Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v2.0

MungBean

Spudmonkey wrote: »

Hey, you're doing the same....

I'm not doing the same. I hold the people in government responsible for the decisions that government is making.

Callan57

I would have left leaning sympathies & I'm livid at what has been done to our country, our economy & the lives of so many people all over Europe but Joe Higgins, Clare Daly, Richard Boyd Barrett et al are just not articulating any coherent alternatives.

Scary and all as things are I would be truly petrified if any of them got anywhere near being in a position of power.

MungBean

Callan57 wrote: »

I would have left leaning sympathies & I'm livid at what has been done to our country, our economy & the lives of so many people all over Europe but Joe Higgins, Clare Daly, Richard Boyd Barrett et al are just not articulating any coherent alternatives.

Scary and all as things are I would be truly petrified if any of them got anywhere near being in a position of power.

But you know they are not in a position of power. You know the people voting for them never believed they could be in a position of power. They are a small party with 5 elected members representing a minority view and thats about the extent of it.

I'm under no delusions about the economical soundness of the ULA's policies but I'm a great deal more concerned about the fact that the people in positions of power got there by uttering a similar type of populist rhetoric and have shown it was lies.

Which concerns you more ? Joe Higgins harping on about something he will never achieve while only taking the average industrial wage home with him or Eamon Gilmore getting into power on the back of lies to fill his own pockets with even a member of his own party being ousted from the back benches for having the gall to disagree with the party when they chose to backtrack on the policies that got them all elected ?

JonathanAnon

Extended show again tonight... I'd say that he will have the panel wall to wall left wing and union members..

irishh_bob

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Extended show again tonight... I'd say that he will have the panel wall to wall left wing and union members..

QUANGO queens , poverty industry wage pullers and professional bleeding hearts , thats the usual panel make up on a vincent show

Plautus

I'm opening a book. Tonight, Vincent starts the show not with Enda Kenny's address to the nation but Thomas Pringle's

Someone says that people will die because of this budget.

And Vincent harangues the death out of a Fine Gael participant; that to be a TD who voted against Enda Kenny during the leadership contest last year.

Mark your bingo cards too for 'devastated', 'vulnerable, 'scandalous', 'fat cats' and 'wrecked the country.'

Lapin

How long does it take to get across Dublin from RTÉ to TV3 ?

Just wondering how long it will take Mary Lou McDonald, who is on The Frontline now.

And has been everywhere else today from what I can see or hear.

take everything

This was posted over on Politics.ie
France and Germany could be downgraded by S and P? :pac::eek:
Telegraph article though.

JonathanAnon

Lapin wrote: »

Just wondering how long it will take Mary Lou McDonald, who is on The Frontline now.

She's insufferable and she's on everything... All the shinners are.. though I think Pearse Doherty is a good performer..

Plautus

Lapin wrote: »

How long does it take to get across Dublin from RTÉ to TV3 ?

Just wondering how long it will take Mary Lou McDonald, who is on The Frontline now.

And has been everywhere else today from what I can see or hear.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=RTE,+Donnybrook,+Dublin+4+to+Ballymount+Industrial+Estate,+Ireland&saddr=RTE,+Donnybrook,+Dublin+4&daddr=Ballymount+Industrial+Estate,+Ireland&hl=en&sll=53.314262,-6.348124&sspn=0.023024,0.055189&geocode=FZeDLQMdHgeh_ylvdvI2MwlnSDEInyjPOtbRKQ%3BFXmRLQMdVjCf_ymz7Fx-ogxnSDEA9ZbxrMcABQ&vpsrc=0&doflg=ptk&t=m&z=12 - Do you think she can make it?

Lapin

Maybe Mary Loy is the new Mammy O'Rourke.

irishh_bob

possible line up

pearse doherty - sinn fein spokesperson on finance
siobhan o donohue - poverty industry hack
father sean ( fathead ) healy - social justice ireland
joan collins - ULA td - vincents proxy on the panel
brian hayes - FG junior minister = the pantomine villian and chief target of vinnys fury

woodoo

Any word on who is on?

If its Fergus Finlay i'm going to scream a wild desperate scream and maybe sob a little.

Lapin

Plautus wrote: »

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=RTE,+Donnybrook,+Dublin+4+to+Ballymount+Industrial+Estate,+Ireland&saddr=RTE,+Donnybrook,+Dublin+4&daddr=Ballymount+Industrial+Estate,+Ireland&hl=en&sll=53.314262,-6.348124&sspn=0.023024,0.055189&geocode=FZeDLQMdHgeh_ylvdvI2MwlnSDEInyjPOtbRKQ%3BFXmRLQMdVjCf_ymz7Fx-ogxnSDEA9ZbxrMcABQ&vpsrc=0&doflg=ptk&t=m&z=12 - Do you think she can make it?

