Labour in 2012

[natural20]

During some conversation last night my feelings on Labour's current political actions finally crystalised. Since the election and through the budget I've had the sense that they were doing things because they had to and I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. However now that Seán Sherlock is proceeding with his completely unnecessary

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[giftederic]

Who are you inclined to vote for instead? You have limited options.

[megabitch]

Extremely limited, they're all bloody politicians.

[korenwolf]

This is the problem, the major incumbent parties are all in hock to large vested interests, they're all in bed with the media and all about ensuring their 'tribe' does the best out of their time in office regardless of what is best for the country.

As the years go by my contempt for the whole lot of them and their camp followers in the print media (on all sides of the fence) just keeps growing.

The recent kerfuffle in Westminster over "top totty" beer was a classic example. Lots of shouting about the name of a beer and it's logo (discussion on whether it's good / name logo should go elsewhere), no comment from the media on the subsidy the bar gets, or that it's in a workplace (Westminster) or that the political classes (left and right) are on a holy crusade against drinking (except where they are concerned it appears).

Bloody hypocrites the lot of them.

In that case the brewery did have the last laugh, the replacement beer they supplied was "Kangaroo Court".

[jinxed_wood]

I would have thought they'd have begun to have reservations after the fiasco surrounding SOPA and PIPA in the US, and thats not even factoring in the reactions of companies like Google and Facebook, who are opposed to these laws. Maybe not the brightest idea to alienate the two biggest companies propping up the only growth sector in Irish employment.

Perhaps they should pay less attention to groups like the MPAA, who are notoriously generous when it comes to campaign donations but contibute little to the Irish economy.

[mylescorcoran]

The talk of TDs ignoring emails as the majority are “kicking up about it are probably pirates themselves” (see the comment at http://stopsopaireland.com/end-game-why-your-td-visits-make-the-difference/ about Emmet Stagg for example) just infuriates me. Labour and FG are giving the clear signal that democratic will is less important that lobbyists and wealthy campaign contributors.

[pgmcc]

I'm sorry, but I gave up on Labour in 1982. On a TV interview during the November election, then Labour leader, Michael O'Leary, was asked, "What are Labour's policies?"

I sat up to hear some good socialist ideals.

His reply: "It is Labour's policy to go into coalition with whichever party has more seats."

That was when I realised there are three conservative parties in Ireland and none of them is any good for the people of the country.

[korenwolf]

Or rephrased "it's our policy to get into power regardless of what we have to do because we want power".

Douglas Adams had it right.

[pgmcc]

"it's our policy to get into power regardless of what we have to do because we want power".

Exactly; they follow the Green's manifesto.

[sares2000]

I feel you pain, man. Been there, done that, have seen the corrosive influence of being in Government. And why is it that supposedly liberal, progrssive parties (for whatever value you'd care to assign to those words) seem to have such a thing for restricting alcohol? I was pretty pissed off that the PDs' policy of liberalising pub licensing laws got dropped and replaced by... the 10 pm offie deadline