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What good is the presidency ?

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  • #52
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    mike65 wrote: »
    Couldn't a (already existing) Council of State could do the same job?
    Not Constitutionally, no.


  • #53
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,832 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    MFarrell86 wrote: »
    The system that has allowed us become one of the oldest surviving parliamentary democracies in Europe ain't all that bad.
    One of the what now?
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    ...I have seen few things over the past while as unconstitutional as forcing decent people to take on the debt of irresponsible gamblers.
    Disagreeing with something doesn't make it unconstitutional. If you think it's unconstitutional, take a case to the Supreme Court - the only body in the land with the authority to actually make that determination.


  • #54
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Babooshka wrote: »
    You're right, which is why I think we're better off concentrating on turning the country inside out from within and shaking it upside down until it is run better, we don't need the sanctimonious pomp and ceremony that comes with a president and his/her entourage or creating a spunout public image, as much as we need the foundations shaken and reformed.

    I don't think we have a lot to be proud of currently, unless you're into sport. Economically and socially we desire a lot. I don't know what your last two words meant.
    We live in a global world, self sufficiency is a thing of the past. We need to focus on what we have that we can sell. Lucky that's renewable resources and energy. Britain is a large buyer of energy and we could offset a significant amount of our "outgoings" by producing surplus renewable energy.


  • #55
    Babooshka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Babooshka


    I am in lots of relationships whereby I depend on others and they depend on me, but I still consider my self reasonably self sufficient (yes no man is an island, I know!).

    My point was about worrying less about image and getting our "name" out there (re the points Paddyandy made above) and more about making things right from within before we go promoting ourselves. Let's have something worth promoting and sort ourselves out before we go poncing off to lots of countries looking for a pat on the head for being great. So yes, concentrating on renewable energy, great idea...couldn't our minister for trade and enterprise do that, do we need a president for that?


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