I'm a civil servant....get me out of here!!!- Part 1

In the private sector jungle this year we have 5 civil servants battling it out to keep their guaranteed pension, their job security and their short working week. Before we go racing into tonight's programme let's recap on last night's episode.

Last night we had Mike, a 20 year veteran within the IT ranks of the civil service. Unfortunately for Mike, viewers picked him to undergo a 50 hour week with no overtime and the need to finish projects on time and within budget. Mike nervously took up a challenge which is routine for his counterparts in the private sector. However, due to the combination of no lunch breaks and shear exhaustion on day 2, Mike threw in the towel. But wait! It wasn't all bad news, Mike took solace in the knowledge that he can now go back to wasting tax payers money on overstaffed and technologically obsolete IT projects.

Tonight, FAS executive, Susan has been selected by the public to undergo the next challenge. Will Susan give up her generous pension, her inflated salary and her lavish expenses? Tune in after the break to find out!

Ah Ref!

You couldn't make it up if you tried! In recent days Fianna Fool have been leading the demands for the World Cup playoff with France to be replayed. Now there can be no doubt that the horse-eating, onion-wearing, diving, cheating and dishonest French got away with the sporting crime of the century on Wednesday night. However, for Fianna Fool to come out lecturing about unfairness and respect for the rules of the game is utterly sickening.

What the hell do Fianna Fool take us for? Do the likes of Brian Clown or Doormat Ahern really expect us to believe that they give a damn about our exit from the World Cup. These gobshites have spent 15 years ensuring that the poor pixie Irish will be saddled with the debts of their mates in the property development companies and the banks. They have conspired with the trade unions to donate millions to an under performing and wasteful public service. They have defrauded the tax payer by paying themselves millions more in undeserved salaries and "expenses". What gives them the right to preach about the relatively trivial matter of our exit from the World Cup?

I would love to cheer on the boys in green in South Africa next year. However, it's not a matter of life and death. Our incompetent government, on the other hand, have far more to be worrying about. What about the injustice of bailing out the banks while ordinary men and women are having their homes repossessed without any help from the state? Why not tackle the sickening inequity of a social welfare system where people who want to work and have worked all their lives are treated no differently from the idle wasters who have never and will never contribute to society? Or maybe Fianna Fool would like to invest some time in reforming a criminal justice system which prioritises do-gooder sentiments and looking after the rights of the guilty over protecting the law abiding majority of our citizens.

The petition on the Fianna Fool website mentions "..fair play...dignity and integrity..". It concludes by urging FIFA to

"...prove there is meaning behind these words and show children all over the world that in football those who cheat will not succeed."

How dare Fianna Fool lecture anyone on morality. Who are they to imply that cheating is wrong. And they certainly don't give a damn about our children. They have dedicated their careers to ensuring that our children won't have a future in an economy which has been ruined by years of incompetent and corrupt leadership. Irish politicians have made lucrative careers out of cheating, corruption and dishonesty. The 165 members of the Kildare Street Country Club are such accomplished cheats and liars that they make Sepp Blatter look like the Dalai Lama. For Fianna Fool to jump on the bandwagon and use our unfortunate exit from the World Cup as an excuse to pretend to be on the side of the people is nothing but a cynical and pathetic publicity stunt. It certainly won't prevent them getting a richly deserved red card and five year ban after the next general election!

Bonus Question

And the bonus question for 100 points is.....

Are the Labour Party a shower of half-wits?

After their latest statements on the issue of the non-payment of the social welfare Christmas bonus I can only conclude that they are.

According to Róisín Shortall, Skeletor impressionist and Liebore Party spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs, taxes should have been increased so that the bonus could be paid...

"It is an entirely heartless decision, especially where you had obvious choices and you could have increased taxes."

So Skeletor Shortall wants the government to increase taxes so that a bonus payment can be made to those on social welfare! How bloody fair is that? Anyone who is lucky enough to have a job is already up to their eyes in levies and pay cuts. The vast majority of people who have jobs won't be getting any Christmas bonus this year either. So why the hell should we subsidise this bonus payment for those on social welfare?

I'm sick and tired of hearing the likes of Skeletor Shortall bleating on about the poor and vulnerable in society. Are these the same poor souls who draw the dole but can still afford an iPhone, a Sky TV subscription and forty cigarettes a day? Are these the same unfortunates who fill the pubs on their way back from the post office on dole day? Are these the same deprived wretches that didn't work when jobs were plentiful? Well my heart bleeds that we won't be providing them with an extra Christmas payment for them to piss down the toilet!

Now I do realise that there are a whole different category of people depending on social welfare payments. People who have worked all their life and are in receipt of pensions. People who want to work but can't find a job. I do feel sorry for such individuals and I wish that there was a way that they could get more than the lazy scumbags who abuse the social welfare system. Unfortunately it doesn't seem politically correct to discriminate between these categories. The likes of Skeletor Shortall and her communist cronies have ensured that hard work is rewarded on an par with laziness. In any case, the state simply can't afford this bonus payment. The coffers are empty after the criminal bankers were bailed out with billions of quid of tax payer's money.

