Eileen
Are the people they don’t represent indecent?

Mark Richard Rogers
Brow beaten and bullied quite possibly. Of course they are decent .
Misled I would say and in your case either brainwashed or well paid to troll.

Rubbish.

The message is going out quite clear to the councillers. Act now or loose your seat.

I’m sure the protesters are really sorry for the inconvenience.
How dare taxpayers that contribute to the councillers wages want to voice their discomfort.

I’m sure the Cabinet, the ones actually implementing these policies, who are rushing to cut local Government and centralize all local authority powers to themselves, really give a damn that a local council meeting was cancelled as a result of this.

Wrong tax, wrong time but equally the wrong place to voice opposition to it. Ministers need to be disrupted, need to hear the peoples displeasure. Local Councillors don’t have a say at Cabinet. Then again I’m very sure that the protesters and Cllr. Ted Tynan well know this.

@ Eoin.
People are so sick of being ignored,sneered at and bullied by this government they are striking out.
I see where your coming from but this country is like a pot boiling over at the moment.

Eoin,
Pressure needs to applied at all levels, ministerial and grass roots. The local elections are in 2014. The message was clear. ‘Axe the tax or watch your vote collapse’. Large numbers of FG and especially Labour councillors need to understand that their seats are gone if their parties continue to implement the austerity policies of the Troika. That pressure will certainly percolate up to the cabinet table. Labour particularly are looking at a massacre in the local elections and rightly so.

Just to add to Codlers post.
I would be very surprised if even a small amount of sitting councillers retain their seats after the local elections.
The last general election gave ff the shock of their lives and it set a trend.

Eoin

The Household charge / Proterty Tax is to provide for local services or so the we are told.

So disrupting a local council meeting was the correct place to hold the demonstration.

As for the Cabinet (or muppets of Leinser House as I call them), not giving a damn. I totally agree with you they are only concerned about themselves. They can’t see that their actions are affecting their own Party and the election prospects of future candicates.

David,
Read the article properly. It was the campaign against the Household tax/Property tax who mounted this protest not the Workers party. The Workers Party member mentioned in the article, Ted Tynan is an elected councillor so presumably he believes in democracy. I think the problem may be that Tynan doesn’t subscribe to the thin veneer of democracy that you support. In this version of ‘democracy’ , FG and Labour get themselves elected under a false manifesto and riding the wave of a huge backlash against the FF crooks and clowns. The new government then reneges on their pre election promises and proceeds to enforce savage austerity on their own people so that they can continue to pay the crippling illegitimate banking debts under orders from Troika. I must be a communist myself because I don’t believe in that travesty of a democracy either.

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