Ruairi Quinn wants a communist state!

kunst nugget

A FINE Gael TD has accused Education Minister Ruairi Quinn and a prominent Labour deputy of wanting "a communist state" in Ireland.

The comments from Cork East deputy Tom Barry come amid already heightened tensions between the coalition partners over the changes to means tests for college grants.

Mr Barry also said Labour thinks farmers buy "tractors to go to Mass in – not that any of them would know the inside of a church anyway".

I bet that Labour crowd are all wife-swapping sodomites as well. Grrrr.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/education/fine-gael-td-says-quinn-wants-to-establish-a-communist-state-29108494.html

Prodigious

Ruarí Quinn is a bollóx.

super_furry

Enda Kenny wants to make love to a helicopter!

A Labour TD has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny and a prominent Fine Gael Deputy of wanting to make love to a helicopter in Ireland.

kunst nugget

Methememb wrote: »

Ruarí Quinn is a bollóx.

Nothing a bit of churching wouldn't sort out…

JuliusCaesar

A FINE Gael TD has accused Education Minister Ruairi Quinn and a prominent Labour deputy of wanting "a communist state" in Ireland.

And Bertie was a socialist...

ejmaztec

We'll have a whip round and buy him North Korea. A fiver should cover it.

AnonoBoy

The People's Republic of We're Banjaxed.

For Paws

"Either they grow up or they can go their own way," Mr Barry said.

Results of Red C poll in last Sunday's Sunday Business Post

Projected result % seats
FG 28.00% 50
LP 12.00% 23
FF 26.00% 45
SF 16.00% 24
ULA/SP* 2.70% 4
GP 2.00% 1
OTH* 13.30% 19
100.00% 166

Result of Labour doing as Mr Barry suggested = FG out of Goverment.
Barry = Idiot ?

ScumLord

I don't get it though. They don't really say why he is supposed to be communist? If he's removing funding that's like the exact opposite of communism surely.

seamus

"not that any of them would know the inside of a church anyway"

Tom Barry's opinion has instantly become irrelevant since he believes that someone's church attendance or lack thereof has any meaning.

mike65

Sadly there is a seriously retrogressive rump within Fine Girl, the type that Alice Glenn used to lead and who just won't quite die off. Ruairi Quinn simply wants a modern education environment.

Chuck Stone

He wants greater means testing on farmers kids for grants is it?

That's not communist. Farming subsidies are more communist than that.

For Paws

super_furry wrote: »

Enda Kenny wants to make love to a helicopter!

A Labour TD has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny and a prominent Fine Gael Deputy of wanting to make love to a helicopter in Ireland.

Source ?

super_furry

For Paws wrote: »

Source ?

http://www.rotor.com/

Bichon Lover

kunst nugget wrote: »

I bet that Labour crowd are all wife-swapping sodomites as well. Grrrr.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/education/fine-gael-td-says-quinn-wants-to-establish-a-communist-state-29108494.html

"The first order of business for newly-elected TD for Cork East Tom Barry is to have the revolving doors of Leinster House removed"
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/cork-td-asks-for-review-of-dail-doors-after-son-became-trapped-498384.html

Jay, bye, we have nothing like dim in Killavullen!

AnonoBoy

For Paws wrote: »

Source ?

No need for a source. Sure everyone knows Enda loves the whirly birds!

For Paws

super_furry wrote: »

http://www.rotor.com/

Can't see a specific mention in this link.

VinLieger

Wow deja vu of Joe Mc Carthy, next thing hes gonna be asking for background checks to make sure we arent against "freedom"

hyperborean

Enda Kenny is a wonderful man, his rumored helicopter fixation has never been proven so get your facts straight

kunst nugget

hyperborean wrote: »

Enda Kenny is a wonderful man, his rumored helicopter fixation has never been proven so get your facts straight

That guy that's saying those rumours obviously hasn't seen the inside of a church.

hyperborean

kunst nugget wrote: »

That guy that's saying those rumours obviously hasn't seen the inside of a church.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yv8xWIzxNUg/TO2DFsvlmaI/AAAAAAAADMY/-YGdncqmIGM/s1600/helicopter_1.jpg

Lucena

seamus wrote: »

"not that any of them would know the inside of a church anyway"

Tom Barry's opinion has instantly become irrelevant since he believes that someone's church attendance or lack thereof has any meaning.

