployment by middle of next year when the bloodbath in SMEs is over next Spring, we will default and the IMF will have to come in and sort us out. When will the riots begin? December or March…
Have a nice day!
300,000 idiots vote 5 times a minute at €1 a go for another idiot on TV.
Probably only 10% of the same 300,000 idiots vote for someone every five years who really does impact on their daily lives.
Can they not see now stupid they are?
Ned O’Keeffe’s comments about Matthew Elderfield the financial regulator who happens to be an Englishman may come back to haunt him.
‘We don’t need foreigners telling us what to do …’
Really, Ned? We may be about find the truth of that.
Holemaster, Is Willie popular in Limerick? First I heard of it. Maybe it’s the moustache.
He’s not popular. He gets beaten up in pubs down here and we’re a very nice people really, but you just have to make exceptions sometimes.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to share the following to give you an idea of how Limerick people feel about our little Willie.
http://bocktherobber.com/2007/10/willie-odea-miniature-for-the-fence
http://bocktherobber.com/2010/08/shaved-willie
http://bocktherobber.com/2010/02/willie-o-dea-resigns
just remembered another Willie O’Dea moment from last night
VB was telling him that in 1997 he inheritated a booming economy. Willie countered that unemployemnt was 180,000. Nora Owen countered that unemployment is now 450,000
Willie O’Dea; what a cunt. Voters of Limerick; what a bunch of cunts.
Captain – Ned is some cunt. All he’s worried about is the value of the AIB shares he holds. horrible old-school patriotic bullshitting cunt. and the people who vote for him
Heh Anne- Twenty will beb delighted with the links,he LOVES Bock..
Anne, do me a favour and knee him in the bollocks next time you see him. Although you’d probably get him in the chin he’s so small.
Well I’m a lady Hole.. I’ll wallop him one with my handbag and aim low. How’s that? I usually just run in the other direction.
Fill, hence the excuse me. ;)
if willie came 49th who was 50th?
I wonder if Brian Lenihan is just paying back FF for making a cunt of his father.
If he is then it’s the best revenge of all time.
remember it was the Haughey bertie side of the party that fucked him over. How sweet would that be, FF brought down from the inside by the few honest people it has.
“Well I’m a lady Hole”
Heh
I must find out if de local junior minishter for idiotic statements plans to keep employin’ his brudder (driver) and missus (secretry) on de public purse, in their cosy unadvertised positions, after the sky falls on budget day. The fat, porcine, overdressed greaseball who wouldn’t know what hit him if he had to put his hand in his own pocket for cash.
SG, you could not help it eh!
Lady hole is funny :)
Le Francais are wondering why le fuck we are not out on les rues protesting.
Someone made the point that deep down we all feel somewhat complicit in the whole charade that the boom was, borrowing more than we could afford, spending too much and not saving enough, etc. I certainly did that. I’m still paying off debt from 2001.
It doesn’t excuse the Anglo criminality but I wonder is this part of the reason we’re not tearing the government a new one?
I’ve got me eye on you “Lady Hole”
”There’s obviously more corruption in the judiciary here than people are aware of.”
I agree with Tomo. How else does a paedophile like Brain Curtin get off child porn charges on a technicality. I’ll bet that search warrent was sitting on some other judges desk for 6 and a half days before it was given over to be acted on…
Back on topic, Willie O’Dea is a weasel.
Of course the judiciary is corrupt. The whole system is bent. Just watch how many cases are thrown out because warrants were improperly served or because questioning went on too long or periods of detention went over the limit.
A lot of that is totally deliberate in order to fuck up a charge.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2010/10/27/there-were-exactly-eight-tds-left-in-the-dail-chamber-debating-the-e15-billion-budget-cuts/
They don’t want to be associated with the budget cuts on de telly.
So they are all off being corrupt somewhere instead.
Thats shocking Twenty. It confirms what we already know, that all of Irelands descision making is done off the record, behind closed doors, confidentially and no one in government stands behind their actions.
Fuck them. I’ve moved and not coming back.
“we all feel somewhat complicit in the whole charade that the boom was, borrowing more than we could afford…”
agree with you hm. cultural hangover about owning your own bit of land (thankfully i’m not that influenced by my parents who kept telling me to buy before it was too late) and a need to be better than the joneses (holidays, jeeps, new kitchen and clothes) just encouraged banks to be more retarded in their lending practices. this whole thing might be good for the irish if they learn to take a bit of responsibility for their actions, but i doubt it will happen
I was never bothered about owning a house and the only cars I like are classic 80s ones you can get for €3000!
But I spent a lot on eating out, country house hotels and weekends to Europe and supermarket shopping without a list.
no list… bet you were probaly hungry doing the shopping is well ya ravenous basTADD!!!
