Really annoyed

[simonj]

I've been posting here on and off for quite a while, and most regular posters know I don't normally vent spleen on screen.

I am generally more interested in how my garden and Delaney are getting on rather than failed politicos - but I finally lost it last night.

On his latest Facebook wittering he commented on EU Bank supervision story on RTE
"Time to default? God help the poor naive Messers Kenny and Gilmore."

My response was as follows

"Niall, to date I have held my tongue and any negative comments have been kept private but I am growing increasingly exacerbated of your commentary on the crisis. It was the parliamentary group of the Green party, of which you were a part, who accepted the bailout and were partially responsible for the cause of it.

When you had the chance you could have helped stop this, but you did not, you just sold us out, so you have no ethical grounds to criticize the current situation and actions.

While you were in Government we heard the drum beat "We cannot be like Iceland" – repeated ad nausium by RTE and the Independent news group – they defaulted, no-one starved on the streets, no-one got gassed or beaten.
So you changed the tune "We cannot be like Greece" where middle class professionals now go to soup kitchens and demonstrations are suppressed violently"

I really feel pissed off that those with direct responsibility for abysmal failure feel they can comment on those trying to clean up their mess - and the most mealy mouthed, pathetic exponents of the craft seem to be former Greens

[Slim Buddha]

I've been posting here on and off for quite a while, and most regular posters know I don't normally vent spleen on screen.

I am generally more interested in how my garden and Delaney are getting on rather than failed politicos - but I finally lost it last night.

On his latest Facebook wittering he commented on EU Bank supervision story on RTE
"Time to default? God help the poor naive Messers Kenny and Gilmore."

My response was as follows

"Niall, to date I have held my tongue and any negative comments have been kept private but I am growing increasingly exacerbated of your commentary on the crisis. It was the parliamentary group of the Green party, of which you were a part, who accepted the bailout and were partially responsible for the cause of it.

When you had the chance you could have helped stop this, but you did not, you just sold us out, so you have no ethical grounds to criticize the current situation and actions.

While you were in Government we heard the drum beat "We cannot be like Iceland" – repeated ad nausium by RTE and the Independent news group – they defaulted, no-one starved on the streets, no-one got gassed or beaten.
So you changed the tune "We cannot be like Greece" where middle class professionals now go to soup kitchens and demonstrations are suppressed violently"

I really feel pissed off that those with direct responsibility for abysmal failure feel they can comment on those trying to clean up their mess - and the most mealy mouthed, pathetic exponents of the craft seem to be former Greens

Simon,. in all fairness to the Greens (and since I never thought much of the Greens, I veer easily towards unfairness in dealing with them) they had little or no imput into economic policy. That was a PD template reinforced by the lobby fodder of FF. If any minority party should shoulder the lions share of the blame for the catastrophic failure of economic policy, it is the Progressive Democrats and Mary Harney in particular. In 2004, the neo-liberal ideologues (Harney and McCreevy) left eoconomic policy in the hands of Ahern, Cowen and (unbelievably) Mary Coughlan (!). with predictable results.

By the time the Greens got there, the damage was done and the entire ponzi scheme began to unravel. If the Greens are to be criticised for anything, it is for hanging on for pensions and propping up a drunk, criminally-inclined and utterly incompetent cabal of contemptable cretins. I, for one, will never forgive the Greens for that.

[Sam Lord]

It is not clear to me who Simonj was responding to.

[Baron von Biffo]

It is not clear to me who Simonj was responding to.

At a guess:-



Niall O'Brolcháin, former supporter of Ahern and Cowen governments.

[Kev Bar]

At a guess:-



Niall O'Brolcháin, former supporter of Ahern and Cowen governments.

Ta.

[Binn Beal]

Thanks for that clarification but is it not somebody called Delaney that the OP is annoyed at? When venting spleen one should try and be clear about what the venting is all about.

[Baron von Biffo]

Thanks for that clarification but is it not somebody called Delaney that the OP is annoyed at? When venting spleen one should try and be clear about what the venting is all about.

From Simon's other posts I think that Mr. Delaney may be quadrupedal.

[Kev Bar]

Thanks for that clarification but is it not somebody called Delaney that the OP is annoyed at? When venting spleen one should try and be clear about what the venting is all about.

I expect Delaney is quite faithful to the master's commands unlike the pol in question.

[simonj]

At a guess:-



Niall O'Brolcháin, former supporter of Ahern and Cowen governments.

Yup - you could not be more right

[simonj]

I expect Delaney is quite faithful to the master's commands unlike the pol in question.

Kev dude - you really could not be more wrong But thanks a ton for cheering me up

[bernadette]

I really feel pissed off that those with direct responsibility for abysmal failure feel they can comment on those trying to clean up their mess - and the most mealy mouthed, pathetic exponents of the craft seem to be former Greens

+10

[Holly]

I am sure the Greens were complicit in the bank guarantee. By the time that mistake was made, the Greens were in the cabinet and they voted in support of it in the Dáil together with Finne Gwael.

[disability student]

I am sure the Greens were complicit in the bank guarantee. By the time that mistake was made, the Greens were in the cabinet and they voted in support of it in the Dáil together with Finne Gwael.

The Greens approved it without looking at the letter nor the finer details of it. It's like signing a legal contract without having seen a contract themselves. It's totally unprofessional and lazy manner way of doing it.

FG are fast becoming more like FF just like the twins.

[Holly]

...
FG are fast becoming more like FF just like the twins.

Fundamentally, there is no difference between Finne Gwael and Fianna Fail while Labour has self-imploded.

[Dr. FIVE]

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