+1

Chinasea

Only way out of this mess. We need a dictator.

Conmaicne Mara

Chuck Stone wrote: »

He wants greater means testing on farmers kids for grants is it?

No.

No one would have a problem with means testing on income, myself included.

However Labour were proposing including assets into the mix which is unfair given the very low profit margin in a lot of farming. Subsidies etc. are there to soften the blow of below cost production, they're not profit in themselves.

So means testing on income, grand, on assets I'm with Mr Barry, they can fcuk off.

Conmaicne Mara

Chinasea wrote: »

Only way out of this mess. We need a dictator.

We had one, he took his yellow suit and all our money and buggered off.

sock puppet

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

No.

No one would have a problem with means testing on income, myself included.

However Labour were proposing including assets into the mix which is unfair given the very low profit margin in a lot of farming. Subsidies etc. are there to soften the blow of below cost production, they're not profit in themselves.

So means testing on income, grand, on assets I'm with Mr Barry, they can fcuk off.

Well then if I were a God fearing anti-communist like Mr. Barry I would suggest that that capital should be redeployed more effectively.

ScumLord

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

We had one, he took his yellow suit and all our money and buggered off.

Bertie wasn't a dictator, if he was we might even have something to show for his term in office. He was a leach that did nothing but look out for his own bank balance.

Conmaicne Mara

sock puppet wrote: »

Well then if I were a God fearing anti-communist like Mr. Barry I would suggest that that capital should be redeployed more effectively.

Do tell, redeployed how?

Chinasea

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

We had one, he took his yellow suit and all our money and buggered off.

Oh no, not "the banks" "the banks""the banks""the banks""the banks" excuse.......


It is surely a component
there is no way to deny
But with a cuddly dictator
We'd be made comply.
The problem is you see,
Unless we're told
we are a nation
incredibly bold

Conmaicne Mara

ScumLord wrote: »

Bertie wasn't a dictator, if he was we might even have something to show for his term in office. He was a leach that did nothing but look out for his own bank balance.

He wasn't much better than a lot of them, start out with a decent little country with a lot of positives, absolutely destroy it, then regret when out of office he didn't build a huge monument to himself (the Bertie bowl).

Conmaicne Mara

Chinasea wrote: »

Oh no, not "the banks" "the banks""the banks""the banks""the banks" excuse.......


It is surely a component
there is no way to deny
But with a cuddly dictator
We'd be made comply.
The problem is you see,
Unless we're told
we are a nation
incredibly bold

What are you on about? Where did I mention banks?

Chinasea

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

What are you on about? Where did I mention banks?

Forget it

robp

seamus wrote: »

"not that any of them would know the inside of a church anyway"

Tom Barry's opinion has instantly become irrelevant since he believes that someone's church attendance or lack thereof has any meaning.

??? Context dude, context! How prejudiced can you get :rolleyes:

Robbo

Conmaicne Mara wrote:

However Labour were proposing including assets into the mix which is unfair given the very low profit margin in a lot of farming. Subsidies etc. are there to soften the blow of below cost production, they're not profit in themselves.

Non-productive assets i.e. Second houses, property speculation and so on. The kind of thing that should be included in a means test for anyone.

Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. he was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county….

theUbiq

Methememb wrote: »

Ruarí Quinn is a bollóx.

You're a bollox.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

seamus wrote: »

"not that any of them would know the inside of a church anyway"

Tom Barry's opinion has instantly become irrelevant since he believes that someone's church attendance or lack thereof has any meaning.

His opinion instantle became irrelevant at the point he even tried to jump from college grants to farmers going to mass in the first place.

suicide_circus

seamus wrote: »

"not that any of them would know the inside of a church anyway"

Tom Barry's opinion has instantly become irrelevant since he believes that someone's church attendance or lack thereof has any meaning.

It probably matters to the people who elected him. Stupid democracy.

SEPT 23 1989

Ho Chi Quinn and the rest of them are going to get buried in the next election

PopePalpatine

Chinasea wrote: »

Only way out of this mess. We need a dictator.

