Comment on And a poll, at last… by doctorfive
Pragmatic might be a better description and ties in with the FF2.0 concerns/scepticism.
View ArticleComment on Labour’s blues.. redux… by Sterling
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View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by crocodileshoes
The question, Bartley, is who’s Seoirse? (You’ll need to remember sixties RTE children’s programmes, to understand the question).
View ArticleComment on More on the most recent poll… by PaddyM
The more detailed figures are <a href="http://www.banda.ie/assets/files/Sunday%20Times%20September%202012%20%20Poll.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by bartholomew
“Summer holiday durations [were] designed a century ago when children were needed as seasonal farm labourers.” I’ve often read this and it puzzles me. If it was true, wouldn’t the holidays be in August...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by John Cunningham
I see Eoghan Harris’s piece yesterday was entitled “Jim Larkin would have lashed the Labour Party.” And he probably would have, though not for the reasons that Eoghan suggests...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by WorldbyStorm
All good points. I guess in EH’s world you integrate the data that you want to and ignore that which you don’t.
View ArticleComment on More on the most recent poll… by RosencrantzisDead
By the by, I have been polled by Red C about twice in the past month or so. I cannot recall when the last Red C poll was but my suspicions are that one of the parties are very concerned about voter...
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by Mark P
There are no procedural shortcuts involved, the ULA is not treating the CAHWT as its own “plaything”, and nobody, the ULA or anybody else involved in the CAHWT needs to run an announcement that they...
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by LeftAtTheCross
Well here’s the question, did the CAHWT ask for the support of the ULA or SP “in organising public meetings across the country focused on mobilising resistance and protests against the property charge...
View ArticleComment on Dashed hopes of growth? What hopes? by Jonathan
“Logically, though, I can prove that regulation is always a deterrent to competition.” One could also logically prove that unregulated competition inevitably leads to oligarchy, if not outright...
View ArticleComment on Dashed hopes of growth? What hopes? by Jonathan
Or how about this letter, from the Irish Times recently: “Sir, – I am somewhat dumbfounded that there has been little or no public outcry regarding the recently announced takeover of Argosy Libraries...
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by neilcaff
“did the CAHWT ask for the support of the ULA or SP…etc?” Huh?!? Since when have political groups needed permission from a campaign to do activity in support of the campaign? I presume when the Workers...
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by revolutionaryprogramme
Mark P, I have no problem with the ULA collectively coming to a decision but that didn’t happen here. There was no discussion in the wider ULA and it didn’t even get discussed at the national steering...
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by revolutionaryprogramme
neilcaff, of course political groups don’t have to ask the permission of the CAHWT, or any other campaign, before announcing they want to support that campaign. But there have been plenty of those...
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by neilcaff
“This is the political method of the labour bureaucracy not the revolutionary socialism you claim to stand in the tradition of.” I think you’ll find the more recent methods of the labour bureaucracy is...
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by neilcaff
Hmm, in my last post I only wanted to italicise the word “bogus”.
View ArticleComment on The ULA and the CAHWT by revolutionaryprogramme
neilcaff, maybe you are right but then we are left with the conundrum of exactly what “things really are just what they seem” means. Is the ULA really about to launch a “public campaign of resistance...
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