Finance Minister Michael Noonan
Just being trolled at this stage.
“I don’t know, it is very hard to estimate, I mean some people are protesting because they don’t want to pay at all. But we govern for the centre, we govern for the reasonable people, and reasonable people were upset by the way in which this [protests in Tallaght on Saturday] was handled.”
Finance Minister Michael Noonan today.
Thanks for clarifying that.
Noonan: We govern for the reasonable people (BreakingNews.ie)
Earlier: Meanwhile, In Limerick
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Anything this austerity loving nutcase says should be treated with disdain.
“Sew up your pockets”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0wQ73QdY2g
but he keeps all the trolls employed with every comment he makes – jobs people!!!!
RICH OLD WHITE GIMP ALERT
Yes, down with him and his austerity.
PROFLIGACY FOR ALL!!!!!
ah yes medium sized c….I promise you I shall be very extravagant in my voting pattern come next GE
Independents all the way!!!
Nothing extravagant about voting.
Universal sufferage and all that.
+166
Yes because “we all partied” Medium sized C. Must’ve been some party, i can’t remember it.
Governing for the centre and excluding the middle.
Fair play to Noonan. Calling it as he sees it.
From his ivory tower.
yes Kevin, the bondholders must be repaid.
The bondholders were repaid.
Ages ago.
With a European bank loan that the Irish taxpayer will be paying back for the next couple hundred years…
+ ooh mmm around 150bn
The fraudulent debt won’t be paid until 2024 I believe.
Let him eat centre cake
I voted FG last time round but I’ve been feeling increasingly unreasonable as of late…..
Condescending
Unscrupulous
Nauseating
Twat.
…Oh, I’ll define where we are and where the public opinion has shifted to, and anyone beyond that is unreasonable, and the meejah won’t do more than lob softballs at me…
I disagree with what happened but he sure as fupp aint governing for me.
“we govern for the centre, we govern for the reasonable people” – in your face, Cleisthenes
Are you really dragging Cleisthenes into the IW debacle? At least Noonan governs for and allows women, slaves and people not born of the soil to have a vote? Where do you stand on the need to supply armour and spears for the phalanx to qualify as a citizen?
Noonan’s been in politics a while, but I think he got into government after women got the vote.
We’re not hanging on his grace and favour to cast ballots, thankfully.
declan, I stand in queue for these, join in, I have a flask of coffee handy
As in ancient greek inspired comments, lost me???? Mines a tea though – sorry to be awkward
“Noonan, aeide thea…”
+ 1000 drachma
+ 4 litres of Retsina.
I’m glad I’m not studying because of this : )
What about the Feta ,, heh, heh, heh,,,
I never knew ’till now that άειδε θεά = ya big effin’ bollicks
maybe I better stop using the Government Easter Rising Commemoration Google Translate
That is one elegant font, as the Corinthian said to Pegasus.
All to do with ………Light and shade and perfect proportion.
Best viewed at Midnight under full moon ….or so I’m told
http://data2.whicdn.com/images/88867776/large.jpg
He’s dead right. Reasonable people (for or against water charges) don’t behave like some of the cream crackers getting involved in these protests.
That’s a great first comment.
Is “cream crackers” rhyming slang for “knackers”?
Yep…
Typical handlebar moustachist comment…
A lot of reasonable people were unhappy with how this govt and the last sold us out to bail out unsecured speculators, but sitting at home being reasonable didn’t do much for us.
Getting out in large numbers panicked them about the water charges.
If they ignore reasonable people, they will encourage unreasonable crowds. They reap what they sow, I have feck all pity for them, especially that low-life… he has no ground to stand on when it comes to morals.
I may not have voted him in but he still has a responsibility to govern the nation’s finances for those ‘off-centre’, and ‘unreasonable’ – his terms, not mine. Cheeky sod.
Ah now: the opposite of centre in this context isn’t off centre. It’s left or right.
Not that that makes him any less of a knobjockey for saying that, though.
Three thats in one sentence. Awesome.
I know that!
It was easier than typing out left of centre, right of centre.
Well, you say that now.
**suspicious**
?
Ah, I just meant you were pretending to know.
The moment has been lost.
Well, its not really left or right.
He’s making an appeal to a (possibly fictional) reasonable mass of Irish citizens, akin to Nixon’s ‘silent majority’.
So really the opposite to centre in this context is off-centre or unreasonable or whatever.
Overpayed fat cat tells people he is disgusted for you about saturdays protest.
