Hired goons to collect house hold charge

[doodlebug]

Oh I don't know...far more people died for Christianity...and I do not feel that obliges me to go to church in the morning.

Democracy has become nothing only a PR war combined with a way of punishing the worst excesses. I can see the historical signs, all across Europe, of impending "social upheaval" (isn't THAT a nice wee euphemism?) seems to me a lot of politicians are not so much treading water in that as flayling around, frantic to find ways to avert that. Of course the best way to do so is a return to deregulation and a turning of the blind eye to let people concentrate on fending for themselves as best they can, hugely complicated by the fact that, sometimes during the boom, Ireland became "little Switzerland" for regulation with no established ethos and traditions of non-compliance.

Standing that down will not be easy, but it has to be done here. Irish people will only stand for regulation in return for a time of plenty, during a time of want it is an invasion liable to send them clean through the roof.

Ironically it could be argued that regulation kept costs down for Irish people. We do not work well as a market economy as the population is too small to attract real market competition. In order to make it look like competition the deregulated markets were skewed and that caused costs to rise. The devotion to the open market system allowed all the excesses that have caused the current problems.

As a country we need to recognise that we are individual and the British or European model might not work in our little piece of earth.

[Skeletor]

they were able to squeeze the life out of our paypackets in the budgets and we had no choice but to pay no control over the situation, this is different we have a choice with this situation God knows its time we stood up for ourselves in this country, sending goons to demand payment at peoples doors is not a wise move they're so thick in proposing such an outrageous move that they dont realise the huge danger involved

[LaBelleThatcher]

Ironically it could be argued that regulation kept costs down for Irish people. We do not work well as a market economy as the population is too small to attract real market competition. In order to make it look like competition the deregulated markets were skewed and that caused costs to rise. The devotion to the open market system allowed all the excesses that have caused the current problems.

I didn't mean that kind of regulation...I mean internal regulation. Suddenly there were rules and regulations attached to every aspect of life, and everything had to e formally registered - OR ELSE.

People stood for that craic during the boom but they will not now...ordinary people need to be left in peace to fiddle a little just to get through, and stay peaceable..

As a country we need to recognise that we are individual and the British or European model might not work in our little piece of earth.

TOTALLY!

(Though I don't think the "British Model" is even working in Britain? )

[LaBelleThatcher]

they were able to squeeze the life out of our paypackets in the budgets and we had no choice but to pay no control over the situation, this is different we have a choice with this situation God knows its time we stood up for ourselves in this country, sending goons to demand payment at peoples doors is not a wise move they're so thick in proposing such an outrageous move that they dont realise the huge danger involved

I totally agree...it's madness...but it is only the extreme end of an insane escalation of the imposition of controls...that doesn't work here.

[Martin41]

I saw a protest about this recently, good to see people uniting over something. It's also great that it keeps their minds off what the escorts are doing too

What are escorts doing?

Go on, talk dirty to me.

[very shy guy]

If they come to your house, order them to leave. They have not right to be on your property.

Right on Bro,"get orf my land" as Farmer Blunt who is a terrible c**t used to say in Viz.Big Phil is also a c**t,ba**ard,bollicks and as dodgy as any finna failer.

[carlos marvado]

Even in adversity there exists opportunity. Now if say 50% of 1.6 million households don't pay and refuse to subsequently pay fines and penalties etc., that means the state is going to have to recruit more people for the prison service......opportunity! Those that go to jail rather than pay up, if they are in certain sectors of the economy, may make themselves less employable by having a prison record......opportunity for others! After 5 years of shagging the public every which way, Fine Gael and Labour are sent to the place currently inhabited by Fianna Fail and the Greens........opportunity for a new group of gombeen politicians to take over at the helm.


Alternatively, a one-way Ryanair ticket to Timbuktu...........now that's what I call a real f**king opportunity!