Enda didn’t say anything… As usual he just listens…. Better get this school teacher back to teaching before its too late…. Or maybe it’s already to late…

Germany and France will not lift a finger to help countries like ours until they feel threatened themselves. We should have voted No, to send a clear signal.
However, its not too late, if Enda threatens Merkel with an untidy default, i can guarantee you, she will get a finger out. In this scenario, it will be both in Germanys and Irelands interest to come up with a debt write down.
But alas, i fear Enda and Gimpmore are only looking to stay in power long enough to get their pension rights. The rest of us can go sing for our suppers. What do the rank and file Labour and FFg TDs think while they sit there and listen to the bullsh8t Kenny is coming out with. He promised transparency, and all we are getting is smoke, mirrors and half assed statements like ‘we will keep trying’. We need action, not words Kenny. Merkel couldn’t give two damns about you or your personal fortune. Do something…. anything. If you are unable to take a decisive line, then get out of the way, and out of Government and let someone in there who knows what they are doing, and are willing to stand up for the Irish people.

@ Too Trueleft,

With all the money (tax payers money) that this gombeen is paying for P.R. one would think that they would remind him not to be so patronizing to colleagues on the other side and also the electorate. He needs a good slap on the back of the neck every now and then to remind him. I’m sure he got a few of them when he was in school.

By the way, we have some great teachers in education at the moment, not sure if I’d want him teaching my children. Thankfully, finished schooling after this Leaving Certificate!

On another point it’s infuriating to see the picture that this story uses… To see 6 FF TD’s laughing so heartly is sickening…. WTF is so funny… These morons every single one of then should be kicked out without pay or pensions…. If I may say so a half dozen relatively smart patriotic people would run this country way better than that incompetent shower.

I want to bash heads together…

MERKEL: “Sit Enda sit”
ENDA : “whimpers”(and sits)
MERKEL: “good dog”

The righteous one speaks

@cal. Merkel knows we cannot default. She knows this because we still run an enormous fiscal deficit. If however they took the hard decisions to balance the books, that would be a very different story. Default would be a feasible option and I guarantee you, she’d offer a deal without being asked. And an apology…

Obama never speaks without a tele-prompter, what’s your point ?
Merkel is financing the EU, our pay checks and ATM’s, she is our queen.

The ‘inda’ thing is a bit tired now, by the way, 1250 people were asked why they voted yes, 540 said SF helped sway their YES vote, Good job

Mark, unless I was in the room when he made the call I would not believe what Kenny says, he has lied to us all from day one when he was running for election, why would he tell the truth now. When he speaks he has one story for us and another for Europe, an example being the banking debt not our fault one day and totally our fault the next. The man is a liar and a cheat and should be removed from office and charged with treason along with Noonan and Gilmore.

Excellent point John, Kenny will make up some kind of lie later about his chat with Merkel and it will all be passed over for some other news item. Noonan’s meeting with the Bilderberg group in Virginia is one we will hear nothing on but far more important as these are the people who are making all of the decisions, pulling all of the strings and making happen what they want.
Some interesting quotes I read earlier..
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
– Henry Ford

“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
– Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference in Evians, France, 1991

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
– Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets

“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
– David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405

“It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go….We are living in the end of the sovereign states….In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish….Countless people…will hate the new world order….and will die protesting against it.” – H.G. Wells, in his book, “The New World Order”, 1940.

I had a similar post above and it was removed …….???
Perhaps the journal does not like the word bottom ? or is it the word treacherous that does not go down well ?
However I was also accused of not accepting the decision of the people . I do accept it , given that it was made under duress and false pretences it seems a tad unfair , but that is democracy for you . there is always the general election to look forward to ….. Bottoms up people :)

“Micheal Martin seems to ask these questions in a convenient disregard for his direct involvement in allowing the catastrophe to hit this country arise in the first place!”

I’m no FF supporter but this argument is getting really old now. He’s the leader of the opposition now, whether we like it or not. He’s absolutely right to be asking such questions. If it wasn’t him it’d be a SF TD, and people would still be decrying the fact that they had the nerve to ask questions considering their history. Who exactly is qualified, willing and in a position to actually oppose the government? Frankly I don’t care who is asking the questions.. that’s not even remotely important right now as far as I’m concerned.. I just want the questions to be asked.. and when Kenny and Co. dodge them and refuse to answer then they deserve to be called up on it.