What do you think his role should pay?
Dunno if I disagree with you or not but it seems to go without question than politicians are overpaid.
more ‘turn them on each other’ tactics from government.
noonan the bond holder. …you govern for yourself…. but not for much longer.
You govern for your cronies Baldy.
Was the whole thing staged I wonder? I mean were the people in Jobstown used?
Saw some of the clips of Joany walking around up there, smirk on her face and people firing water balloons screaming at her, her calm as a breeze.
Most sensible people would leave where they were not wanted, unless you’re looking for trouble.
Most elderly women would be scared shitless too, but she’s not your typical vulnerable elderly woman.. Neck like a jockey’s bollocks, that one.
You seem disappointed the protests didn’t succeed in terrorising her. That says quite a lot about you Anne, but then judging from some of your previous comments I shouldn’t be surprised.
Its a pity you can accept that Ireland is a parliamentary representative democracy with elections every five years or so. As our politicians haven’t acted illegally in their governing its really just political differences that is fuelling people’s anger. They’ll get their chance by March 2016. Until then, while people can protest peacefully, this Government has a democratic mandate to govern.
My point is Freddy Kruger couldn’t terrorise the woman.
Also, I think she went up there, to incite a reaction.
Just read the words in front of you, thanking you.
Anne, Joan was invited to the graduation ceremony by An Cosan.
Well I had figured she wasn’t just passing through.
Who invited her from An Cosan?
What ties, if any, do they have with her?
Bad decision in any event.
They’re trying to use the reaction they got and expected to their advantage.
Clutching at straws. Pathetic stuff.
I’m going to need big foam gloves watching the news this evening or I might punch the screen out of the TV.
Noonie looks, sounds, acts, and soundbites like a caricature ‘fat cat’ and cackling through it all too.
Another despicable man isn’t he?
It’s divide and conquer tricks – You don’t want to be associated with those Jobstown types, who just don’t want to pay at all, at all.
Except any reasonable person sees them for what they are.
The biggest entitled shower of scroungers going.
ha. Comment out of moderation I see. I did not call that cretin a man.
Looks much more polite though.
Fellas – Blue murder, around here.
Anne a friend of mine once wrote a song in which she referred to the subject of the ditty as “an appendage attached to a dick”. That’s what you were trying to say, isn’t it? :) I bet Karl is the censor ;)
Yep, that was it exactly. :)
Calculator Karl with the snug fitting 70s suits? You’re probably right.
True Anne… his generalisations are grating
life imitating art, wha?
The moral majority.
I think when you see public announcements like this from our Ministers in government you can see why the protests have turned a little bit aggressive. It’s still childs play compared to the Greeks or Belgians though. Pure unadulterated arrogance from the cabinet mouthpieces, it’s like Shatter gave lessons in public speaking before he slithered off. Keep it peaceful everyone, we have these f**kers on the ropes. General election early in the new year!
What a load of bollox, these people govern for themselves and the rest of their golden circle buddies. They always have, and they always will if people are foolish enough to vote for them again.
+ my vote
+ Quite
They are succeeding at exactly what they’ve set out to do. They have smeared a burgeoning, common sense campaign to end the pain and financial enslavement that’s been meted out to us through the frankly ludicrous concept of us paying back money to already inordinately wealthy finanicers who lost their bets … The smoke and mirrors are working lads, and we seem to be playing right into their hands. The divisional tactics are already starting to conquer. Tricky juncture. And they control the media too, yikes!
the smoke and mirrors are not working
just you make sure that you make the effort to get out marching on the 10th & use your vote come the approaching GE and make your voice count
don’t worry
just do yourself a large favour & stop listening to radio ballsbridge
“campaign to end the pain and financial enslavement that’s been meted out to us through the frankly ludicrous concept of us paying back money to already inordinately wealthy finanicers who lost their bets” – lovely summary of “bailout” – like that.
I love how they actually spun it – and I don’t know how they managed it – to make it like someone paid off our debts, instead of them forcing us to take money to give straight back to them to pay off their OWN debts! (couldn’t transfer money to themselves to do it).
It was literally a transfer of THEIR MASSIVE DEBT now is OUR MASSIVE DEBT. Houdini couldn’t have done it better!
The bailout is sickening but our real problem is the shortfall between what we collect in taxes and what we spend.
It is also worth bearing in mind, the last time we unilaterally decided that we would no longer pay what felt like a rather unfair debt – the land annuities. Was the Economic War worth it? Overall did it do us good or set us back?
