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why not have another election and hope to lose ... I know there is never a bad time to be in power but I wouldn't t like to responsible for anything over the next few years ... let these socialist chaps in .. the country will struggle more than necessary and the great unwashed will realise just how good they had it .... back when those evil multinationals were creating the employment that allowed for all the freebies the free loaders have obviously come to think as normal ...
The issue is whether tax is a sovereign issue subject to unanimous voting at council or a competition law issue subject to administrative control by the commission .... Ireland wants tax to remain a sovereign issue ... most member states but not Luxembourg want to at least put minimum thresholds in place to stop unfair tax competition .....
there is no reason Ireland should look to the Eu to finance its fishing fleet ... Ireland to my knowledge has traditionally prioritize agriculture over fishing and has traditionally not being a fish eating nation one reason .... although secondary ... why the potato famines had such a negative impact ... and of course in no way a justification for allowing them to occur .... yet another stain on our colonialist past ... apologies ......
Finally if Ireland was to leave the Eu and thus lose the multinational component of its economic miracle ..... I think it would be generally regressive first the country .... I don t know it that well and my memories of visiting it in the seventies was that quaintness aside it was very very poor .... and although you may regret the positives that have been lost in the newer multiCultural society you appear to have produced .... there is nothing romantic or nice about going to the toilet in a ditch in the rain and cold (I refer to an earlier message you wrote) .... !
All true .... sometimes one feels one should take a stand but in reality you are just being sucked into the populist maelstrom ....!
Nearly everything is up for debate Juan and if you don t support competition as an economic policy that is fine .. there are as with everything arguments in favour and against ....
but the application of competition law rules to state aid ... outside the context of national emergencies (which the EU treaties take into account) ... cannot be dismissed as stupid ..... you would have to go a bit deeper than that ...... its a policy necessary to have a functioning single market ...... so if you want to have a single market then it has to be constructed on rules ... and of course every member state tries to attract industry some more desperately than others such as you Irish guys, the Dutch and Luxembourg and now the Germans as a means of protecting their industry in he context of the present economic turmoil ..... however you are only allowed to do so in the context of the EU law competition rules and there are courts that decide whether the rules are being respected ... (having courts and judges is not stupid either but necessary for a functioning democracy ) ....
are you perhaps dismissing the application of rules for the management of a society as stupid ..... seems a tad imperious ... even Trump like but thinking about it I recall in the past you seemed to have a certain admiration for "The Donald"
Perhaps you are one of these chaps, like Trump in fact , who are all in favour of rules as long as they don't apply to you at which time they conveniently become stupid and ridiculous .... not unlike our present PM who incidentally also wants the benefits of being in a single market without respecting the rules on which it is constructed .... and interestingly enough he also finds the EU stupid because they are resisting this approach .....
life unfortunately is complicated and complex and however attractive and satisfying in the moment knee jerk reactions might be .... unfortunately they normally only make the issue or problem they address worse ... at which time the charlatan brands the problem rather than their childlike knee jerk reaction as stupid ...... and the clever who in the short term profit thereby, and the foolish who prefer the chimera of easy solutions over respect of the rules, can always be relied on to follow the populist of the moment .... all that to say ... it is a little simplistic to brand state aid rules as stupid ......
It’s not ridiculous ... it’s called state aid and contravenes competition law .... an Anglo Saxon invention .... if indirectly the Irish government aided Apple then Apple will have to pay the tax money ... if it doesn t amount to state aid they don t have to pay it back ... simple really and not ridiculous at all ....
with some people the EU is always to blame ..... its easier that way
Because that is just what they d expect him to do ....
If it was in the North Sea !
Hard to believe ..... l ll lend it to them nearly
Pvr has been expecting the money for about 10 years now!
Will no one rid me of this bothersome priest .....!
Barry roe is the obvious answer Juan .... cheap... Irish ... why doesn t your government just throw the necessary few million in the pot and start the ball rolling .... all profits to finance green projects ... kills numerous birds with one stone .... seems so obvious but those we elect to power are increasingly useless and spineless
The problem with the Greens .... who like most rational people I support as regards the fundamental principles .... is that the ideology and adherence to same is more important than the reality ..... so partnering with people like this is impossible ..... as how things “should” be is no foundation for doing anything lasting .....
I learnt that in my second marriage !
Agreed the amounts of money are a joke ..... no real underlying belief .... BUT .... personally I have thrown enough at this dog .... even with dilutions if Broe is the real deal without knowing at all but I would expect a very very significant increase ... and thus should recoup part of investment and of it is not I have lost enough .... shady projects attract shady people .... but the new CEO doesn t come across as shady ... ... hard to know ..
Investor 6 you might be more convincing if you (as you have chosen to respond) addressed some of the issues raised ... instead of name calling .... and then saddest of all .... using the present crisis as some kind of support for your “position” ... frankly my dear you are all over the place ... but I know you mean well!
Are you more of a Bear dozer or should I think of you as a Beard ozer ....!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/is-factory-farming-to-blame-for-coronavirus
As everyone probably knows ... best statement re Churchill was by US ... he has a great idea everyday the problem is distinguishing it from the 99 bad ones ....he was behind mustard gas bombing in Iraq, sent WW1 crazies to Ireland in the form of irregulars, killed God knows how many in the Dardanelles .... and probably the only reason the Italians weren’t selling drugs in China like other major European powers is because they were barely a country and probably to their credit are for the most part militarily inept ....
personally I dislike bashing any nationality ... people are people and countries express themselves by reference to where they are on the endless cycle from rags to riches and how their actions are marketed .... thus the nasty Chinese are ruining the world whilst US and UK allied forces manage hundred of thousands of “collateral” deaths as they liberate oppressed people’s .... their is much written on the marketability of nationalism ... how Stalin went from ruthless dictator to uncle joe to dictator again in nearly a decade ... the Germans from ruthless Nazis to good guys in 15 years .... if you believe all of that tosh as B Dylan said so long ago “your only a pawn in their game” ... thankfully mankind is bigger than a flag ...
give it a rest Manyans ... hungry people eat whatever they can .. we are human beings first ... nationality and culture are just the coating ... I will tell you something about irish people during the war ... they charged the British and US families of washed up sailors (primarily) killed by German Uboats to bury them and look after their graves ... extorting large amounts of money ... often when the families arrived on the island after the war they found that in fact there was no body or grave at all ... that does not mean the Irish are ..(choose your word) ... it just means they are people ... some are good and some are bad and when they have no money most of us will do what it takes to survive .......
Agreed it might be a good idea if the Chinese shut down their live markets .... but I recall us European have wiped out millions with our diseases ...... and sold opium to the Chinese and destroyed the heart and soul of their nation ..... Covid is minor payback in comparison ...
Lets keep this BB dedicated to the issue of the Irish oil company and the topic of the Irish CEO who effectively fleeced everyone and lets see if his British counterpart can improve the mess he left!!!!!
Manyans ... you appear to have a Chinese thank going on my man ...
methinks you may be the Irish/Welsh Donald "Dai" Trump!