But the Liebore Party don't do basic economics. They only do stupidity and sanctimony. And speaking of sanctimony, what does Eamon Gilmore Girl think of the decision not to pay the Christmas bonus?

"I think it is mean and I think it is shameful..."

Well surprise surprise! Gilmore Girl is outraged. God forbid he should engage his brain and realise that we can't afford to pay it. We shouldn't expect any rational economic reasoning to come from a man who leads a party whose front bench is drawn primarily from the communist Democratic Left. The Liebore politburo wants to tax the arse off anyone who has a job so that a wasteful public service and a hoard of social welfare recipients can thrive. Meanwhile, the same politburo continues to draw massive salaries for "representing" us in the Dáil. It's easy to favour tax increases when you're raking in over €100,000 a year plus vast expenses. Now that is shameful Gilmore Girl you hypocrite!

Between Gilmore Girl's soundbites of sanctimonious waffle and Skeletor Shortall's Barney the Dinosaur economics, all Fianna Fool will have to do is keep their mouths shut and the opposition will win the next election for them! It's not like Funny Gael have much better to offer with the likes of that ass clown George IToldYouSo Lee championing the cause of people with million euro mortgages.

Let them eat cake!

I see that the Minister for Stupidity is at it again. Mary "Thicko" Coughlan has been urging Irish shoppers not to go north to buy cheaper food and drink. It's easy for aristocrats like Mary to make such pronouncements from the back of her ministerial Mercedes. Like all the other politicians, she is so out of touch with the rest of the poor pixie Irish that she doesn't realise (or care) that most of us are broke and need to head north to put food on the table. You see we don't have the luxury of being a career politician like her. We don't have jobs which pay us vast salaries and inflated expenses in return for wrecking the country and providing utterly incompetent leadership.

Mary Thicko Coughlan and her colleagues in Fianna Fool created an economy where prices spiralled out of control. This was achieved with cooperation from the money grabbing unions and IBEC. They then conspired to cultivate a banking system which was so devoid of regulation that banks could lend money as they pleased. When the whole house of cards collapsed and ordinary worms like you and me were left with pay cuts, negative equity and general poverty, Fianna Fool blamed the global credit crunch. The line "...Ireland is a small open economy..." was trotted out ad nauseum by government ministers to try and demonstrate that the global economic downturn was the cause of all our woes. What utter rubbish! 15 years of corruption, legislating based on Galway race tent donations, fueling the property bubble and general irresponsibility has wrecked this country. The global downturn was just the final kick in the nuts for us.

One of the problems in a small open economy is that we are open to competition in all areas of economic activity. We have already hemorrhaged jobs as companies relocate to countries where costs are cheaper. Apart from spouting rubbish about the "knowledge economy", the government has done little to address this. Another consequence of our open economy is that we are free to spend what little money we still have as we please. If this means going up north to get our groceries then so be it. Fianna Fool are such believers in the free market that they should realise that the laws of supply and demand should soon see the situation sort itself out. If the Irish retailers and the government don't do something to reduce the cost of living we will continue to shop in the cheapest place. Last year the idiots increased VAT, making Northern Ireland an even better value prospect!

So Thicko Coughlan should shut her face and stop moaning about Irish people shopping in the north. If she wants to remedy the situation she could actually do her job and introduce some measures to make it cheaper to shop down here. But Thicko doesn't do proactivity and initiative. She'd rather sit in her tower and condemn as unpatriotic those who travel north of the border to shop. The stupid wagon probably hasn't done a weekly shop in over 15 years. She wouldn't know what it's like to have to struggle to feed and cloth a family from a diminishing wage.

Dumb Mary's attempt to run a guilt trip on us for shopping in the north demonstrates that she is a thick as she looks. When Queen Marie Antoinette adopted such a "let them eat cake" attitude in 18th century France she lost her head. Luckily for Mary the imbecile queen Coughlan, she only stands to loose her seat.

Where oh where can that brave man be?

Where oh where is our James Connolly,
Where oh where can that brave man be,
He has gone to organise the Union,
That working men might yet be free.

This is the opening verse of a well known rebel song about one of Ireland's most famous trade unionists. As one of the leaders of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, Connolly took on the might of greedy Irish employers between 1911 and 1914. Connolly was a man who practised what he preached. He united Catholic and Protestant workers in Belfast and inspired them to stand together in search of improved pay and conditions. He was jailed during the failed 1913 Dublin lockout. He founded the Irish Citizen Army to protect workers from the brutality of police attacks. After the 1916 rising Connolly was executed for his role in, what he saw as, a war against capitalist oppression of the working classes. Whether you agree with Connolly's politics or not there can be no doubt that this man was honest, brave and sincere. Connolly was undoubtedly one of the forefathers of the Irish labour movement. The protection of workers' rights, fair rates of pay and safe working conditions that we enjoy today were fought for by men like James Connolly.

