Should we be surprised?

Politician lying to get into power shocker!

It’s been more of the same since FG\Labour took over, absolutely no difference between them and FF.

In my opinion as the above video demonstrates, this current government lied to get elected. As such they have no democratic mandate to bee in power. You cannot promise one thing to get elected and then do a complete about turn and insist you were given a 5 year mandate to govern as they are not trying to do with the new treaty. Treason is, the word I use here and not lightly either.

At what stage will people decide that they’ve had enough?

“Kenny has told Bloomberg television that Ireland will not seek any write-down on its debt and will not impose losses on bondholders.”

So, in effect, he said “I can’t negotiate, so if you invest in our country and lose, you have absolutely nothing to worry about”

No we will bleed the Irish people dry to pay for your gambling on Anglo and any other banks you took a bet on.I really thought FG and Labour would be different.I won’t be fooled next time into voting for these two partys.Come knocking on my door they better have body armer.

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Dear Leo and ruari, for your pre election lies you have lost the votes of 2 lifelong non Fianna fail voters.
FOR EVER!

This Government will tell you that there was a deal made by the last Government. They can if they wanted to undo the deal.They new before they were elected what the situation was so they should not make promises they could not keep. There is no difference between Finna Gale and finna Fail after all they are Parties of the Civil war.They are has beens. We need a government that can relate to modern Issues.Labour is stuck in the middle. They are not to happy with the Policies of their collation Partner but they will still stay the the course to be in Government.The two Parties now in Government are not compatible so it remains to be seen how long this Government will last.

nothing ever changes same shite different day

This headline should be quoting that brainless dope kenny as saying “you’ll pay THEIR dues”, as that’s surely what he means.
It’d be interesting to see what sort of pressure was brought to bear on the spineless wonder before he collapsed.
30 years and they’ll release the papers I suppose. Pity half of us’ll probably be dead of starvation by then, and the other half scattered to the 4 corners of the earth thanks to emigration.
Cheers Inda!!
Yer some boyo!

Sure hes right…borrowing more money to pay off your debts makes great sense. NOT!!! Edjit….fact.

5 point lies.

Dopey Leo, what a gobsh*te he looks.

I’d say a lot of smart business men in that room will look at Ireland’s debts and compare it to Kenny’s claims of paying it all off and wonder how Kenny ever managed to get elected to office…….

Just another example of how the Government is protecting big corporations at the expense of the taxpayer. Along with the banks the current Government is protecting the major companies in the cement and concrete industry (CRH, Readymix, Quinn) who are operating a cartel to the detriment of the Irish Economy. Its also worth noting that CRH and Readymix have historically always had cross directorships with the banks. No guesses whether this influenced the introduction of 100% mortgages for houses which main ingredients are cement and concrete!

After the cement cartel was busted in Germany in 2003 prices decreased by 50%. Imagine how much public money has been wasted on over-priced cement and concrete throughout the years. All because these major companies (CRH being the ring leaders) have exerted their influence on Government and ensured that no investigation has ever been carried out. An absolute disgrace and the current Government is no different. Richard Bruton – former employee and current shareholder in CRH!

Both FF and FG have proven that they are not fit for purpose and unelectable. Both have lie and have not keep the election policies they promised, so to be elected.

Like Jason said earlier, this means FG have lost their mandate to govern the country, they have no legal right to impose any further destruction upon us, and an election should be called,if we live in a true democrcy, which we do not.

The people of Ireland, must now get this show on the road, and find without fail, a way to create a goverment, without and FF/FG involvement, and also look, at possibly making sure FF and FG and their crones, ever take power in Ireland again.

We need Ireland for the people, not the Fat Cats and Thieves!!

Enda says he can’t change the deal. Part of his election promises was to change it and everyone told him he couldn’t.

What do people expect? This is what you get when you elect a bunch of neo-liberal anti-social right wingers. They will continue to go out of their way to bleed the country dry for the benefit of a few money men in London, Berlin, Paris and New York. This will only get worse until they are stopped dead in their tracks.

I am really getting sick of these idiots now I’m 16 and I can see what they are doing is wrong I love politics but not with these involved anymore, they should leave office seriously this is what they are doing:
30% tax break to foreign skilled workers, €170 million on household charge, €810 million on septic tanks(w/ repairs) probably over €1 Billion on septic tanks with all that are to be charged, joint highest VAT in Europe,€210 Million universal social charge, 14% unemployment, proposed charge for healthcare even for those on medical card, every promise broke, 659 school closures, an additional 500+ schools being left with less teachers, less for those poor people on social welfare who already don’t get a basic standard of living, 29% less than required in hospitals, one hospital with only 50% the amount of required midwifes, lives needlessly put at risk,€4.8 Billion per year to pay unsecured private debt,€2,250 minimum college fees per year, almost every tax raised, where does it end?

