Basically there needs to be a civil rights and responsibilities bill and that should describe where and how far the state can go in interfering with people’s lives. I wouldn’t mind but in a democracy the Dail is there and the Senate and the Fourth Estate (bless) to ensure that none of the other arms of the state become oppressive.

Some little fuckhead somewhere is misinterpreting government as the ‘right to rule’ rather than the series of protections it is supposed to mean to the citizen. Something has gone horribly wrong somewhere and I have a feeling it will take violence at some stage to get government back to where it was- servant and not master.

Unfortunately it won’t be me as I am far too wise to spend my time arguing with fucking morons who think a vote is something someone gives you that you can then sell to the highest bidder or the first one to buy you a Dail expensed pint (here, have a pint out of your own taxes’ ‘grand, grand thats lovely. You can count on my vote, John. Ta.’)

The one thing I can promise you is that whatever is happening in the UK now will be presented by one of those cunts in the Dail as a great idea for Ireland at some point over the next three to five years.

Its what passes for individual thinking in the Dail- the UK Sunday Times. 

1) Because we have to be the same as the rest of Europe. *sigh*  The more I hear that line, the more I am turning into a Eurosceptic.

2) Because it’s PC.  Twice as many people kill themselves as die on the roads, but suicide is not PC.

3) [The real reason] To distract us from the fact that the lying incompitent cheating bastards in government have sunk this country into a recession that makes the rest of the world seem awash with money.  You think you have it bad in the UK?  Hah!!

Incidentally, I would have replied earlier, but you distracted me with those links.  Fucking hell!!  Welcome to 1984.