Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
How in the hell does any of that solve the fact that once our government takes that first IMF tranche the insolvency of the banks is now wholly transferred to the people.

You continue to ignore that fact Ireland will not be able to pay this back and that the debt will have to be sorted properly. Bailing out the country merely transferred the debt it did not remove the problem.

I love the way this whole lark is being presented as a way to FIX Ireland when it's really about saving banks both Irish and European, we keep telling you the truth and we kept getting continually told were being whiney ungrateful spud eating peasants.

Just cos a broke Irish electorate is annoying does not mean they are incorrect about defaulting on the banks.
That bit was about the difference in the way the anglophone press wrote about Greece or Portugal and Ireland. One is a pig, too lazy to work, thieving off EU funds. The other a county in distress.

Remember those Greeks earlier this year? Going on strikes, attacking banks? Like the Irish, they resented being the ones presented with the bill. What was written about them in the Anglophone press? Lazy, socialists, silly swarties who even when they are bankrupt protest austerity measures. The Irish, who speak English, have another face. The face of the austerity measures, this time, is an Irish pensioner, who's hurting.
Likewise, the Greek failure to levy sustainable taxes is a sign they are morally lacking. Whereas the Irish failure to levy sustainable taxes is a sign of their anglo competitiveness.