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[quote="« WeAreTheRomans »" post="« 477269743 »"] they did all three [/quote] True but I'd rather they didn't cut the tax and just spent/saved.
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julian assflange posted:True but I'd rather they didn't cut the tax and just spent/saved. I think most reasonable people would agree. Infrastructure spending and services have been starved for a decade, they badly need to recover. And they benefit everyone in the country. Most polls showed the electorate in general favoured spending increases over tax cuts too. This new, even more right-wing than usual, FG however left to their own devices would probably have just drastically reduced the upper rate of tax. So that the "squeezed middle" of "people who get up every morning" who earn far in excess of the median income could have more disposable income. Those truly suffering in society, you know?
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The Examiner started off one of their summary articles with «Hard working families », further cementing its rag status
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How are people reacting to the incoming hurricane?
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Kurtofan posted:How are people reacting to the incoming hurricane? I’m not reacting to it as the weather has been poo poo anyway, OP
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I'm going to make shitloads of unnecessary journeys
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I cycle to work so I’ll probably have to wear a coat tomorrow or something. Will be windy during the middle of the day I think
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julian assflange posted:I cycle to work so I’ll probably have to wear a coat tomorrow or something. Will be windy during the middle of the day I think Better call my mam in Cork to bring in the lawn gnomes for the night
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My wife’s work have told her to work from home tomorrow. Maybe there is something to this....
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Red alert folks. Stay safe.
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Entropy238 posted:Red alert folks. Stay safe. no
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Oct 15, 2017 21:58
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hope you get blown away now you bollocks
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Entropy238 posted:hope you get blown away now you bollocks Thanks hun xoxo
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Entropy238 posted:hope you get blown away now you bollocks This
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Fierce windy
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kustomkarkommando posted:Fierce windy Thought you were up North? e: me Ma says its a "bit gusty" in Cork but " i remember back in the 60's when it was so bad cars were sent flying like in "back to the future"" . sounds class
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Thought you were up North? Derry so technically we are in the path from about noon, won't be getting quite the battering as Kerry but considering we lost a couple of bridges earlier this year from the NW flooding a lot of people are playing it safe. P much half the city is closing by the sounds of it
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The Donald claims we are dropping our corporate tax rate http://www.thejournal.ie/corporation-tax-trump-ireland-3649969-Oct2017/ (in general)
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Is it time to sound the auld election siren? https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/933767119703027718 Haven't gone as far as saying they will vote in favour of the no confidence motion SF tabled today but are threatening to table their own if she's not sacked/resigned by next week. Does Leo want to see this off to the other side of the year or bite the bullet and go for a (cold) snap election?
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I think she'll be forced to resign internally by FG. I don't think either of FF/FG want an election so soon, especially an almost unheard of one in mid/late December. Leo isn't going to want to go to the polls over this because it paints FG in a very bad light. It would become the dominant issue of the election cycle. But FF also probably want to wait another few months to see if Leo's good-PR-bounce wears off, and to let them engage in more fund-raising.
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Flanagan interrupted the Dáil and accused Alan Kelly of launching a 'smear campaign' by asking which officials knew about the attacks on McCabe. (15 Nov) Now we know Flanagan was one of those officials who knew?? This is all really funny. There's a real Streisand effect with this McCabe stuff.
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Its a scandal that just keeps slowly chugging along, this like what year 3 now?
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Also as per the examiner, Coveney being p bluntquote:Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has confirmed that if Fianna Fáil tables a threatened motion of no confidence in Frances Fitzgerald, the confidence and supply agreement that underpins the Government is over. So if Fitzgerald doesn't resign its all hosed, Leo isn't going to sack her and admit weakness by the sound of it, if Martin backs down at the 11th hour I would expect a heave against him in FF.
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There's no way they'll do an election before christmas right? That will suck major shite.
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I had to look it up because I forgot that the initial whistleblowing incident wasn't the GSOC bugging scandal but rather the thing over penalty point systems abuse.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:There's no way they'll do an election before christmas right? That will suck major shite. Probably early January - the Brexit thing is coming up on the 14th and then there's the whole Christmas thing to get over. A successful no confidence motion won't immediately trigger a dissolution but without the confidence and supply agreement with FF the government is on death watch and FG may not be able to/want to keep things chugging along until spring (which is supposedly the preferred date for both parties before the latest revelations)
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kustomkarkommando posted:Probably early January - the Brexit thing is coming up on the 14th and then there's the whole Christmas thing to get over. I'm genuinely amazed it lasted as long as it did.
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I wonder if this would speed up Adams timetable - if there's an election in Jan are they sending him to the leaders debates?
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I remember listening to someone on RTÉ talking about how little legislation is being passed right now under this supply/confidence deal, including legislation for the marriage ref. If it's true then maybe we need an election sooner than later, seeing as SF are willing to go into coalition, so we can have a proper coalition gov.
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Bedshaped posted:I remember listening to someone on RTÉ talking about how little legislation is being passed right now under this supply/confidence deal, including legislation for the marriage ref. The FF ard fheis voted by significant margin to reject any coalition with SF though (and I doubt an FG coalition is in the cards) - you could say that if it'd be the difference between power and no power they might budge but with the continued situation up here in the North pro-coalition forces in FF may find the timing a bit off.
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I thought the timing with the gov. getting hard on the UK re the brexit border issues before SF's sudden amenability to coalition was maybe a signal that some kind of coalition with FG might be possible.
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I'm not sure an FG coalition would be palatable for their voters. FF, maybe? The blue shirts may be a push
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FF/SF is way more likely than FG/SF. Both would be poo poo though.
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Well FF have lodged their own no confidence motion for next Tuesday (meaning they get to skip out awkwardly supporting SFs) https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/934018118782980096 Some chatter now from unnamed FG heads that as far as they are concerned the confidence and supply agreement as dead as this is a violation of the clause stipulating FF are not to support no confidence motions in any minister and ultimately the vote is immaterial.
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khwarezm posted:I don't remember it being particularly negative. The worst stuff I'd hear from people like my dad, who in principle had no problem with gay marriage, complain that the campaign was being hijacked by Sinn Fein (yes, before anyone says anything I heard a lot about "those murdering bastards!" when I was growing up). I believe only one county overall voted against it. The Marriage Equality referendum was absolutely loving horrible, and I never want to be put through anything like that again. (e: Sorry but it was really bad) Came in here to have a lol about a possible Christmas election. https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/934069498910576640 https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status/934012830038282240 ireland.txt e: not seeing that last point being mentioned anywhere else, kinda sounds like bullshit. irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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