AA Roadwatch report major traffic jams in Newry as public sector workers go shopping.

[DeathKnell]

Kevin can you not just accept that even if no PS workers were in newry yesterday it is still a major pr blunder and hasn't helped your casue in any way.

Wait for it......

[DeathKnell]

You are falling for it. You have no way of knowing just what sector those who flooded into Newry are employed in.
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Evidence does not really sit well with you does it dear.. Black is white and white is black.. Just as long as you can justify it in your own head..

[Kevin Doyle]

Evidence does not really sit well with you does it dear.. Black is white and white is black.. Just as long as you can justify it in your own head..

What evidence?

[Kevin Doyle]

Kevin can you not just accept that even if no PS workers were in newry yesterday it is still a major pr blunder and hasn't helped your casue in any way.

If there where no PS workers in Newry how could it be a PR blunder?

[grainne whale]

If ANYONE is considering shopping up North, just remember to give the money that you have saved to your local charity, ie. St. Vincent de Paul.

[dub14]

You are falling for it. You have no way of knowing just what sector those who flooded into Newry are employed in.

Secondly what PS workers do after they have done their strike duty is nobodies business but their own.They have withdrawn their labour and they werent getting paid. So even if they did go shopping you're getting bent out of shape over nothing and allowing any old nonsense to reinforce your prejudice.

For once (and probably only once) I'll agree with KD on this. I fail to see the relevance of what they did yesterday. In mind there is no difference in going Shopping or going to the Zoo for example. Maybe they should have all been picketing but then how could that work ? There wouldn't be enough space on the pavements. The fact that they are shopping in Newry in the first place is something that I grapple with all the time and have now come down on the side that it is okay on the basis that a) the government have taken no steps to reverse the trend and b) we have seen evidence of epic waste by this government all year and again we have had no accountability, recourse or dare I say payback. Why should any of us continue to subsidise that (apologies for dragging the thread off course)

If we are talking about PR then the Russians in their prime would have been proud of RTE and they way they ran with this story - pro government propaganda at its best. However the real story was Vincent Browne on the picket lines - that gave us a great insight into what we are up against, the culture of entitlement, poor us, not and inch etc etc etc. I laughed at the shopping but got annoyed watching VB

[myksav]

Again, where is the proof?


Have you any idea how many Private sector workers took the day off to mind the kids?

Even if a good minority of the exodus North yesterday where PS workers, just what exactly is wrong with that? People who are strapped for cash will make good on Harneys advice and shop around or is that option only credible whne a private sector worker does it?

The indo has outdone itself today with its tabloid rubbish. Not a shred of proof, merely opinion posing as fact.

Proof? Hmm, how about proving that the public sector workers didn't head north to Newry?

The vast majority of private sector workers were, (what's the word? oh yeah) working.
The vast majority of public sector workers were not working.
The numbers of southern shoppers in Newry went through the roof.
The newly unemployed who would have time, wouldn't have the money to do a big shop.

Who had the time off and the money?

Even if a good minority of the exodus North yesterday where PS workers, just what exactly is wrong with that?

Weren't ye supposed to be on strike/picket?

Occam's Razor.

[grainne whale]

They all had notices on their cars, to say that the were Public Servants, didn't they?

[pd_phoenix]

If there where no PS workers in Newry how could it be a PR blunder?

because everyone belives that there was, no come on just admit it yesterday was a disaster for ye

[myksav]

They all had notices on their cars, to say that the were Public Servants, didn't they?

Who was working and who wasn't?
The private sector was working, the public sector wasn't working.
Those working didn't go to Newry.

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I see a strong note of stridency from PS posters here. Ye got 'caught out' and don't like it.