Patriotic posters. The last refuge of scoundrels.
Joan Burton, Eamon Gilmore and Dominic Hannigan, launching Labour’s pro-treaty campaign outside the party’s HQ in Dublin within the last 30 minutes.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Tag Archives: Fiscal Compact
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3HAw43lEyI
Nordie-voiced, low-on-lols overview of the government-sponsored ‘Stability Treaty’ ad.
Meanwhile: Speeches Advocating Yes vote Removed From Govt Fiscal Treaty Website (RTE)
Thanks Mark Malone
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4e8iAofnrw
There is a famous scene in the 1976 film, The Outlaw Josey Wales, starring Clint Eastwood as the eponymous hero. During a particularly brilliant exchange, the bounty hunter Fletcher, hot on the heels of Wales, comes out with an inspired put-down to the cowardly senator who is trying to pull the wool over his eyes.
Squinting into the sun, saloon door at his back, chewing tobacco, Fletcher disdainfully hisses: “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.
When it comes to the fiscal compact, the EU is pissing down our backs and telling us that it is raining. And the fact that the government is also going with this line implies that it is party to this falsehood.