Biffo has the Greens on a short leash. Green Party Sultan of Spin Eamonn 'Slick as snot on a goat's glass eye' Ryan and his PR machine provide a case in point. In return for selling their soul on Tara, CIA flights in Shannon, Co-location etc., the Greenies are reduced to spinning today's threadbare nonsense: a tax package for non-existant oil deposits. The Emperor's new clothes...
Give them a couple of years and judge them then. Bit early to judge. Still think there is ample opportunity and they could come out of this government smelling of roses if they plan well ahead.
Yes, that initiative is in fact all that Fianna Fáil have allowed us to achieve in exchange for compromising on the issues you mention. Perhaps we should have saved it up until closer to the election, but in any case our Ministers will now sit quietly for the remainder of the government's term.Originally Posted by Apparatchik
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Yawn!
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” Napoléon Bonaparte
yeah, be fair, give them a chance
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892,
I agree. As much as everybody watching from the sidelines wants to see the greens get spanked at the next election for becoming the PDs, i'd say give them a chance. I don't think they can be expected to or be held responsible for decisions of the previous government. It is unfortunate for them that they now have to continue to implement and oversee existing policies.
Also, how can even green members expect John and Eamon to walk into cabinet and demand that all of the above issues are resolved the way they want them resolved. The issues you are talking about are done deals. Wait until fresh issues come to the cabinet table and then judge them.
Michael Courtney,
Lusk
If all these issues were 'done deals' then why did the Greens campaign against them in the election. A bit of show-boating perhaps?? God love Cuffe. Looks like his party's "deal with the devil" is going to squeeze him in DL...as for Gormless in DSE and Eamonn Ryan in DS - they are going to have to incinerate any of their remaining manifestos if they are going to get in next time....now where could they find an incinerator???
There won't be too many incinerators now that the PfG has pulled the rug out from under the financial models the developers were using.
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” Napoléon Bonaparte
There won't be too many incinerators now that the PfG has pulled the rug out from under the financial models the developers were using.
Now now SPN, it's expecting way too much of our opponents to have actually read the PfG in any detail. Soundbites are so much more meaningful.
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