Is the bailout payments included in “what we spend”? If it wasn’t there would what we spend then be less than the tax taken in? Just thinking all the austerity is because all the normal tax money has been redirected to the bailout payments.
The bailout is painful but you are not correct to think that austerity is purely about paying this money back.
Apparently, we are spending 1.6bn on the bailout annually (about 2.3% of total govt expenditure). This year the deficit is about 7bn and this has been steadily improving- in 2010 this deficit was around 14bn.
ironic from someone who has successfully driven so many people from the centre to the wings!
I prefer Mario Rosenstock’s Michael Noonan to real life Michael Noonan. However, hearing real life MN reminds me of Mario’s MN and that cheers me up.
About time someone spoke up for the centre. Why should income tax payers foot every bill.
Not for long Numnum, not for long, (and your party will never govern again in your lifetime after that, so well done).
Do you reckon? I’m not quote so sure
This Government is out of control
That dithering dothering oul fella only mocks others in every question he has ever answered has some nerve all the same.
Its not all that long age Phil the Hog said they’d kick in doors (septic tank charges) … And Noonan, who failed as a leader btw, has the nerve to tell us they govern for the centre.
The shit they are expecting us to swallow has ensured there are no reasonable people left.
If Edna and Joan are that sure of themselves they’d call the election a year early and stop the Shinners and Indos scorching them off the polls.
I’m totally freaked out by your username snafu earlier.
I don’t know what to think of you anymore……
Ya wha’
You can spend a happy half hour figuring out which one is Garrison and which one is Mr Hat.
But then you start wondering about Anne and Jim Computer and that epson paulson guy. They all have the musty bang of Frilly at various times.
Well. You can always get BSHQ to confirm.
Wha’? Me or ‘Nicer Annes’?
Ah come on, there’s stark raving lunatics and there’s a little bit wired, granted.
I can’t get no musty bang around here.
Short lines, similar politics, “wha” and the occasional dip into bald incoherence. You have to acknowledge a similarity.
What with me being at least three other people, and the Mani-Clampers-martco singularity, I think we have to face the possibility that there are only five or six of us here.
I love the idea of BS comment sections having an actual population of five people in various guises.
On the other hand, there have been four or five of me on the go at various stages…
No way I’m as incoherent as that misogynistic poofter.
Why do so many of them having mammy issues?
I’d hope I’m not much of an egomaniac either –
If you were smart, you’d know I only pick the best usernames, like, eva type of egomaniac.
You’re right, Anne. I apologise. Even when I disagree with you I can generally understand what you’re saying.
While you’ve just made Jobstown Jim’s day. If you were half as smart as you think you are you’d know there not usernames I’d by seen squabbling under.
Plenty lads around the dot. IEs know the names I used on different forums over the last 15 years or so. Any of them as bland as Anne?
Why are you writing in proper sentences now? That is way more unsettling ;)
Oh yeah
I’m Mick Flavin
Why – who else is Frilly?
Banotti, in a more formal voice. One or two others, I suspect, in various degrees of verboclastic paroxysm.
Ah poor poor Al’fraud
You haven’t done your homework on Banotti
Your colleague has been working this site for a while.
Check out all the Banotti posts.
Then come back with a new handle.
Cause you’ve been busted
I’d keep this up if it wasn’t so insulting to Banotti.
What was wrong with sceptic tank inspections or associated charges?
Anyway, there is little sense freaking out at FG/Lab that they haven’t arrested the decline suffered by all state bodies under decades of FF rule.
I am also skeptical
You must be feeling all flush with that gag
Smash the cistern!
Whattye think of this one
Can anyone say 1,2,3 no confidence….
It’s heading that way, and it wouldnt do any harm to have an open and public debate, and for a new government to get a new mandate.
Before someone gets killed like…
A new government made up of who, exactly? Something tells me you haven’t thought that one out.
Garth brooks?
With only a 24% approval rating in the polls, that would mean that only a quarter of Irish people are reasonable. Just sayin.
Thankfully we still have someone competent of the state finances, albeit he is still spending more than we can afford as a country, and we are still borrowing more and more every day.
He’s been doing a great job in Finance, alright.
Mad Eye Noony at it again, seriously he actually looks a bit intimidating in that photo I better go home and fill in the feckin’ form.
“He who protests is an enemy” – Pol Pot
immeasurably diluded person