Lenihan, Joan and Noonan on Pat Kenny now

[DCon]

Kenny asking some good questions. Re local government, Keny asks that if local councils are given the choice of raising taxes or cutting fat will they raise taxes every time. No concise answer from the politicians..

[Baron von Biffo]

Kenny throws out the idiocy that the unemployed should have been forced to clear footpaths during the bad weather.

[DCon]

Kenny throws out the idiocy that the unemployed should have been forced to clear footpaths during the bad weather.

Maybe some of them should have been sent to Malta too, to carry Minister Dempsey around. No State car over there and you would not want Noel getting tired..

[Baron von Biffo]

Maybe some of them should have been sent to Malta too, to carry Minister Dempsey around. No State car over there and you would not want Noel getting tired..

That one's gone over my head.

[Baron von Biffo]

Noonan gone bananas.

[Baron von Biffo]

It's clear that the FG plan is to allow CB to wither away. The first step is to maintain a token payment for working families and give a top up up to those on welfare. We would inevitably see this top up being 'integrated' into the dependent child part of family SW.

[DCon]

That one's gone over my head.

When there was the snow crisis, Dempsey was holidaying in Malta.

[Baron von Biffo]

Amalgamation of tax and PRSI will expose the state to significant extra costs as the self employed and PS workers recruited before 1995 would then become eligible for SW benefits that they are currently not entitled to.

[DCon]

Noonan gone bananas.

In fairness, Joan is pretending that everyone will get more money and nobody (except the self employed very well off) will pay more tax. Hardly realistic.

[DCon]

Lenihan: Ireland will need a strong FF to police the new government :)

Classic

[Baron von Biffo]

In fairness, Joan is pretending that everyone will get more money and nobody (except the self employed very well off) will pay more tax. Hardly realistic.

She didn't get a chance to say anything before Noonan went ballistic. FG are probably feeling a bit sensitive about their CB plans getting too much of an airing before 10.00 tomorrow night.

[Baron von Biffo]

We should think long and hard before introducing business loan guarantees. Dishonesty is endemic in the Irish business sector and it would inevitably lead to the taxpayer picking up even more bills run up by crooks.

[Baron von Biffo]

Burton making sense on the IMF deal.

[DCon]

Lenihan: We would have sold AIB to Santander for 1 euro.

[DCon]

Lenihan now pleading/begging with the public to give FF an oul vote so they can hold the new government to account.

Haughey would turn in his grave if he wasn't enjoying himself in hell.

[C. Flower]

Lenihan now pleading/begging with the public to give FF an oul vote so they can hold the new government to account.

Haughey would turn in his grave if he wasn't enjoying himself in hell.


Equally as nauseating - Phil Hogan last night ogling and begging FF'ers to "lend" their votes to his project.

[C. Flower]

Lenihan: We would have sold AIB to Santander for 1 euro.

That would have been a good deal for us. In fact I suggested in in Dec. 08.

[DCon]

That would have been a good deal for us. In fact I suggested in in Dec. 08.

Santander are not stupid enough to part with that euro.

[barrym]

Equally as nauseating - Phil Hogan last night ogling and begging FF'ers to "lend" their votes to his project.

Quite, it illustrates the unbelievable lack of cop of the electorate, that someone with the experience of Hogan can say such a thing. He knows that in one or two elections the same old same olds will be back in the FF camp.

Whatever happened to change??

[TotalMayhem]

Whatever happened to change??

If elections would change anything, they'd be abolished in the morning... why bother?