…when are the statues being removed from O’Connell Street? (so they don’t get damaged during the Metro North works)…if ever there was poetic symbolism for the demise of the country surely thats it…. this act of removal of some of our great historic leaders could mark the time for the great uprising of the people… i won’t organise it or even show up myself, just saying is all
in the scale of things that’s not too bad. at least you’re not going to be paying for your ford cortina and chicken chow mein for the next 30 years or so. feel a bit sorry for my mates who bought vastly overpriced closet sized houses right up until the point they start whinging about the banks and government. people don’t like “i told you so” meaning less invitations to come back round for cheap cans of beer. that’s ok cos there’s not much room anyway :)
Some of my southside mates bought right at the peak of the boom. They’re stuck in houses they can’t sell for maybe 15 years. They all bought ‘starter’ homes which will be too small for a family or else they’re in areas that are run down and getting worse by the week.
My northside friends don’t know what they’re complaining about though. They all live near the Ma.
My northside friends don’t know what they’re complaining about though. They all live near the Ma.
Heh..
He is just a fumbling wanker. I mean the wankster and that gigantic albino faced Queen of the Oompa-Loompas are on and on about deep hash cuts too important things like Healthcare and Education. Meanwhile the state owned ESB gave 3% pay rises to staff last year and probably will again this year, they plan to bolster employees pensions with another hair brained scheme. I mean stopping this kind of madness and even making the fuckers take a 2% pay cut would generate over 1bn. If they did it half right it could be 10% of their 15bn target and maybe if they went the extra mile, took their tongues out of each others arseholes for I don’t know 40 mins maybe….. and did it completely right, instead of repatriating the profits directly to the exchequer they could use some of it in a grant scheme to offer companies who locate her cheaper energy for a specific amount of time. This would obviously generate more revenue and in turn help them achieve a higher percent of their target. I’m pretty sure the people on trolleys in the A&E or the pensioners who worked hard all their lives would appreciate every measly percent of their 15bn target. I also see the lovely Toll Road is up for sale, so you can build a road on Irish Soil, get a grant to do it, own the road and charge people to do and that’s ok with Mr Wankface, he see’s no opportunity here to make money and he is the Finance Minister. The bike scheme is another example of them just throwing money away. Come on people we need a national protest for his resignation? There is no way the next in line can be that stupid. When I eventually get to go on my honeymoon I’m going to beg my worser half not to come back.
Have you found a husband yet Nonny?
what’s all this “we” business cap’n? no harm but i dont think the borough of camden pay us too much in the way of tax…
Lots of army helicopter activity and cop cars nipping around in Rathmines.
Oh.
*
Shit.
10 yr bond rates pushing 7% again.
7 bn paid to anglo senior bond holders 30 th Sept.
Apparently journos were tipped off in advance and still nothing on the mainstream meeja.
Tony O’Reilly owns the Indo rags. He and his son are utter cunts who are overseeing the stupification of mainstream Ireland. They are Ireland’s Murdochs.
Big business wants people stupid so we’ll swallow any old shit from politicians and corporates. The O’Reilly’s part of that plan is to tell journos what to write. So you end up with arseholes like Brendan O’Connor.
Best advice I got regarding media was from an Economics lecturer. He said to get all my information from the internet and learn how to distinguish between the truth and the spin. Because mainstream media has nothing to do with the truth.
Is that your way of proposing to Nonny HM ?
Shush. Stabby Anne will be jealous.
hm – internet’s not too relaible either.
although porn IS always available..
that night when the two finance officials called over to briano’s gaff and he said,
” okay, sure we’ll back them”
that night he shoulda pretended to be at the flicks or at the cinema or having a bath.
that night – he articulated an idealogy which was foreign to the peoples what bornt this country
a government for the peoples brian – the peoples – all of them
or at the pub
*doh*
Rapemachine; “what’s all this “we” business cap’n? no harm but i dont think the borough of camden pay us too much in the way of tax…”
(1) All my family live in Ireland
(2) Its always ‘we’ when Micky Martin is over to UK or US looking for a great patriotic handout
(3) I uses ‘we’ because it cheers me up every now and then to realise I won’t be paying for all this shit.
(4) Bit I don’t like people stealing from my family so the ‘we’ comes in there.
(5) If Peter Sutherland can use ‘we’ then I believe I certainly am entitled to if that fat cunt can get a way with it.
I’ll be back to you with more later.
I’m going to log off for the day. I’m too commenty.
Just realised that if Ireland does default or lose its sovereignty as looks like happening I can tell people to shut up when I go home and that they’ve demonstrated their incompetence to the point where their opinions are now invalid.
Maybe I should buy a cheapo property at home and employ some of them at minimum wage.
I’m six foot, fairhaired and blue-eyed. I guess it was inevitable really. Raus! Raus! Into ze van you Hibernian untermensch!
Ja- popular Herr Kapitan is going to be back in County Mud.
“or at the pub”
don’t like lenihan being in the pub. found him sitting in my seat at the counter. luckily he left before i had my pint finished as i was seriously contemplating frontloading a glass into his face
“I’m going to log off for the day. I’m too commenty.”
in best schwarznegger voice “he’ll be baaack”
Just realised that if Ireland does default or lose its sovereignty as looks like happening I can tell people to shut up when I go home and that they’ve demonstrated their incompetence to the point where their opinions are now invalid.