We had one - okay, it was more like a group of dictators - but they answered to some guy in Rome. :pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Ho Chi Quinn and the rest of them are going to get buried in the next election

By who? And would this make things any better? It's a bit like changing the captain on the Titanic after it;s hit the iceberg.

PopePalpatine wrote: »

We had one - okay, it was more like a group of dictators - but they answered to some guy in Rome. :pac:

Well, at least no one can accuse Mr. Quinn of doing that.

Fratton Fred

AnonoBoy wrote: »

No need for a source. Sure everyone knows Enda loves the whirly birds!

You're mistaken, he actually likes playing with his chopper!

Knasher

farmers buy tractors to go to mass in

While we bought the tractor to do other stuff, I'm embarrassed to say this is absolutely something I've done in the past.

Thankfully I've given up that religion stuff now.

sock puppet

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Do tell, redeployed how?

Sell the farm and invest the capital somewhere where the returns are higher obviously. Whether it's right or wrong I don't know, but I imagine it's what someone who hated communism like Mr. Barry would say.

vincit qui se vincit

kunst nugget wrote: »

A FINE Gael TD... Tom Barry....

Once upon a time, when men were men, Tom Barry was one of the greatest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvI-DQ5hEDE

A Blueshirt named Tom Barry has to be a greater pisstake than a child being named Richard Head.

Conmaicne Mara

sock puppet wrote: »

Sell the farm and invest the capital somewhere where the returns are higher obviously. Whether it's right or wrong I don't know, but I imagine it's what someone who hated communism like Mr. Barry would say.

Sell the farm, I don't think so. Even the Labour deppidy on the radio the last day threw a hissy fit when selling a field was suggested. That won't be happening.

You should dig up the Pat Kenny interview with John Bryan (a man I disagree with on most things), in fairness to him he explained it much better than I could.

Robbo wrote: »

Non-productive assets i.e. Second houses, property speculation and so on. The kind of thing that should be included in a means test for anyone.

Sure should, I've no problem with that.

Conmaicne Mara

I think there's a link to the interview I mentioned above on this page: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2013/0301/370244-today-with-pat-kenny-friday-1st-march-2013/?clipid=1011021

Bichon Lover

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

No.

No one would have a problem with means testing on income, myself included.

However Labour were proposing including assets into the mix which is unfair given the very low profit margin in a lot of farming. Subsidies etc. are there to soften the blow of below cost production, they're not profit in themselves.

So means testing on income, grand, on assets I'm with Mr Barry, they can fcuk off.

Anyone applying for a medical card has to provide all this information already yet wealthy farmers can still get a card. Call that fair?

hyperborean

Bichon Lover wrote: »

Anyone applying for a medical card has to provide all this information already yet wealthy farmers can still get a card. Call that fair?

They are giving the medical cards out like smarties, a couple of young ones working here earning (with commision) at least 30k have them.

They just went with the begging bowl crying poverty because they were behind on their mortgage and owed money on a few loans, the department took this into acount and dished out a spanking Medical Card, these same yokes dont skimp on nights out or holidays to the sun..


Now me for example paying for everything I use and not getting behind on bills would be told to feck of....

Effectively what I am saying is the country is ****ed, run and administered by cnuts

Bichon Lover

hyperborean wrote: »

They are giving the medical cards out like smarties, a couple of young ones working here earning (with commision) at least 30k have them.

They just went with the begging bowl crying poverty because they were behind on their mortgage and owed money on a few loans, the department took this into acount and dished out a spanking Medical Card, these same yokes dont skimp on nights out or holidays to the sun..


Now me for example paying for everything I use and not getting behind on bills would be told to feck of....

Effectively what I am saying is the country is ****ed, run and administered by cnuts[/QUOTE

They are giving the medical cards out like smarties

Really? I have one because I have a terminal illness yet they are now hassling me about it. I would not argue with your conclusions about how the country is run however.

Conmaicne Mara

Bichon Lover wrote: »

Anyone applying for a medical card has to provide all this information already yet wealthy farmers can still get a card. Call that fair?

Yes, yes I do.

Annasopra

hyperborean wrote: »

They are giving the medical cards out like smarties,

These urban myths are hilarious