Water Charges (2 Viewers)

[therealjohnny]

Free money for all, yay

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Anyone from here out marching?

 

[niallmc]

Again, yep

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Again, yep

Was it specifically water charges or more of a 'fuck the government' thing?

 

[niallmc]

It was a right 2 change event but main thrust is right 2 water

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Good turnout by the looks of it, even with it being so miserable out.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Again, yep

Deadly.

How was it?

 

[therealjohnny]

Massive crowd. Great use of speakers and large screens along the route and at the meeting point, provided by the Mandate trade union. Some genuinly stirring speeches. Some old lad started talking to me about some depression era Irish boxer and wondered how come there are no Jewish boxers.

 

[pete]

Some old lad started talking to me about some depression era Irish boxer

Barry McGuigan?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

....

 

[therealjohnny]

Have to say after the positivity of the March and speeches on Saturday, the lack of or misleading news coverage is depressing. The Sunday Times had a postage stamp sized mention on the back page. The independent played down the numbers and basically called it a spent force. The online comments that are buying this just make me despair.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Have to say after the positivity of the March and speeches on Saturday, the lack of or misleading news coverage is depressing. The Sunday Times had a postage stamp sized mention on the back page. The independent played down the numbers and basically called it a spent force. The online comments that are buying this just make me despair.

Feeling better after the kicking the government have taken? Maybe the anger over water charges didn't really go away as I was saying last year.

 

[therealjohnny]

I can't be happy when Fianna Fáil have been welcomed back into the fold with open arms. FG may have taken a kicking but the status quo has been maintained.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

I can't be happy when Fianna Fáil have been welcomed back into the fold with open arms. FG may have taken a kicking but the status quo has been maintained.

Fair point. Still, looking at the long term the days of 2.5 parties are definitely past us.

 

[therealjohnny]

Yeah...lets hope something positive comes of it, and soon.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Anyone else see Simon Coveney on Prime Time last night?

Water charges are in play!

Such a crowd of fucking dopes.

 

[pete]

Shane Ross now questioning the wisdom of paying under current circumstances.

 

[therealjohnny]

I think all the money that has been paid so far should go to the Irish Water employees who are going to lose their jobs.

Oh wait..that's where it was destined anyway.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It was more than the rights and wrong of it, for me
It was the tone deaf "It's only a few fucking pennies why are you moaning?" attitude involved in telling people after everything else that happened, there was now a tax on their kid taking a shit.
And they never even committed to not privatising it.
It was spectacularly badly handled.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I really haven't too much of an ideological issue with a water charge.

Issue for me was giving the cunts something that they would inevitably privatise.

(though these days everything is privatised anyway - you leave the shell of a public service in place which then contract out all the actual work - a horrible way to run a society)