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Why I am writing to Ruairí Quinn.
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Monday June 20, 2011 10:58 by indignant person
Poor people are denied education through sneaky Labour cuts. I want to seperate out what is becoming problematic in terms of Irish Coalition Partnerships for a minute I want to look at Ruairí Quinn who is distinguishing himself on the spin front with his plans for |
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1"Minister of State for Training and Skills Ciaran Cannon has insisted proposed changes and cutbacks in the primary school transport system will be implemented from September.
The measures are aimed at saving €3.5m per year, but they are being bitterly opposed in rural communities across the country.
Many families with primary school students who had a free bus service up to now will be charged a minimum of €50 per child from September, rising to a maximum of €650 per family.
In addition, the Department of Education is cutting around 150 routes where fewer than ten pupils live more than 3km from the school."
Ruairí's impeccable standard of using Fianna Fáil spin to focus on the positive ( divestment/vanity projects)
means that he can slap a Junior PD with the bad news. the fact that the Labour Party (New Labour?) have
taken the Green Christian Right Junior Coalition Particle is becoming increasingly evident :
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0628/education.html
Dear Labour Party,
If you wish to have an iota of relevance in these few years of power, you really should stop
enacting and implementing Fianna Fáil policy and signing on to previously agreed policy
deals that come from the civil service of the previous government. There is still the problem
of Law Library loiterer Cllr Humphreys and the issue of Fine Gael's lack of leadership to contend
with post-elections. Many of us are tired of interchangeable generic suited males living within
cossetted political systems that have no relevance to the realities of our lives.
Sincerely,
a pissed-off voter.
:-)
The Labour Party have very comfortably slotted their arses into the chairs left by Gormley and co.
I had thought that the Fianna Fáil programme would be abandoned but apparently the spin, soundbyte
and other such crap has manifested itself in the Slimy Labs.
Unfortunately I need a word for the coalition, given that England has the 'Condems' and we have nowt
but a bunch of bureaucrats signing off on Civil service and EU decisions, sure even honeymoon OP
Polls and front-page poses are the same- just less well-cut suits!
The greatest benefit that the Irish version of realpolitix has is that the media do not question them closely
on budget/poverty/alienation issues : once you are in the revolving chair, you are 'The Government'. (which is
kinda how FF got away with crap for 14 unchallenged years, like)
I believe that they (we) have a problem with visibility.
The Labour party are caught up in the politics of denial in exchange for unreformed power that caters to
a narrow and dangerous minority. And unlike Spain , the protests in Ireland will be of alienation and violence,
because that is the result of 14 undiluted years of Fianna Fáil impoverishment of Irish society.
The problem here is that actual poor people have * no * political voice because no politician cares to do more
than sustain educational alienation. This is what Quinn is doing and he is using divestment as a blind to 'not'
talk about access to schools and colleges, he is not talking support , he is not talking about how reducing
back to school allowances will effect grocery bills. He is talking about religion and he is doing so in a manner
that convinces me that those who wish retain religion shall be unaffected by debate- he is creating poverty.
That is a cynical manouevre that highlights how politics are done in Ireland . The fact that many people
aspire to power in an unreformed and corrupted political system suggests that there will be little change
anytime soon.
I agree with what you're saying, unfortunately due to the pacified nature of the Irish public, nothing will be done.
Our best chance for real change in Ireland, is for successful revolution to take place in Spain or Greece.