Now lets fast forward a century or so. Brave workers' leaders like James Connolly have been replaced by money-grabbing charlatans such as SIPTU chief "I'm All Right Jack" O'Connor, IMPACT's Peter "Silver Spoon" McLoone, John "Cuban Cigar" Carr of the INTO and, of course, Labour Party leader and King of sanctimony - Eamon Gilmore Girl. These people and their ilk have made lucrative careers off the backs of Ireland's workers. Like the 165 members of the Kildare Street Country Club, our union leaders benefited most from the boom days of the Celtic Tiger (RIP). The sickeningly high salaries that our union leaders are paid has been well documented in recent days. The huge salaries these supposed leaders of the proletariat are earning would have the brave James Connolly spinning in his grave.

It gives me the sick to listen to the likes of "I'm All Right Jack" O'Connor preaching about workers rights and the plight of the low earner when he is raking in almost €125,000 per year. And you can bet your ass that there's a whack of expenses to add to that. As workers all over this country suffer pay cuts and economic hardship, O'Connor doesn't feel the need to show any solidarity.

But O'Connor isn't the only one with his head in the sand. Thousands of public servants are threatening an all out strike this winter because the state needs to reduce their pay. The fact that they have been awarded repeated pay rises over the past 15 years in return for no improvements in productivity is conveniently forgotten. Anyone who is unfortunate enough to have to deal with public or civil servants will know that helpfulness and a focus on customer service is the last thing they care about. If you are unlucky enough to have to go and sign on the dole you will know what I'm talking about. The typical "...computer says no....cough..." attitude of most front line public servants needs to change. The people of Ireland pay their wages so they should treat us like customers not inconveniences. They deserve a pay cut for their complete lack of work ethic alone. How dare they threaten to strike when we have tolerated their ignorance and waste for decades. Anyone who picks up a picket placard this winter needs to ask themselves if they see a problem with paying their union leader (Silver Spoon McLoone) over €150,000 per annum. I urge any prospective striker to ask your comrades in the union what they are doing with your subscriptions. Ask them why they are paid higher salaries than a TD. You should be picketing your union headquarters rather than holding the country to ransom. How on earth can the ordinary men and women of Ireland be expected to sympathise with striking workers who are represented by men who enjoy such massive salaries.

Ireland's experiment with social partnership has led to a situation whereby we pissed billions of euro down the toilet in return for nothing. The civil and public service is as wasteful and inefficient as ever. Pay for performance doesn't exist. Hard work and a focus on customer service is discouraged. And we can thank the likes of Silver Spoon McLoone and I'm Alright Jack O'Connor for this. Together with their mates in the Dáil they conspired to waste the riches this country enjoyed. And now that they have squandered the money they want to amuse themselves by causing strikes. They have nothing to fear if the country grinds to a halt. They don't have to worry about feeding their families or paying the mortgage. The biggest thing bothering the union leaders these days is that the FAS gravy train has been derailed before they got their chance to sit on the board and scam the taxpayer out of yet more money.

The union leaders of this country don't give a damn about the ordinary worker. The supposed "labour movement" in this country is a complete sell out. It has gone from being represented by heros like James Connolly to Charvet shirt wearing gombeen men like I'm Alright Jack O'Connor and Silver Spoon McLoone.

When the unions can get their own houses in order and dismiss their overpaid and out of touch politburos the ordinary people of Ireland might start viewing their claims with a modicum of sympathy. Until then they can rot on the picket lines because they are a shower of hypocritical wasters.

So where oh where can that brave man be? Well I'm not sure where he is. But I can assure you that he isn't in Liberty Hall or the headquarters of any other union in this country. The modern day union leader is more William Martin Murphy than James Connolly!

Sinne Fianna Fooled

So the voting's over
And the evil yes side won
Ireland's people have been hoodwinked
They've approved the vile Lisbon

Our scumbag politicians
Seeking bribes and well paid roles
Can now take our constitution
And use it to wipe their holes

They spent a lot on posters
Used fear and lies as tools
And Ireland you believed them
You poor weak minded fools

The corrupt power-hungry eurocrats
Will now react with glee
Lisbon Treaty 2009
Reichstag fire 1933

They took our first decision
And flushed it like waste sludge
Have we signed Europe's death warrant?
History will be our judge!


By DarkPassenger

The Lizard's Prayer

More power for us
Your rights we'll subdue
Vote yes to Lisbon
We command you!

Over the economy and NAMA
We childishly fight
But for corrupt Lisbon
We conspire and unite

You see after Lisbon
We'll do as we please
There'll be no more referendums
To inhibit our sleaze

We'll lie and we'll cheat
And we'll make ourselves rich
We'll be commissioners
You'll be Europe's bitch!

To be chanted on the eve of the Lisbon referendum by all the scumbag millionaires who stand to gain most if we sell ourselves out on October 2nd.

Do not be convinced by their scaremongering.

Do not endorse their inept leadership.

And remember.... Anger is a gift - vote no on October 2nd.