Maybe I should buy a cheapo property at home and employ some of them at minimum wage.
You are glueface
I’m coming round to Glueys way of thinking.
can’t be glueface – he bought a cheapo keyboard that only has upper case keys on it
all part of the disguise. By all accounts he’s git/cj/crispy/monkey balls as well
AMDG
October 27th, 2010 @ 3:37 pm
…when are the statues being removed from O’Connell Street? (so they don’t get damaged during the Metro North works)…if ever there was poetic symbolism for the demise of the country surely thats it…. this act of removal of some of our great historic leaders could mark the time for the great uprising of the people… i won’t organise it or even show up myself, just saying is
thank you again am (think you gave me the heads-up on the national playing a gig?). I now have a plan. It’s to do with td and ego, so it should be quite simple. will reveal after research. this could be the dogs bollix.
“crispy/monkey balls”
that’s it – i’ll have a chinese tonight
well peadar, i suppose adding schizophrenia to all his other ailments won’t make much of a difference at this stage
lenihan has a wankface? shit. is that what a wankface looks like?
olá peadar. you going to the opera? captain is not MB/Git I,,,i do’t think. I met MB at xmas do. deffo not the captain. unless he’s totally fight club. that’d be cool.
Nein. I can assure you all zat I am not ze Monkey Balls/CJ/Git zat you all speak of.
You are all on ze list back at Headqvarters. Ja.
Isn’t the Cap’n another reformed multiple poster?
Ah, blogging… it’s a game of duel personalities. Oops. I mean, dual personalities, heh.
I like that the Cap’n seems to be morphing into Hm’s The German.
Oh no. “if willie came 49th who was 50th?”
It was a complete unknown Ohno, a bit of a suprising finalist. Some chap from a rehabiliation facility out east.
His mother put in a vote for him.
We’re not sure yet who voted for Willie. Possibly his mother also.
Tis slim pickins down here.
hear ye, hear ye…
the latest greatest plan from the Franco-German axis…(unfortunate term I know)
Remove voting rights from EU Member States who don’t meet budget standards….
Which way will Biffo vote ???
He’ll probably abstain. I think he’s barred copenachin. If not he’ll abstain. But not from alcohol. The germans can come on over; I wish to fuck they would and get rid of the greedy fucking cunts here. I bet the minister for culture or, ze minister fur culture, doesn’t feel entitled to claim 3 state pensions. Schnell, schnell!
Germans are basically saying, “listen you dumb fucks, we’re bank-rolling you, you dance to our tune now. Thanks for buying all those mercs on tick with our money and having the most mercs per head in europe my little pixie friends.”
Budget smudget. I’ve taken 35% pay cuts in one year, n expect another 10% tomor. The budget ain’t even an annoying itch on me arse. I’m happy to be even getting what I’m getting. Budget can’t hurt me anymore that I’ve got already.
Copenachin’
“hear ye, hear ye…
the latest greatest plan from the Franco-German axis…(unfortunate term I know)
Remove voting rights from EU Member States who don’t meet budget standards….
Which way will Biffo vote ???”
Zat iss NOT a plan. Zat proposal iss merely an accountancy ayyustment.
Now go to bed all off you. Ve need you up and prrrodductive in ze mornink. RAUS! RAUS! SCHNELL!
I had decided to vote labour, then I see in my local newspaper that the candidate for the forthcoming election will be an absolute fucking muppet, someone who makes the Healy-Raes of Kerry seem urbane.
I’m not voting at all, fuck it.
Zere vill be no election. Tomorrow you vill all dance for us ze funny liddle leprechauner dance.
And zen maybe ve vill buy some of your liddle bank debt dependink on ze audience reaction in Berlin.
And zay say ve haff no zense of humour. HO. HO. HO. HA. HA .HA.
haha.
I object.
folks – if only .
I turned on my blog.
from a couple of years back.
still apt.
oh god.
oh dear god.
FORMER TAOISEACH and current publically funded layabout Bertie Ahern has advised Poland to keep tight control over financial institutions, saying he wished he had known the importance of doing so when he was taoiseach.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/1028/1224282144477.html
Ahern says “If I had known this before 2008, Ireland wouldn’t have suffered. I can blame only myself”…
but…
In another section of the interview Mr Ahern said he does not feel responsible for what he described as the “banks’ wrong policy”.
Doh !
What happens when you start something, walk away for 20 minutes, then come back and hit “Submit”
I know im going out on a limb here but i really think the irish are thick.I mean where did we think all this greed/spending would end up,with a happy ever after just buying and selling each other property.I mean alot of people were in on it not just the rich.The people fueled the notion that everyone should buy a home or two banks gave the money la ti da till everything went to shit.
It is pointless blaming government builders banks when we knew in our minds as individuals,it didnt feel right,we doubted our own instincts.Thats not to say that seanie and co shouldnt get the north korean answer to our woes but really if we think about it we elect thies ejits if we want something diffrent lets do it by force till then a four year plan is useless but maby so are we.