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Really liked the put down from Gilmore to RBB during Foreign Affairs Questions on Wednesday. On a Palestine protest issue, RBB launched into his usual anti-Israel rant, only for Gilmore to state that he was more interested in the protest than the Palestinians. :D
Funny because it's true, etc.
Yeah, poor Israel, poor wee lambs.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Never had you down as a lefty....Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Take your tongue out of your cheek or at least turn on your sarcasm detector.
Was just playing actually. I quite like RBB, not afraid to say what he feels and lays into the Zionist mad men in Israel.
Yeah that's his problem. He should think. Breathe. And then not talk. He's a cretin of a man.
Well maybe you should stand for election and be elected by your peers then you can be in a position to tell him not to talk ;)
And maybe I should start playing for Ireland so I can criticise Paul McShane.
I'm also thinking of trying to set up the biggest band in the world to make sure I can criticise Coldplay.
Heaven's above man.
It's a bit easier to get involved in politics than play professional football or be a professional singer. Thinking and talking, and lord knows you can do that, is something we can all do. RBB puts in a power of work for working class people and do so before he got a wage for it. You do what for the better of your community? Criticising others who do something, while you sit and do nothing but snipe online and call them 'cretins' is a bit daft.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
How do you know I don't?
Give me strength, Lord. If you’re a community activist I’m a Dutchman.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Did anyone hear Marc Coleman's interview with Ming? Somehow I ended up listening to it on an early morning bus trip home and I was a little surprised. While I respect Ming for being a stay at home Dad and working extra from home. He came across as a bit brain dead. I know this is probably unfair on him, however I expected more in the debate from him on cannabis and respecting laws than trying to shift focus onto others. Unless the locals are sampling his product to a high degree (pardoning the pun) I can't see him back next time around.
Said earlier in the thread that Ming has been my big disappointment. The more I hear, the less impressed I am. Marc Colemans worse though.
I'm not a fan of Marc Coleman, I'd heard him unfairly skewer a few people before, and he's too jumpy in his technique, but he was good with Ming. Ming's got to grow up and realise that if he wants to sit round getting stoned in the evenings he'd be better off hanging out in the hills of Roscommon or head down to Galway.
Sorry it's taken me a while to get to this but I have been too exhausted of late to even contemplate commenting on this.Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
RBB is not a Community activist. He's a professional protester. He tends to surround himself with lackeys and the crowd that follows him in the DL area aren't the most politically astute people at the best of times.
Their political ignorance helps his profile in the area.
I recently attended a local meeting hosted by the local PBPA on housing issues in DLR and it was a 90min whinge in which the information that was doled out to the adherents were blatant mistruths and deceit. Unfortunately my position precluded me from commenting on the discourse which was frankly annoying but I did what I could to clear up the lies the following day in work when contacted by the constituents.
RBB has failed miserably to actually achieve anything other than increase his vote. He has created an illusion that he gets things done but unfortunately Data Protection means that we can't actually go up against him with the Truth.
A prime example of this was an eviction in Loughlinstown in 2010 in which various things were said by RBB and PBPA but the Council, the Bailiffs and other Councillors could not refute them merely because of Data Protection.
I know the entire story surrounding this eviction and as much as I would have loved to say something about it either then or when RBB lead the family to protest outside the Council offices I couldn't/can't.
In fairness, most scandals in Irish politics break in the media, before anywhere else. The parliament set up is so formal and rigid, that TD's are usually reacting to news in the chamber, instead of breaking news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
Most scandals broken in the media are not broken by serving politicians. He should've, and perhaps still should, make up his mind is he an investigative reporter/ author, or a public representative. If he's the latter, his first duty is to break these things in the houses of the Oireachtas, not to save them up for columns or books.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
You're right: he can't be all three. Is it too much to ask that as full-time politicians they give up their previous jobs and concentrate on doing the one people elected them to do? I've never felt that serving politicians should be allowed work as journalists or have any paid role in the media.
www.claredaly.ie nuff said
This is what the wanton misuse and abuse of power over the last decade and more has reduced us to.
Reduced us to what?
Voting for the likes of Clare Daly?