Comment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by crocodileshoes
I note that IBEC’s latest list of demands includes that all public servants now in employment should have their pensions calculated on career average earnings rather than final earnings. The nearer I...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by CMK
How close are you to retirement? If you’re more than 20 years, there probably won’t be a pension there for you, despite you’re probably paying 15-20% of your gross income in pension deductions and...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by crocodileshoes
Yes, CMK, I remember commenting here years ago that public service pensions would be the last stand. Rank and file will fight to the last whatever the cravenness of the leadership. I had a friendly pub...
View ArticleComment on Brid Smith to contest European seat… by Enya Rand
One wonders how many people not employed by various state agencies are left in the SWP. However, in the spirit of non-sectarianism a point of order, namely: How’s the current polling looking like? i.e....
View ArticleComment on Brid Smith to contest European seat… by Enya Rand
Yep – I can see queues at the polling booths while the EU citizenry stand with indecisive pencils poised for hours trying to work out where they stand on these knotty theoretical questions. Thanks PB...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 18th December 2013 by CL
Very interesting:” One reason that explains why only about 12% of articles oppose austerity is that a large majority of writers come from elite institutions that favour austerity. Excluding regular...
View ArticleComment on Exiting the bailout and a wish list for the orthodoxy… by CL
Developing the ‘strategy’ was outsourced. ““We have to ask why the Government still thinks it’s necessary to pay two external consultant bodies over €70,000 to write this plan,” said Pearse Doherty “Of...
View ArticleComment on The problem with averages… by ‘Reforming’ pensions? | The Cedar...
[…] SBP has tended to exaggerate the size of pension payouts in the PS, and has itself noted that the majority of PS pensions (and lump sums) […]
View ArticleComment on Public Sector pensions: Some things you won’t hear every day… by...
[…] SBP has tended to exaggerate the size of pension payouts in the PS, and has itself noted that the majority of PS pensions (and lump sums) are relatively small, even the example of the PO is –...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 18th December 2013 by Tawdy
Cllr. John Gilligan is a lot of things but I have never heard of him being a socialist. He would have come from an IRSP background, there were never any socialists in that band of murderers and thieves.
View ArticleComment on Exiting the bailout and a wish list for the orthodoxy… by Johnny...
Yet in the 2011 elections – well after austerity had begun to bite – the Communist-Green alliance made only a minimal gain, going from 15 seats to 16. At the same time, the Left Bloc (a loose alliance...
View ArticleComment on Exiting the bailout and a wish list for the orthodoxy… by Johnny...
The above was in reply to Liberius below.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 18th December 2013 by Ghandi
People should look at the agenda behind last night Primetime programme, a hatchet job on an organisation which gets NO state funding does good work, being critizised by the state funded and customer...
View ArticleComment on The firm by Johnny Forty Coats
It’s beyond satire really, and it’s very hard to envisage a soft landing for North Korea.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 18th December 2013 by...
Gilligans 2009 Election leaflet , whilst not exactly quoting Marx, would have Leftish sentiments http://irishelectionliterature.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/john-gilligan-independent-2009-le-limerick/
View ArticleComment on Could The Socialist Party electorally destroy The SWP ? by...
I concur Jim the real winners here are SF, they are perceived as the left alternative and as serious. Perception is everything. SP/AAA will lose the MEP seat and make minor gains in the locals, SWP/PBP...
View ArticleComment on Could The Socialist Party electorally destroy The SWP ? by Jim...
American references here, but you should see the point. “An old revolutionary walks across the Brooklyn Bridge one day, and he sees man of a similar age standing on the edge, about to jump. He runs...
View ArticleComment on More on Mandela… by Roger Cole
The reality is that those people who continually focus their attacks on Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein do so because they support imperialism, seek to totally destroy Irish Independence, democracy and...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 18th December 2013 by CL
This probably sounds familiar. “Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday used his last major speech as mayor to declare that an “urban renaissance” is well underway — and to warn it could be undermined if his...
View ArticleComment on Could The Socialist Party electorally destroy The SWP ? by CMK
That point about the SP and the CAHWT you raise is laughably inaccurate. If you are close to the CAHWT you’ll know exactly what the SP have done for that campaign – if you don’t, then I suggest you get...
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