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Public warned that Santy won't come if they don't register for Irish Water. - Dartz - 11-05-2014
http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/1 ... ish-water/
The Boondoggle gets boondogglier...
Quote:FOLLOWING last weekend’s show of public strength and solidarity in the form of countrywide protests over the introduction of water charges, the government has warned that failure to register with Irish Water may result in Santa Claus not coming this year.________________________________
The protests, which were attended by an estimated 150,000 people, came as a shock to the Fine Gael/Labour coalition, who expected a much lower turnout against the onerous charges.
Enda Kenny fired back with a cautionary statement warning the public that failure to comply with the water charges would result in a 4% hike in the Universal Social Charge, and followed up that by stating that the €5 euro hike in child support introduced in Budget 2015 may be in jeopardy if water rates are not introduced.
With the nation failing to bend at either threat, the Taoiseach opened Dáil proceedings by telling the men and women of Ireland that unless they behave themselves and pay their bills, they may not get anything from Santy this year.
“It’s getting very close to Christmas, and Santy is watching everyone very closely to make sure they’re being good, ” said Mr. Kenny, whose grasp on power was revealed to be slipping in a recent opinion poll.
“Right now there’s 150,000 people who marched on Saturday that are on the naughty list, and nearly a million households who have yet to return their completed application packs to Irish Water, so I think there might be a lot of coal in people’s stocking on Christmas morning”.
With further protests planned for December, Kenny then lead his fellow TDs in a rendition of ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’, with dance moves which included wagging a finger disapprovingly during the line ‘be good, for goodness sake’.
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- Rajvik - 11-05-2014
Someone is not just losing his grip on power, but his grip on sanity as well. I mean really, saying that people who disagree and protest about it are going on Santa's naughty list? You're talking about people old enough to know he doesn't exist.
- Morganite - 11-05-2014
I am, to understate the case, not familiar with Irish politics and the parties involved. But... this person seriously used the idea of "Santa" that way?
It's one thing as a metaphor, but this is just ridiculous.
-Morgan.
- Dartz - 11-06-2014
Waterford Whispers are an Irish Onion, but they also hit the nail on the head. The government are trying everything and anyting to chastise people into accepting someting they just don't want...
I had to doublececk and make sure when This came out earlier today.
Register for Irish Water, get E100.
Do they think we're children? Because that's what these gobdaws are actking like.
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- robkelk - 11-07-2014
What happens if you don't register? Do they cut off your plumbing?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Dartz - 11-07-2014
Nobody really quite knows, and that's the fun part. I think you get hit by an exorbitant flat rate bill based on the size of the house and the phase of the moon.
But they can't cut you off either and, for the time being at least, can't ding your credit for it. All they can do is reduce pressure which involves sending someone out to physically do something that's well within the capability of homeowners to undo.
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- Rod.H - 11-07-2014
But what if they...no that's still defeatable by a homeowner. I suppose they could reduce pressure to an entire region, but then they'll effect those that've payed.
Still it seems as though they're loosing the plot. They're not at Rob Ford's level yet, but they're getting there.
- Dartz - 11-09-2014
Plot? There ain't no plot! There was never a plot. Things were just sort of thrown at it in the hopes that some of it with sort of stuck.
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- robkelk - 11-09-2014
Irish Water is bad fanfic?
(Nadia: The Secret of Irish Water...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Dartz - 11-09-2014
The difference being that, by this stage, most bad fanfic writers would've either given up, or thought about what was wrong and improved upon things. But this just gets worse and worse and worse.... like My Immortal but without the trollish charm. It's like a Self Insert that rolls on and on for seven years...
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- khagler - 11-09-2014
Does Irish Water actually do anything, or is this like that tax the British people have to pay for owning a television set?
- Dartz - 11-09-2014
Supposedly, it's intended to maintain and manage the water system, and actually run the treatment plants IIRC. The thing is, the system's been given the absolute bare minimum of maintenance or investment for decades. There're still lead pipes down there in places. They charged for it, and charged for service connections when new houses are built - but never put any of that money towards maintaining the services. It was dumped into the banks instead.
And then the whole network was basically destroyed by a hard winter about 4 years ago. Pipes froze and burst. So 50% of treated water goes straight into the dirt through leaks. 25% of what's left is hazardous to human health, and the final 25% taste like steel and arse.
It's beyond shagged.
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- Jorlem - 11-09-2014
Arguably better than the water situation in Detroit, though.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
- Dartz - 11-21-2014
The spasticracy rumbles on....
Register and well give you E100
Don't register and we'll fine you E1600
A minister got trapped in her car for a few hours and waterballoned, and some crowd from the US NPR are calling the government incompetent because three ministers they were supposed to interview decided at the last minute to fuck off. Probably got trapped in their cars by protestors.
Shinnerscum are bullying the fuck out of Socialists on social media in true bolshevik fasion because nobody but Sinn Fein is allowed to stand against the government and they want the whole world to know it, the fucking fascists.
And then there's this bogger, comparing water protestors to the Daesh
Quote:A FINE GAEL TD has warned that Ireland faces “an ISIS situation” if the more extreme elements of water charge protests are not “nipped in the bud”.
He also claimed that protesters in Dublin are “like parasites” and said they “live off country people as they have never acknowledged the role of country people”.
Noel Coonan, a TD for Tipperary North, was speaking during the course of today’s lengthy Dáil debate on the changes to the water charges regime that were announced yesterday.
He was referring to the militant jihadist group known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria which occupies parts of Iraq and Syria where it has declared its own caliphate – Islamic State.
ISIS is notorious for its violent campaigns and has been condemned globally for its recent beheadings of captured journalists and aid workers which have been posted online.
Raqqa, Syria
ISIS fighters in Syria
Source: AP/Press Association Images
Coonan said that the scenes witnessed in Jobstown at the weekend, where the Tánaiste was verbally abused and had a water balloon thrown at her , were “disgraceful” and said that people he’d met ”are horrified at what’s going on”.
“I think it has been an awakening call for them because they are now concerned about elements of Socialists – the so-called wealthy Socialist Party – led by the Murph [Socialist TD Paul Murphy] and company, and aided and abetted by extremists within our colleagues here in Sinn Féin,” he told the Dáil.
“I think that that needs to be nipped in the bud. The people have given that signal to us now: nip that in the bud. If not we’re facing what is potentially an ISIS situation in Middle East if those people are allowed get on to do what they’re doing. God help this country and people realise that. So we have to nip that in the bud.”
He later added: “The people protesting in Dublin are led by socialists and do not care about country people. Through the years country people have paid for water through group schemes, private wells and so on.
“The protesters in Dublin act like parasites and live off country people as they have never acknowledged the role of country people.
Socialist TD Paul Murphy has been responding to criticism of the Jobstown protest in the Dáil this evening:
These clowns lost their heads a long time ago, without help from the daesh.
Government in Ireland is generally a stolid and dull affair, but when it blows up, it blows up big. The pot of public anger has boiled over.
Meanwhile, Joe Higgins speaks on the matter:
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