Varadkar was spokesperson for communication of all things at the time and he says one thing and the big boss says another.Ironic that.And still the Irish political circus goes on……..

Leo and kenny are compulsive liars

When did Fianna Fail make the bank guarantee and when did they sign up to the IMF?

How much money has been paid to recapitalise the banks (as opposed to pay bond holders) since the current government took power?

I know that there was the timebomb created by Brian Lenihan where he put off one payment to make sure the next minister got it, but apart from that what has been paid over?

I ask out of genuine interest as I have no idea what the answer is.

Time is coming close when we will have to get up off our arses and take out the government and start over. We need honest to god people now to get us out of this economic misery which was created by FF, developers and bankers, and now FG/Lab are continuing to destroy our hearts and souls

Good old Edna!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klG9G4BDLtA

Surely Ireland needs a new party without fianna fail fianna gael at it’s helm,we have to change the way our governments are been run cos it’s clearly not working the last 20 years at least with the lies,cheating cronyism ways,

I have just enough cash to pays my own debts so unfortunately I cannot pay other people I don’t know/ likes debts. Now please run our country with our interests in mind…… Or rev up and FCUK off.

We should have stuck with the devil we knew.

So they have finally morphed into Fianna FAILure! Henceforth Fine FAEL and their Liebour Party cohorts will carry on with the same policies as their predecessors, same shit different day, one set of gombeens replaced by another set of gombeens, this is not what people voted for, the current shower have lied their way into power on the back of peoples anger with the incompetent FF so now the alternative is either re-elect the incompetents corrupt fools who banjaxed the country or elect a bunch of Shinners with all the consequences that would entail. What a choice! Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights!

The FF government already gave billions to Anglo, that’s the money that paid off the bond holders.

Since this government has come to power no more money has gone into Anglo.

Those are the facts.

Should the government have told Anglo not to pay the money back, yes!

Has another red cent gone into Anglo yet? No!

Scumbags is too good a word for them in power

When are you guys going to get up and cast this blue shirt, fascist neo-liberal shower of f…….s. out of “OUR” parliament. They are ruining this country and its people for generations. They are so unconnected with the reality on the ground. It’s unreal. When Irish people are eating grass at the side of the road they might stand up for themselves. Until then, more of the same I’m afraid.

Now that we have video evidence of the lies that were told during the edition campaign surely something can be done about it, I don’t know what but surely something. How can they be left to run the country when they have lied to everyone.

Liars!!!!

FG/Lab OUT!!!!

I may be very cynical but I never believed that FG/Labour would do anything differently anyway. Who ever said you had to keep election promises?

Who do we put in is the question? The previous generations are so entrenched in civil war politics that they are afraid of real change. After so many years of being told what to do by church and state and believing the lies it is engrained in the Irish mind. The current generation is the only group who can transcend and move to real freedom and self determination. “The greatest tool in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” S.Biko.

Hi, my name is Leo Varadkar. I would like to clear up this little matter to avoid any further confusion among the electorate. I said not one more cent and despite outrageous claims to the contrary the government has actually lived true to that promise. We have only given the banks euros, not cents, billions and billions of euros. Thank you for your understanding.

They’re not “our dues” to pay though..

Hopefully we will have all learned a lesson for the next election and get what FG promised and have failed pathetically to deliver – change, complete political change where scum like FG, FF and labour will be confined to the shitpile of history where they belong.

Varadakar is a knob

We got rid of one set of corrupt and useless assholes and replaced them with another carbon copy set. How did so many people fall for their lies and spin? In the next election just don’t fall for more spin and lies and vote FF or our present morons back into power.

Ya see, here’s the thing I don’t get about this whole bondholder malarkey.

The original bondholders are gone. Yes, seriously. When Ireland’s yields went through the roof, and all Biffo could do was get pissed and sing songs, they saw the writing on the wall, and legged it. They sold up, for considerable losses. In layman’s terms, a hundred euro worth of bonds was sold for, say, seventy five. Or in many cases, much less. Effectively, the bondholders, many of them, burnt themselves. The big ones mainly. Which is how capitalism is meant to work when the gamble goes South. Cut your losses and all that.

