David Hollingworth » Politics

An Ode To Willie O’Dea

David Hollingworth — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:43:07 +0000

Willie O’Dea, Willie O’Dea,
No longer head,
Of the defense ministry,
Willie O’Dea, oh Willie O’Dea,
Now you’re just a back bench TD

Willie O’Dea, Willie O’Dea
The remarks you made,
Were defamatory,
Willie O’Dea, oh Willie O’Dea,
Now your life’s a calamity.

The End.

Not An Improvement

David Hollingworth — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:15:57 +0000

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, Brian Cowen was heard to say that the employment situation would “disimprove” during the summer.

What’s the matter Brian, does the word “worsen” get stuck in the gullet or are you hoping we’re all too daft to know what a disimprovement is?

Enda Kenny – Empty Promises

David Hollingworth — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:49:29 +0000

I don’t usually blog about politics; but with the country in the economic strife that it’s in I’m guess I’m more keenly aware of what our politicians are up to. If there’s one thing that really gets my gall up is empty rhetoric from politicians and Enda Kenny is the latest to step up to the ‘hot air’ plate.

In his speech to the Fine Gale ardfheis (as reported in the Irish Times) he made a number of far reaching promises:

100,000 new jobs by end 2013
finances back to health by 2012
state financed health care for all doing away with the private / public system we have now

and all this without raising standard or higher tax rates! What’s he going to do, tax the poor instead?

Nowhere amongst all these promises does Enda Kenny make any sort of a hint as to how they’d finance this recovery. If it’s not through taxes then they’ve either got to borrow the capital or make massive cost savings in the public finances; and that spells yet more job cuts.

Come on Enda; how ya going to do it?

Those Bertie Posters

David Hollingworth — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:04:47 +0000

There’s been a fair bit of comment online recently about the Fianna Fail posters of our esteemed Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Personally I was furious about the posters! I mean they are so obviously falsified; do they think the electorate is so thick that they’d fall for such amateur photo editing?

Come on guys this is Ireland in the 21st Century. You simply can’t pull the wool over the voter’s eyes and expect to get away with it anymore. Will you ever cop on to the fact that your electorate is now a sophisticated and savvy group that know when it’s being sold short.

We’ll have to wait a few more weeks to see if the election prospectus is also a patched together bunch of falsehoods.

Finally there is a lighter side to this story over on The Snackbox Diaries.