Re: A tale of two Irelands.

Originally Posted by
Holly
There are a lot more people in the cities than in rural areas and people continue to gravitate to conurbations. What a bizarre sense of fairness it would be were the government to build a school in a remote unpopulated countryside every time one was built in a city .... a bit like the racist South Africans boasting that every rand spend on white public schools was matched by a rand spent in the Bantustan schools despite a populations ratio of 1:14.
And there are more voters in urban areas .... and the biggest conurbation did turf out the Minister who's plan (rural school transport scheme) the present government is now implementing. One of the many obscene things the last Fianna Fail government did was to cut services and raise prices AKA highway robbery. Now this government is treading the same road. This government shouldn't underestimate the rural vote.
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