FF are worrined about Civil unrest following the next budget

[Digout]

The outgoing FF government are getting worried, getting very worried. I think they know its game up, but its just a matter of when. In todays "independent"

The country is facing the prospect of a general election on June 5 in the wake of three months of political turmoil and possible civil unrest following the emergency budget, according to former Fianna Fail strategist Noel Whelan.

The thing we must worry about, is what stunts will FF pull before they are booted from office?

Civil unrest 'may force June poll' - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

[Wakeupcall]

I think we all should be worried.

If 4Bn will cause this much problems, what will the other how many Bn that needs to be saved?

[readmylips]

You see when they caused a problems via blackmailling or segregations because of the down turn or i would say they started it before the down turn anyways so what do we expect, confrontations and civil unrest we occur in the country because they fail to realize that, ireland is not for nationalist alone other people has the right to dwelling and economic viabilty aswell, before they turn them to traveller by force because of lack of inabilty to manage the country economy. :mrgreen:

Additionally, a segregational budget will cause nothing but chaos anyway.

[Murra]

I'm not worried at all. I, like everybody else, know that harsh cuts have to be made. Like most people, I don't mind taking the pain as long as it's seen to be fairly distributed - and that is the key to this whole endeavour.

The problem only arises for FF, because they really cannot see how to fairly tackle this problem. They really believe that a certain percentage of people in this country (namely, themselves and their cronies) are justified in holding on to the wealth that they erroneously, and often illegally acquired. If they screw up this budget yet again, if they don't hit the wealthy hard - then they are definately doomed.

[Digout]

It would love to see riots and the city on fire.

[The Red Rose of Cork]

It would love to see riots and the city on fire.

the rebuilding required after the unrest would be just the boost that the construction industry needs.

maybe its all part of a cunning FF plan !

[readmylips]

It would love to see riots and the city on fire.

Can one person riot legally ? :mrgreen:

You need to sort out yourself and free our passport off your control and see foryourself dude. l.o.l

[Clanrickard]

It would love to see riots and the city on fire.

Stupid post. No normal person wants to see unrest. Listening to some commentators they sound almost gleeful at the prospect of rioting. I expect that from the left with their sad bitter and twisted view of the world but for proper commentators in main stream media outlets to prophesying the same is irresponsible. Injuries, deaths and destruction of livelihoods is never a cause for glee.

[He3]

If Whelan is trailing this idea of a June GE, it is for a reason.

On the point of civil unrest, that arises in a political vacuum. FF do not know how to lead, they only know how to manage in the interests of their friends. So we have our vacuum now.

If you tried to design the worst possible government to confront the present difficulties, you could hardly do better that this one.

[jmcc]

A problem would be if dissidents thought that targeting those perceived to have been responsible for the mess might gain them some support. However the unrest might be more low key with a few flashpoints. Those might be where people have to compete for scarce welfare resources. What you may also see is people and businesses beginning to withhold taxes as the recession bites because they are faced with either paying taxes or staying in business. The multicult people are also going to become extremely unpopular and funding to bogus left wing quangos will be cut. One potentially scary outcome of this would be the rise of a hard Right in Ireland that has popular support. If FF does not address the foreign aid problem in the mini-budget that will be used as a rallying point. The minibudget might be the most crucial in Irish history but I think that FF knows that if it passes, it will destroy FF as an electoral power for at least a generation.Perhaps they hope that there will be an election and they will leave FG/etc to try to sort out the mess.

Regards...jmcc