The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 3) Mod Notes and Threadbanned List in OP

"As an aside,we are headed for massive reform on taxation over next few years with massive increase in it,the tax commission report kicked to touch by ffg will end up being implemented anyway....we can't sustain a country on whims of dozen or so multi-national corporations given days of low corp tax is coming to an end"

Hah.. the famous SF taxation reform. Let's see this very clearly spelt out to voters in the Republic come next election. You can be sure that it will come under ferocious examination by both the media and other candidates. So that the public may know what they're buying into, if they tick any SF candidates box.

If the people in Northern Ireland choose to leave the UK they should form an independent nation and resolve the partisan issues amongst themselves and become financially independent.

When they have achieved this, at some future date they may wish to apply to merge with the Republic of Ireland or to join the EU as an independent nation.

Moving directly from being part of the UK to becoming part of the Republic of Ireland would be a disaster.

"No wonder the country is such a backwards dump,nothing ever changes here,only level of disaster that liberials inflict upon the population as they lack maturity to run country properly"

Jaysus, what is your definition of a Liberal as it relates to irish politics?

Tracker mortgage holders (myself included) have been living high on the hog for over fifteen years now.

Most of us realised that the historically low rates just wouldn't last and planned accordingly.

Doherty is looking more tired and inept every time he opens his mouth these days.

Doesn't bode well for the future when he more than likely becomes minister if he's this jaded on the opposition benches.

"the PSNI still believes the IRA Provisional Army Council oversees both the IRA and Sinn Féin. Harris was asked if the Garda agreed with this view and replied that it did."

Drooling on? I am with the PSNI and the Gardai on this one. You are with the conspiracy theorists.

There was no KPMG report, just a bunch of do-gooders from the public service, not-for-profits and accountants looking to fleece ordinary people of their money.

The only person working in the private sector was the CEO of Cilter Technologies which makes nanny software.

Back to conspiracy theories where you put to one side what the Gardai and PSNI have put on the public record.

"do-gooders", the ultimate in Evil.......

Everyone is an expert in their own right/mind, there were a number of people (including a self-proclaimed tax advisor) on here a few weeks ago who hadn't a clue about effective tax rate and how it could be reduced, but that didn't stop them

You raise a lot of good points on SF trying to please everyone for votes.

But eventually they will have to discard more ‘traditional’ elements from their own party in the quest for where the real consistent power in the ROI. Thinking about it I think it will likely cause another spilt.in SF. As the more ‘traditional’ SF support get disgruntled. And there is likely to be a SF NI v SF ROI internal conflict in the future.

Good article here opinion piece from the IT by Gerard Howlin on EO’B wanting to sack the Chief Economist.

I was thinking where does this attitude from SF stem from?

Is it because SF view ‘this state’ as the enemy ?

But even the Free State years ago had British Civil Servants for decades. The FS had the real power.

In contrast is SF fearing an imagined lack of control in ‘this state’?

Howlin makes a great point that SF /EOB has basically shot themselves in the foot. Straying from it’s carefully manicured strategy.

In my view now instead of a dog (with propensity to violence) that tries to look no threat and cuddly. This is an example of the dog returning to it’s true nature.

I would particularly agree with your last points. as I think the electorate in NI (especially as the younger electorate start voting) there will gradually get fed up of the Tricolour/British flag wavers, currently the crowd on both sides of the divide seem to be solely put there to keep the others out. Giving them a sense of false security.

I think you are playing the notsocutehoor! 😉

But anyway the question is, do you think Eoin O'B was right to be calling for the Chief Economist to be sacked? And the second part of the question is do you think it was a misstep in SF's overall strategy as Howlin suggested, in the article I previously posted?

Well considering Eoin said his comments were 'ill judged' at later date I get the impression someone in SF had a word in his ear.