In The National Interest

So Budget 2011 has been passed. No surprise there. The 166 members of the Kildare Street Country Club put on their annual pantomime but there was no way this budget was ever in danger of rejection.

Another predictable result was how our political overlords saw fit to share out the financial pain we poor pixie Irish must endure. As usual, ordinary hard-working men and women will suffer most for the spectacular incompetence of the people at the top of our society. You would think it illogical to penalise people who didn't cause our problems. To cut the incomes of working people. To condemn our schools to rack and ruin. And all so we can keep bankers and TDs living the life of Reilly! Well Irish politicians don't do logic. They do, however, excel when it comes to hypocrisy, insincerity and immorality.

So let's look at this budget which is condemning us to years of economic hardship "In The National Interest":

• No cuts to TD's salaries. Sounds fair - it can't be easy living on a minimum of €92,672 per year.
• The Taoiseach is really taking one for the team though - a cut of €14,000 to bring his salary down to a paltry €214,466. Wow that's a massive 6% pay cut. That fat clown has overseen the destruction of this country and that's all he gets by way of punishment. He should be serving 20 years hard labour for the damage he has done.
• And what punishment will Brian Clown's cabinet of imbeciles suffer? Well they are taking a €10,000 pay cut. Ouch - that 5% cut will bring the minimum ministerial salary down to around €181,000 a year. God love them!
• And spare a thought for the dinosaurs that make up our judiciary. Judges and other overpaid public servants will have their salaries capped at €250,000 - my heart bleeds for them. They will just have to screw even more out of us via their unbelievably extravagant annual expenses.
• Meanwhile, away from the ivory towers of Kildare Street, the minimum wage gets cut from €8.65 to €7.65 per hour. That is 11.5%. So TDs get no cut. The Taoiseach and his court jesters take 6% and 5% cuts respectively yet the poor slob who eeks out a living on the minimum wage is destroyed with an 11.5% cut. SICKENING!
• To add insult to injury - the dole only gets cut by 4%. Compare that with the 11.5% minimum wage cut - a real incentive to get up off your hole and get a job!
• Day to day funding for schools, colleges and other educational providers will be cut by 5% so that we can still pay child benefit to the multi-millionaires who got the country into this mess.
• "Artists" can still earn €40,000 (reduced from €250,000) a year tax-free for wearing their underpants on their head and churning out the odd sculpture. Why should they receive any preferential treatment whatsoever?
• The air travel tax is reduced by 70% (from €10 to €3) but shock horror - Ryanair still aren't happy! You could let Michael "Publicity Hound" O'Leary land planes for free on O'Connell Street and he'd still be whining about something.
• Michael Malevolence Noonan laments the fact that we are lead by "...a puppet government.." which is under the strict control of the IMF and the ECB. Malevolence Noonan also has the audacity to claim that this budget was "soft on the rich and hard on the poor". Another example of the sickening hypocrisy of our wealthy opposition representatives. Has Malevolence forgotten how he and his fellow blueshirted fascists campaigned vigorously in favour of the Lisbon Treaty? Has he forgotten how he served in the Funny Gael/Liebore coalition government which tried to introduce VAT on children's shoes in 1982? Maybe the cold weather has frozen his baldy head to such an extent that he has purged all recollection of Funny Gael/Liebore's bailout of AIB/ICI in 1985.

What Budget 2011 demonstrates is how out of touch our politicians are with the ordinary Irish citizen. The are still vastly overpaid. They still enjoy lavish expenses. They are so concerned with kissing babies, scratching backs and licking arses in the hope of re-election that they neglect their duty to this country. How are we ever going to see a fair budget when the people responsible for most of our problems are the ones in control? Whether they be Fianna Fool, Funny Gael, Liebore or Sinn Pain they are all the same. They are motivated by power and money. Like Malevolence Noonan, they expect us to forget their past actions as they trot out lie after patronising lie. They all claim to have our best interests at heart. They claim to know better than us. They falsely profess patriotism and a will to serve Ireland and its people. These scumbag politicians and their parties seek our votes "In the National Interest"..... we know damn well that their only real motivation is self interest.

ENHANCE YOUR BALLOT PAPER - VOTE "NONE OF THE ABOVE" IN ELECTION 2011.

None of the above

It has been a long time since I last updated this blog. As things went from bad to worse for this country I just couldn't see the point in stating the obvious about our country's corrupt political overlords.

Last night, after watching days of Comical Ali style denials, Brian Clown finally admitted that the IMF and the EU are the new sheriffs in town.

As I sat watching my telly, the screen filled by Michael "Malevolence" Noonan's fat head as he smugly celebrated the arrival of the IMF, my anger levels once again hit blog force 10.

This political parasite was taking delight from the predicament that this country finds itself in. He knows that this crisis is his ticket back to a ministry, a hefty pay hike and a big expense account. Malevolence Noonan symbolises all that is wrong with the political system in this country. This is the man who bullied a dying woman, Brigid McCole, as she fought for compensation from the state for its role in infecting her and many others with Hepatitis C.

