Flogging Our Wares

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Anon writes:

There’s a trade mission happening in the Gulf region from April 19-23, visiting Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Doha, and Abu Dhabi and our lovely minister Richard Bruton will be leading to flog our wares in the Middle East.

We all know that our state couldn’t realistically bring itself to do any more than pay lip service to human rights when there is money to be made and Team Ireland to be trumpeted, #tblcitwiwtdb…Thinking particular of the imprisoned blogger in Saudi and Enda’s appearance at that Charlie Hebdo march….

FIGHT!

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21 thoughts on “Flogging Our Wares

    1. JimmytheHead

      Supporting the freedom of speech of journalists by attending the funeral of those who were killed in the name of journalistic freedom….. then trading with countries that arrest, publicly flog and imprison journalists. Hes just in it for the cash.

  1. JimmytheHead

    Sothis is a handy list of all the trade we’ve done with countries that have very questionable human rights? Funny that they got all these statistics considering UAE’s record for imprisoning journalists without charge recently, but sher who cares so long as we’re making money off them right!

    Fupp this right-wing-ass gov’mint.

  2. Laughter Tack.

    We trade with America and Britain and China and Israel.

    A few more wont make a difference.

    We are a tiny island, let’s not let moral dilemmas get in the way of making money.

    Ireland: Money before morals.

  3. Jonotti

    Chelshea Manning is in jail. Do we stop trading with the US? The US killed a hundred thousand civilians in the last decade, yet we continue to trade with them. That’s capitalism, it shouldn’t shock you.

  4. Odis

    Yet we are mad keen to be America’s favourite European m80’s. As they pursue their murderous regime change policies in the Middle East and the Ukraine, trying to whip another cold war with Russia.

    Should a shop-keeper have to approve the morals of his customers?

    1. Stewart Curry

      the best small country in the world in which to do business

      Enda’s slogan for Ireland Inc.

  5. sickofallthisbs

    Anon should quit his job if they are that principled rather than go undermining the company they work for, which is trying to boost employment/investment blah blah blah here. So quit or shut up.

  6. Just sayin'

    We’re an open export-orientated economy. If we didn’t trade with countries with dodgy human rights records we would have about an extra hundred thousand on the dole and our overall standard of living would be a lot lower.
    I’m not saying its right but its reality.

  7. Mr. T.

    All graphic design has been replaced by infographics for morons because they can’t be bothered reading more than two lines of text without a nice generic icon designed by some bloke in Beijing for a euro.

    1. More_Bemuda_Than_Berlin

      And this infographic is particularly poor.

      The top left ‘6 key growth sectors’ makes it seem like Ireland makes flower leaves and airplanes.

      How will Enda et al. explain that actually, we, ah, don’t make the leaves, or the airplanes for that matter, per se. But we do do business with leaves, and, ah, we fly on, ammm, airplanes, you know.

      Do the people who commissioned this infographic know what infographics are supposed to do?

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