Stopwatch started at 22:48:16.

Plautus

irishh_bob wrote: »

possible line up

pearse doherty - sinn fein spokesperson on finance
siobhan o donohue - poverty industry hack
father sean ( fathead ) healy - social justice ireland
joan collins - ULA td - vincents proxy on the panel
brian hayes - FG junior minister = the pantomine villian and chief target of vinnys fury

Was Father Sean by any chance the fellow who spoke to the Fianna Fail parliamentary party at their Inchydoney think-in before the 2007 general election? I believe it was after that, that Bertie started wearing socialist clothes. Not that anyone believed him.

And Brian Hayes is absolutely horrendous, to be fair. Eminently punchable.

JonathanAnon

And Brian Hayes is absolutely horrendous, to be fair.

When you see how well Pat Rabbitte put across the Government side of the argument, you realise how poor the rest of them are..

I think it's about time we called a spade a spade with regard to public finances.... We have too many public servants, so of whom are hugely overpaid, and we have waaaaay too many benefits for people who have never contributed anything to the state..

Oh_Noes

MungBean wrote: »

But you know they are not in a position of power. You know the people voting for them never believed they could be in a position of power. They are a small party with 5 elected members representing a minority view and thats about the extent of it.

Ah yeah sure a crowd of lefties with only a handful of seats could never end up in any position of prominence in government.

Plautus

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I think it's about time we called a spade a spade with regard to public finances.... We have too many public servants, so of whom are hugely overpaid, and we have waaaaay too many benefits for people who have never contributed anything to the state..

... if you tweet it, with the #vinb hashtag, the big man himself might harangue you in the comfort of your armchair

irishh_bob

Plautus wrote: »

Was Father Sean by any chance the fellow who spoke to the Fianna Fail parliamentary party at their Inchydoney think-in before the 2007 general election? I believe it was after that, that Bertie started wearing socialist clothes. Not that anyone believed him.

And Brian Hayes is absolutely horrendous, to be fair. Eminently punchable.

the very same sean ( well fed ) healey

Plautus

Vincent is extremely sarcastic before the break ... I reckon lunatic juice has been consumed in the green room. Popcorn ready everyone.

F-Stop

JonathanAnon wrote: »

When you see how well Pat Rabbitte put across the Government side of the argument, you realise how poor the rest of them are...

Guess I was watching a different programme. Rabitte, who I had time for before, came across as another arrogant better-than-thou fool, who has sold out any ideology his party was supposed to have. Very dissapointing, looks like Labour are going the way of the Greens. FG were always FF lite. Donnelly was impressive though, intelligent, informed, clear and apparently honest. The antithesis of current Irish Politics; so he's fcuked just like the rest of us.

JonathanAnon

ffs.. Vincent still cant pronounce Aodhán's name properly... Is that the sound of Vincent's left wing drum I hear in the background?

Lady Chatterton

Well Hello Pearse !!!! My evening has got a whole lot better

Plautus

Sean Sherlock is tonight's sacrificial lamb. He's going to be terrible folks, take my word. Constituency politician, he'd vote for anything so long as Mallow hospital was saved.

Allegedly the junior minister in charge of research, development and all those nice knowledge economy ... thingies.

Jess16

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I think it's about time we called a spade a spade with regard to public finances.... We have too many public servants, so of whom are hugely overpaid, and we have waaaaay too many benefits for people who have never contributed anything to the state..

And what do you propose we do with those people Jonathan? Shoot them? Leave them to fend for themselves and have them resort to petty crime because they aren't employable?

I agree with you in theory but in practice it's a very difficult scenario to address and how a nation supports their most weak is the hallmark of a civilised society

Plautus

Vulnerable *marks card*

Max_Charger

Hurranging *marks card*

themadchef

MrsD007 wrote: »

Well Hello Pearse !!!! My evening has got a whole lot better

Bold corner

Vincent probably didint sleep last night, so looking forward to this.

Oh the joy of Vincent of Budget night. Priceless.

hotmail.com

The Labour guy is basing his belief on ignorance? Unbelievable.

Plautus

'We are entitled to know if you have a credible source for that (claim that the state would collapse)'

Oh Vincent. Marry me.