Comment on Labour’s way, origins by Political language, disagreeing while...
[...] ‘We are not gong to pay it next year’ (though if one reads the first four or five comments in this thread here one will get a real sense of how even that is ambiguous in terms of what is really...
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by WorldbyStorm
That’s true, unfortunately. By the time it had developed to a point where that was a feasible prospect it had lost most/much of its credibility with those it purported to represent – through acts...
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View ArticleComment on Political language, disagreeing while saying they’re agreeing… by CL
‘we didn’t pay the promissory note this year’-Yes they did.
View ArticleComment on Presents by Michael Carley
Sir wants Ivor the Engine, sir does. Decent working choo-choo.
View ArticleComment on Presents by sonofstan
Given his recent praise for Labour TDs with the guts to vote for the budget, he should call his book ‘Profiles in Courage’
View ArticleComment on Presents by John Cunningham
I got an early present of Kevin O’Connor’s biography of the Jewish Communist Dublin artist, Harry Kernoff (Liffey Press, €19.95). It’s a lovely physical object, with 16 pages of really good colour...
View ArticleComment on Political language, disagreeing while saying they’re agreeing… by...
“words mean what I want them to mean” said humpty dumpty
View ArticleComment on The household tax… by LeftAtTheCross
I don’t believe the Local Authorities are going to pursue anyone for unpaid Household Charges at this stage, because essentially this is not going to be their problem in 6 months time once the Property...
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by yourcousin
well yes after you run people over with tanks it is rather a hard sell to say, “I’m from the government, we’re here to help”. The fact that all this time later there still non-bat shit crazy who are...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 19th December, 2012 by Branno's...
Cool music, they really get their freak on in YD
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by ejh
At each hotel, we’d get the same feta chesse salad starter and the same fairly crap steak and soggy chips. In each hotel bar there’d be the same four piece band playing middle of the road light jazz...
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by EamonnCork
It sounds a bit like travelling in Kerry now.
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by ejh
Blueberry Hill was a big favourite with the bands, as I recall.
View ArticleComment on The household tax… by Irish Left Review | On the Need to Wield the...
[...] The campaign against the household charge, and the concerns about how to extend it to a campaign against the property tax plays right into the hands of those who want to extend the privatisation...
View ArticleComment on The household tax… by Bartley
The vast majority of people will understand without anyone having to explain to them that fighting the property tax IS fighting bailouts and cutbacks. The property tax is projected to yield only half a...
View ArticleComment on The household tax… by ejh
<i>Are Denis O`Brien and U2 fighting bailouts and cutbacks by turning themselves into tax exiles?</i> Try harder eh
View ArticleComment on The household tax… by Julian Assandwich
If it was possible, absolutely. The USC charge for example is massively unpopular. Imagine how unpopular a bank-bailout tax stolen directly from people’s wages by Revenue in conjunction with their...
View ArticleComment on The household tax… by Bartley
… tax stolen directly from people’s wages by Revenue in conjunction with their employer Such a description could be just as easily be attached to the current mode of collecting PAYE and PRSI, which...
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