In stepped the sharks and speculators, who could afford to take the hit, buying these bonds (which were considered junk by the markets for quite a while).

So, what I’m getting at is this; Enda’s conviction that we must pay our way is simplistically meritorious, but painfully wrong. His actions will gift someone a thousand euro (or million-who’s counting?), for something they paid maybe five hundred euro for. Assuming these individuals (or individual institutions, goverments or central banks) can show a paper trail to indicate what they paid for the bonds, he could justifiably assure himself that he is honouring Ireland’s debts by paying them what they paid in order to redeem said bonds.

Now, why isn’t he doing that?

Leo wanker

Greed reared its ugly head,and all the parties joined the gravy train,endlessly fuelled by us

It will be the cheapest bailout in history… Remember that one

The problem with this country and our form of government is very simple – we elect people who are not able to do the jobs they are appointed to in ministeries – example Vardkar, Kenny etc., – so what do these guys do then? – they hire advisers who are usually mates of theirs of their party – they may not be the most qualified but as long as they have the right connections they get the job.

So in effect we pay 2 people, both of whom may not necessarily be able to do the job – I mean how messed up is that.

The only way to fix this is to have a combination of elections via poll and a list system – a list system employed y other countries allows people of note who are not politicians to be appointed to a certain area of expertise – an example of this would be say selecting Michael O’ Leary – who although not a politician running for election – could be nominated to say run the department of public expenditure – therefore we would pay one highly comptetent person with a particular area of expertise to do a certain job – no need for advisors – not mafia famiy with generational legacies in politics but actually people with the skills necessary to do the job.

The benefits – we pay only one person – remove cronyism and get an effective individual doing a job they are well capable off.

Of course the issue with this is that the politicians will never go for it – after all as they say – “Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas”

Bye bye Leo

only way to teach lying scum is wipe em all out in next election and vote in some more independents like steven donnelly, while Tipp keeps returning their local cowboy Lowrey it shows the electorate haven t changed.

Unfortunately there are not enough citizens in our country truly engaged with politics, economics etc. The majority only think of these things at election and budget time. This is one reason why the same idiots keep getting elected. People vote according to party name rather than platform. Not that, that means much after the last collection of promises and lies. In a non -banana republic an election manifesto usually has some merit. So what do we do? Offer an alternative!!! The time is right. Easier said than done. How many of us would be willing to dedicate time, effort and more time and effort and maybe money to build a viable alternative. “Not too many I’m afraid”

the euro is at a critical point in its history, it may not last another week – in the words of a respected commentator John Maudlin a few weeks ago:

‘I think “polite” Ireland is just waiting until its $60-billion default is seen as small potatoes, which will not be too long, as Italy must raise almost €350 billion just to roll over current debt’

I doubt Ireland will end up paying all this money back and everything Enda says is stage managed by our Franco-German owners. The issue we now face is do we wish for Eurozone implosion to save Ireland , thereby ruining it …

Bertie and McCreevy via Cowen/Lenihan have left us at a fork in the road and either road is fraught with peril, we cannot even choose which one to take.

Whats needed here is a non partisan government, the type ot leadership that is not affilateted with any party. Since the foundation of the state politics has been corrupt, successive generations of families have voted ff, fg, sf, l, etc. just because mammy and daddy have done. It’s rotten to the core, government has no respect for tax payers money, waste is still going on this day, just look around. E.G. €6 million in unvouched expenses for these fucking freeloaders. And as for ” the most vunerable in society” €23 billion in social welfare in the past 12 months? It’s a fucking joke, I understand that there are many people on the breadline, but this is not sustainable. Many of us work 5,6,or 7 days a week and still don’t bring home the money some people on the dole do. These are the people that keep the pubs in business week in, week out. And we keep on paying our draconion taxes.??????? First and foremost job creation is the priority here, why pay a government worker ridiculous wages while there are 1000′s of people bleeding the country dry, getting paid to sit on their arses.?
There shouldn’t be a scrap of paper on the streets. It’s high time us hardworking taxpayers stand the fuck up for ourselves. Enough is enough. Maybe if we refused unilaterally to pay our taxes this excuse for government might wake up and realise the people are the power, we are in charge and warrant proper respect. They can’t put us all in jail…….

Please read this comment carefully, because if you agree you should not be offended.

We’ll pay our dues–and we’ll pay their dues as well.

Ok some of my comments deserve to be deleted! But not that. Worse things have been left up. Disgusted!!!