Giving Brussels a blow job
Grandad September 13th, 2009
Yesterday I had a glance through the headlines from Ireland.
It was much the same cheerful stuff that’s there every day – murders, bank raids, gloom, doom and more fucking gloom.
In fact, one glance at the Irish headlines any day of the year is more than sufficient excuse to slit the wrists and be done with it.
There was the usual shite about Lisbon, but being the open minded chap that I am, I read what a few of our so called leaders had to say about it.
“Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan claimed that a No vote would shatter international confidence in Ireland’s ability to work through the current economic crisis.”
What?
I am confused.
What the fuck has the treaty to do with confidence?
As far as I can see, international confidence has already been shattered, not only by the way the government plunged us into a crisis in the first place, but by their utter incompetence to get us out of it again.
“Mr Lenihan claimed this would lead to a shortage of funding for our banks, increased costs of borrowing and less money for State services.”
So somewhere buried deep in the treaty, where I certainly can’t find it is a clause saying that should Ireland pass the treaty, that everyone will shout ‘hooray’ and start pouring money into Ireland? I have searched, and I have searched hard, but I can find no mention in the treaty about confidence, or for that matter anything about digging anyone out of a hole.
“The Minister denied he was pursuing the politics of fear”
Mwaahahahahahahaha! Jayzus, Lenihan, but I have to hand it to you. You’ve a great sense of humour.
“He said it was a matter of goodwill and Ireland needs plenty of goodwill.”
Ah. So now we are getting to the point.
But are we?
Again, I have searched right through the treaty, and I can find no mention whatsoever of goodwill. That is aside from the fact that it isn’t goodwill we need. What we really need is a government with more sense than an amoeba and a series of court cases where most of the government, and their builder and banker pals will end up behind bars.
There is a lot of talk about this ‘goodwill’. There is a lot of talk about ‘sending the right message’.
Can someone please explain this to me??
I always thought we were supposed to be voting on a treaty – a series of rules, laws and regulations.
Or have we become so insecure that we have to suck up to the big boys? Do we have to curry favour in the hope that they will be nice to us? Is it really a case of ‘be nice to us and do as we fucking say, or we will be nasty to you’?
Have we sunk so low that we are reduced to giving Brussels a blow job, just in case they hit us if we don’t?
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