Comments on: Deal or No Deal on Promissory Notes looks like No Deal

By: Colm

Colm — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:12:48 +0000

An act of war is exactly what it was and is. And our response is to send in a few washed up teachers! No offense to teachers.

We need a war time response and war time governance. This joke has gone on for long enough.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:24:53 +0000

“We cannot afford to keep the criminal class in clover anymore. Eventually the message will get through.” Considering the amount that we have repaid bondholders and other financial institutions, we seem to be keeping them well stocked in clover right now…

By: Kieran Sullivan (@techspeakieran)

Kieran Sullivan (@techspeakieran) — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:51:27 +0000

‘Getting a deal’ was set by FG-Labour as a criterion by which to judge them.

Failure to do so not only reveals them to be poor negotiators, but also exposes them as sub-standard project managers who can’t set achievable (i.e. realistic) deliverables.

On a related note, does the sight of Government figures traipsing around Europe looking for sympathy remind anyone of FAI chief John Delaney asking to be the 33rd team at the World Cup a few years ago?

By: Sporthog

Sporthog — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:02:47 +0000

@ NWL,

Indeed, within Europe there is a reluctance to capital punishment, however this will change over the next 50 years.

We cannot afford to keep the criminal class in clover anymore. Eventually the message will get through.

@ OMF,

You crack me up with laughter at times…

By: OMF

OMF — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:11:25 +0000

If we executed sixty bankers, I think it would drive financial crime down substantially.

By: namawinelake

namawinelake — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:34:59 +0000

@Sporthog, yep, if we executed about 60 people per year – which we would if we adopted Singapore’s capital punishment regime – that might drive crime down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore

We would no longer be EU members however.

By: Sporthog

Sporthog — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:32:08 +0000

“The ECB has said that no deal has been rejected”

Perhaps there was never any deal to reject?

However Ireland could improve costs / expenditure for running the country, take Singapore for example, crime rate is very low, they don’t tolerate bad behavior or drug trafficking.

In Ireland due to a toleration of crime we have to spend large amounts of taxpayers money every year employing Gardai to investigate criminal activity.

Perhaps if Ireland got it’s problems under control… the books would balance quicker and less tax rises / service cuts would have to be made.

But no……….. lets tolerate the Criminal Class, after all, we have DEEP POCKETS.

By: Houdini

Houdini — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:54:14 +0000

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ecb-rejects-irish-bid-promissory-note-sources-152427166–sector.html

By: Joseph Ryan

Joseph Ryan — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:10:55 +0000

@NWL
Clarification on above, in case of misunderstanding.

“It was an act of war, with the ECB as the advance Panzergruppe. Our own politicians and elite acted as quislings in the whole episode, and were well paid for it.”
That paragraph is my opinion, and not a paraphrase of anything that Diarmuid Flynn said tonight.

By: Joseph Ryan

Joseph Ryan — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:57:02 +0000

@NWL

Peter Mathews proposed not paying the next instalment of the PN/ELA at tonight’s meeting. He advocated inviting the ECB to discussions, post the due date and post not having made the payment.
The Michael Taft ‘Unite’ Chart 1, European Bank Debt per Capita’ is worth putting online. A real eye opener.
As Diarmuid O’Flynn said, when the Troika leave, they will have grins all over their faces. They came for the money; the private bank bonds on behalf of the private creditors. They got what they wanted and stuck generations of Irish with bank debt.
It was an act of war, with the ECB as the advance Panzergruppe. Our own politicians and elite acted as quislings in the whole episode, and were well paid for it.