You've heard it a hundred times and if you're interested in politics in Ireland perhaps a few thousand down the years. And we've gotten used to it. It becomes part of the background noise of Irish political life. However, during the lifetime of the current government it has been turned into an artform.
So to honour it we're going to preserve all the examples we come across. Whenever some problem, difficulty or issue comes up, locally or national and a local councillor, party official or backbencher or hell's bells sometimes even a minister will say the government should do something, or that it must act and then...nothing, faic, nada.
We've had an so called backbenchers revolt over the savage sixteen cuts back in 2003.
So that brings me to this. I'm going to try and gather all such comments so we can shame those people who once having been elected think it is enough to moan but not actually do anything about the problems we all face.
You can get me at daniel.danielsullivan@gmail.com or whycantthegovernmentdosomething@yahoo.ie
Send me clips from papers, or links to the articles, or links to rte audio or video whether news or current affairs and I'll endeavour to post them all.
It's time we did something to remind them that they are the government whether we voted for them or not.
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3 comments:
Good one - although you should make it clear that the politicians you're interested in are those from the Government parties - I assume this is the intention.
Keep up up Palace, keep exposing them.
Then vote SF
There is a major problem with Independence in this country, Fianna Fail doesn't know how to make it work!
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