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A Nest of Fine Gael Labour Highly Paid Neo Liberals
Pay and Conditions Slashed for Little People – Government Handlers on Big Money
News : http://feeds.examiner.ie/~r/ietopstories/~3/GgYih_Sxfgo/
A little more detail from a Cedar Lounge Discussion :
Must admit I had never heard of Mark Garrett before following these comments – he gets a significant mention here :
https://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/time-for-a-technocratic-government-in-ireland/ Read the rest of this entry »
Remember in December “When Labour Wrestles With Its Conscience, Labour Always Wins”
An interesting article from the Irish Examiner : http://feeds.examiner.ie/~r/ietopstories/~3/Zg1NinWii-8/
The author of that cruel jibe was ex Fianna Fail taoiseach Sean Lemass – history repeats itself first as tragedy..
The Billion Dollar Anglo Irish Bond – Cedar Lounge Revolution – and the Greece Referendum
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-billion-dollar-anglo-bond/
and a cartoon which says it all :
More, from the NAMA Winelake :
Dave Allen has the last word :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5y_gE1Rb1Y
Helena Sheehan Leaves the Labour Party
Here is a very welcome statement from Helena Sheehan (copied from her facebook page).
I do not however agree with supporting Michael D Higgins in the Presidential Race – in other blogs I have argued that the radical left should try to convert the presidential election into a proxy referendum on ECB / IMF Reverse Robin Hood “stealing from the poor, giving to the rich” menu.
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/meanwhile-back-at-the-presidential-election-campaign/
More recently Robert Ballagh has promoted a similar strategy, but has made it clear he will not himself be a candidate :
Time to leave the Labour Party
It is time to draw a line under my 30 year membership of the Labour Party. It is past time actually, as I have not been active at branch or constituency level for the past 15 years. There were many reasons for this, including the demands of my academic job. I did remain active politically, but not in a way that was so focused on the Labour Party or even electoral politics. I recognise the importance of electoral politics, but it has never been the area in which I felt I had a particular contribution to make. During the years of Labour Left, of which I was a founding member, we tried to create a deeper political intellectual culture in the Labour Party. Once this ended, I didn’t see so much of a role for myself. Nevertheless, I remained. Read the rest of this entry »
Nobody is denying US torpedoed plan to save the Irish State €20bn — Only Gene Kerrigan is asking
We are paying Gene Kerrigan the compliment of reproducing his entire article in today’s Sunday Independent (June 19 2011).
We covered this ground during the recent general election campaign.
https://tomasoflatharta.com/2011/02/05/make-a-bonfire-of-irish-banking-vanities/
No apologies for the action replay.
We also recommend the following articles from Vanity Fair and the British Guardian – very relevant to Gene’s article.
Let us hope the United Left Alliance TD’s run with this ball
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103
We’re shamed by conspiracy of silence
Nobody is denying US torpedoed plan to save the State €20bn — but no one’s asking either, writes Gene Kerrigan Read the rest of this entry »
Tomás Ó Flatharta 