"Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the others enter into no rivalry with him".
— Aristotle
“Inflation is the most destructive disease known to modern societies. There is nothing which will destroy a society so thoroughly and so fully as letting inflation run riot.”
— Milton Friedman
If the government takes the boot of the Irish workers throat now with tax reliefs , the whole house of cards comes crashing down. They know the cash isn’t there to prop up their numerous other schemes and scams. This government has been completely rogue since 2020.
#fuelprotests
The government would absolutely love to cut fuel prices drastically. It would be the easiest brownie points they would ever get from the electorate. There’s nothing a career politician loves more than soft plaudits for doing nothing.
IPAS centres, children’s hospitals, bike shelters, NGOs that do nothing and answer to no one, free houses for Pakistanis and Nigerians , forgein proxy wars, free lockdown cash, reckless money printing by the ECB, the list goes on and on.
Genuinely amazing contrast to how the Trump administration deploying the national guard to US cities was covered by Irish media compared to how they’re now covering the Irish govt deploying the army to deal with fuel protests. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
We "won't go cap in hand": MATT TREACY speaks to the Knockmealdown sheep farmers who claim that Duke of Devonshire 900% rent increase would force them out though their families have farmed the hills for hundreds of years.