How many questions did FF avoid answering when they were in power.. do we really want to see that again?

Eh, the man is in opposition, it’s his job!!! He is supposed to ask questions of the goverment.

I appreciate that he needs to ask the questions but its kind of like the instigator of a massacre questioning those charged with cleaning it up, I know the point is made many times but the damage Fianna Fail did to this country is probably unprecedented in the developed world, save for a dictatorial coup has any other democractically elected western government ever failed its people so much and yet a key member is now in a position to question those failing to properly deal with it. He was democratically elected, he is obligated to ask questions in opposition but it seems wrong that that is his role considering the damage he and other prominent FF members are responsible for.

mart_n
Where were you for the past 4 weeks ? FF supported the government .So it is a little bit of a wasted exercise for Michael to come along now and pretend that he is in opposition …. He is leader of FF not the opposition . He has made it very clear where his loyalties lie and it is not with us the people , it is with Germany’s Merkle and their banks.

I have to agree with mart_n here. When things go wrong it’s was always a FF policy that the government can’t change, when something goes well it’s new government plan. If FG/Lab are true to form I’d like to think that Enda blamed Cowen for the current European mess and probably Chelsea winning the champions league, when he was on the phone to Dr Merkel. The minutes of the conversation will be released in 30 years anyway, round about the time our children pay off our mortgages.

Ye are actually both right. Yes it is his job to ask these questions but it also true that he couldn’t give a tossa bout what is good for this country, has never exhibited any concern for it, as a minister and in general his presence in the Dáil is a reminder of how he and his party colleagues destroyed this country.

Exactly and it didnt get him anywhere with her. Ultimately people respect those who legitimately assert their rights because dominant people would have had at least to do that to get to where they are themselves. Doing what your told without challenge and succumbing to dominance without question engenders zero respect. Enda has zero respect

The German’s undoubtably laugh at how stupid the paddies are, bankrupt themselves to pay off all speculative bondholders in full, never publicly challenge those who insisted upon it and consider progress a few loans to push off the inevitable consequences of their incompetence.

Thats our electoral system Eugene, you join a prominent party, you win a local popularity competition based on local issues, you massage the ego’s of the powers that be in the party and support their position on national issues, if the party does well in an election and your well in with the powers that be, your a minister and if you hang around long enough and can trump the gamesmanship and allegiance conlficts of vying for inter party power you could be Taoiseach.

Local issues elect people who through inter party and inter parliamentary power battles form a national government. The system can only allow for incumbents to form governments, if an election was held tomorrow Enda would be voted in the system could not allow for any other candidate.

Problem here Eugene is there are only a couple of ways to rid the country of the little runt, a breakdown in the current government resulting in early elections or a revolution. The latter will never happen while the pubs are open and the dole payments are being made, Sad but true, the VFI don’t realise the power that they hold :-)

He needs to get a spine or get out

The Yes Man Kenny is not in negotiations with Merkel, he is taking orders from her. FG are only a continuity FF with more of the same old BS so get of your little hobby horse there Higgins!

To be honest it doesn’t really matter if he tells us or not. Truth is he has zero influence in Europe and Ireland’s only hope is that some of the bigger countries such has France, Spain & Italy decide things need to change (direct funding by the ECB to banks). Then if we are lucky we might be able to grab hold of their coat tails and also get some benefit. The credit Kenny and co claim for cutting the original punitive interest on our loan is nonsense as that only came about because of the crises in Greece and for no other reason. We have no influence at all.

While I’d agree it is a bit ironic that Martin is complaining it is also just as ironic that Lab/FG are carrying out the FF/Green deal to the letter despite all their claims before the election. Add to that you could also say they made a very poor fist of being the opposition and holding previous governments to account for their actions which brought Ireland to this current crises. The political class of all shades have failed us.

“…..but I promise you one thing now, and that is that I will lead the most open and hardworking Government in the history of this State, a Government acting with urgency and a sense of responsibility, always keeping the interests of the Irish people at its heart. ”
Enda Kenny.

“Though no conclusion has yet been reached on the renegotiation of the bailout terms, I believe the exceptionally strong mandate our new Government received from the Irish people on February 25th cannot be ignored by Europe – the Irish people voted for a new direction for our country, and I will continue to fight for that on their behalf.

Kind regards
Yours sincerely

Enda Kenny TD
Taoiseach

It sounds more and more hollow every time I read it.