Willie O’Dea, John McGuinness & others made representations for lawyers.

[The Herren]

It is this nonsense that has us the way we are. TDs are in palce to legislate.
A gobdaw goes to his TD seeking to get a medical card. He is not entitled to it but the gombeen TD sends off the letter (knowing full well) and a copy goes to the gobdaw to show 'how de gombeen TD worked on behalf of de gobdaw. De gombeen even hash hish clinics on a Sahurday and comes down twice in de week te funerals'.
De gombeen however never bothers to inform himself of how economies work or maybe how successful economies work
Multiply this up and down the country over weekends over decades.
Then wonder why we have antiquated legislation in so many areas or no recent legislation in area of white collar crime, no proper discussion or understanding of economic matters in the Dáil and then wonder why we are so screwed!


Go to your c.councillor about the pothole. Vote against an TD who goes to a funeral.

Or if you prefer continue to vote for gob************************es!

[The Herren]

Check out the real meaning of gombeen and post in up in big black capitals for all those other posters who continually misuse the word through ignorance.

[williewatch]

Check out the real meaning of gombeen and post in up in big black capitals for all those other posters who continually misuse the word through ignorance.

" The term referred originally to a money-lender and became associated with those shopkeepers and merchants who exploited the starving during the Irish Famine by selling much-needed food and goods on credit at ruinous interest rates."

Gombeen man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yea, pretty much sums up the ethics of our "poverty pimp" politicians. Posters, in my view, are using the term correctly. Just look at those fabulous ministerial pensions being extracted from the taxpayers.

FYI...Poverty pimp or "professional poverty pimp" is a pejorative label used to convey that an individual or group is benefiting unduly by acting as an intermediary on behalf of the poor, the disadvantaged, or some other "victimized" groups.

Those who use this appellation suggest that those so labeled profit unduly from the misfortune of others, and therefore do not really wish the societal problems that they appear to work on to be eliminated permanently, as it is not in their own interest for this to happen.

Poverty pimp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Think about this the next time you call to your TDs clinic

[leftsoc]

The solution is quite simple:
Any interference in the apparatus of the state by a TD needs to be made a criminal offence. If convicted the TD should face a minimum of five years in jail and disqualified from ever holding elected office.
A full and comprehensive trawl of any and all appointments to the judiciary made in this way needs to be carried out at once.
Any judge found to have acted improperly in seeking office( 'canvassing will disqualify' is a concept well understood in public service recruitment) shall be duly impeached and lose all pension rights.
The low standards of many of our judiciary will be duly exposed.

Anyone who needs a backbencher to write a letter for him is hardly well-in with the Party.

After 25 year years (more or less) of FF governement, the judiciary as it stands is choc-a-bloc with FFers. If the present governement gave up its right to nominate judges the balance could never be rectified. It would be like saying that the RUC could be religion blind from a certian date, it wouold not work, it would take two generations to get a correct balance in the RUC, that was why positive discrimination had to be brought to the process.

The FFers are all over the Guards and RTE etc. It is a real problem that will not go away , even if the FF vote decined further. Despite De-Nazification in West Germany, well into the seventies, those who had joined the Nazi party in the thirties were still way ahead , career-wise, of those who stayed human in the thirties.

De-FFing policy required ?