It is really beyond belief that the Government, while moving the writ for the Donegal SE bye-election, are still attempting through their Supreme Court Appeal, to ensure that the voices of Waterford voters continue to be unheard! How dare they!
They have been given one almighty slap on the wrist today that they weren't expecting and still they want to thwart the very democracy on which our increasingly floundering state is built. It's beginning to look more like a dictatorship every day! Either call all the bye-elections or better yet do the decent thing and the right thing for Ireland and call a General election.
This Government has neither the mandate nor the right to make decisions for the next four years. They were either elected on lies and spin or incompetence and they are in their dying throes. They either saw this coming and decided to ignore it, or they didn't see it coming in which case they are guilty of criminal stupidity!
And to add insult to injury they are using our money to silence us! Is there not some way that Fianna Fáil can be forced to fight their political battles with their own money at least??? I mean they're telling us till we're blue in the face that we are up the proverbial creek without so much as half a paddle and yet they can, in our name, spend probably hundreds of thousands of our money - in trying to silence us!
I, as a tax-payer am saying NO. You may NOT spend my money on this appeal. There is an implicit contract between governments and the governed. We pay our taxes and generally trust that they will be used for the good of the Country. That trust is gone. That contract is broken. This case is certainly not for the good of the people.
Call the bye-elections or call the General Election. Call a halt to spending hard-earned money on your vanity projects. We know you don't care about us but please, call time on this Government - even if it's only to save yourselves! I don't care what the reason is: just go.
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Mary, it's as plain as day that the government believe that they will lose all the bye-elections, and subsequently their Dáil majority, and will finally have to face the electorate.
They know that they'll be wiped out in a general election and many political careers will be ended, permanently.
They are playing for time in the insanely vain hope of being able to regain some of their support before the next election.
The Greens know they will be wiped out too, so they definitely won't bring the government down under any circumstances.
Dan Boyle is twisting and turning on Twitter faster than a whirling dervish.
The only way we'll see a bye-election in Waterford anytime soon is if the Supreme Court order it.
It's nothing personal against Waterford, it's just that the dead-men walking want to postpone their lynchings!
John Collins
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