Noonan's disgraceful behaviour during this episode demonstrates that he is every bit the scumbag politician that Brian Clown, Stupid Mary Coughlan and Betray Ahern are.

The political system in this country is rotten to the core. Scoundrels like Malevolence Noonan can bully a dying woman in the state's name and then return to the political front line thirteen years later as if nothing had happened. Most of the scumbag millionaires in Kildare Street have similar skeletons in their cupboards. A majority of the Liebore party front bench is drawn from the former Irish Workers Party - a communist party which idolised tyrants like Joseph Stalin and Erich Honecker. And it would be stating the obvious to even bother outlining the dodgy past of most of the Sinn Féin party leadership.

For too many years the political classes have treated the Irish people like fools. When a new government is formed after the inevitable election in January, Michael Malevolence Noonan will certainly be in the new cabinet. However, if the people of Ireland play their cards right he will represent a government with no moral authority. It is my hope that an overwhelming majority of the Irish electorate go to the polls. But I don't want them to vote for our poisonous political establishment. If a massive majority of people choose to "spoil" their votes we will show the scumbag millionaires that we have had enough of their sleeveen politics.

What is the alternative to Brian Clown and his fellow Fianna Fool imbeciles? Is it Malevolence Noonan and the country and western politics of Enda de road Kenny? Is it the communists and kerb crawlers in the Liebore Party? Is it the fantasy island politics of Sinn Féin?

The answer, my poor Pixie Irish, is NONE OF THE ABOVE!

The Party is Over

The scum never cease to offend.
Our money they steal and then spend.
On the June 5th election.
We must show our objection.
Two fingers to parties we'll extend.

Fianna Fáil, Labour and Fine Gael.
They should all be rotting in jail.
They're way overpaid.
And a fortune they've made.
Despite their tendency to fail.

So let's show that we're all sick and tired.
Of the incumbents who just can't be admired.
Lets kick out these hacks.
We'll swing our vote axe.
As Doctor Bill would say, "Parties - you're fired!"


By DarkPassenger

Let's show that we've all had enough of the self-serving party politicians who have failed our country for decades. I urge everyone to vote for an independent candidate on June 5th.

Independents Day

With only a few days remaining until we cast our votes in the council, european and by-elections some decisions need to be made.

It is clear that the mainstream political parties in this country are a complete shower of muppets. They play their political games, unleashing ill-conceived policies on an electorate which they hope is too stupid to bother informing themselves. The only thing these politicians can agree on is that they want to preserve the status quo. They want to continue to screw the taxpayer for as much as they can. They want their huge salaries, ridiculous expenses and generous
pensions to remain intact while they wage a war of financial terror on the rest of us poor pixie Irish.

It is also clear that the choice of candidates in all the forthcoming elections is extremely limited. Whether you vote Funny Gael, Lie-bore Party, Fianna Fool or Green Sleeven Party you effectively end up with the same thing representing you - another party hack who will put the needs of their party and their own political progression before those of their constituents.

With this in mind I would urge people to consider the independent candidates in their areas. I watched Vinny Brownetrousers' show on TV3 last night which featured three independent candidates for the Dublin South by-election. I will make no further mention of Noel Car Park O'Gara's candidature other than to say that the clown deserves no further mention. However the other two candidates certainly have something to offer a disenchanted electorate.

Ross O'Mullane and his unitedminds concept is offering an alternative to our current corrupt political system. His proposed system, like his website, is far from polished, however, the guy deserves some credit for suggesting some imaginative reforms of our current shambolic implementation of democracy.

The last of the three candidates, Frank O'Gorman, came across as an ordinary bloke who has had his fill of corrupt politicians and the destructive effect they have on the lives of ordinary people.

These people may not be seasoned political performers and may have been slightly intimidated by Vinny Brownetrousers' confrontational style of questioning, however they seemed to be speaking from the heart (not from any party political hymnsheet).

Now some of the self-styled political know-alls over on Politics.ie like to criticise the performances of these independent crusaders. Well criticise away you asshats! These candidates don't have access to teams of spin doctors. They may not to be able to afford the ridiculous airbrushed posters. They may not be comfortable engaging in Mary Lou Hasn'tGotAClue McDonald style waffle-fests. But at least they are not selling their souls (and those of their constituents) so they may serve "the party". I am sure there are independent candidates up and down the country of whom the same can be said.

So I appeal to the people of Ireland who are sick and tired of our current colonies of political bacteria to register their discontent in the forthcoming elections. Please use your vote. Use it to elect an indepentent candidate and send a message to the arrogant political parties. Let them see that we have had enough of their corruption and dishonesty.

Again I urge you to use your vote! In a worst case scenario your independent TD, councillor or MEP turns out to be a lying, money-grabbing toe rag. So what? That's what you would have been guaranteed anyway had you elected a party serving hack!

DarkPassenger's idea of the month award goes to these guys for finally coming up with a productive use for politicians. Bravo gentlemen!