Thank you Sinn Fein!
After our calls yesterday, Government finally has accepted the need to act on fuel prices. They must intervene on home heating oil too. No half measures. We have a cost of living crisis. We can't afford a dithering government. We are continuing our pressure on these matters today pic.twitter.com/uJRIze1eTd
— Mary Lou McDonald (@MaryLouMcDonald) March 9, 2022
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Wasn’t Leo talking about bringing that in last week?
I also said they should do this yesterday. Where’s my thanks?
Trump is blushing.
Mary Lou: My job here is done.
Irish People: What do you mean? You didn’t do anything.
Mary Lou: Didn’t I?
Government had plans in place since last week for this didn’t they?
Mary Lou and SF are really starting to piss me off with these disingenuous tactics.
It’s like the curtain around the table has been pulled but they’re still trying to go ahead with the magic show. Everyone can already see the rabbit sitting in the hat, but SF are still trying to claim it’ll be magic when it gets pulled out.
I feel they are losing a lot of good will that they had generated in the last election by pulling shit like this. It is just solidifying that they aren’t any different.
They think the electorate are chumps, will swallow anything, are too stupid to see things right in front of them & SF will say & do absolutely anything just to try win a few points on the populist game. Including trying to take credit for something that was already underway before they asked about it.
I’m running out of time for MLM and her soundbite politics.
No point in bringing in this reduction. Vat is 23 per cent but evidence shows that as people spend more on petrol or diesel so they spend less on other things. It is not the way people think it is. It’s a crude comparison but people may spend less on clothes to spend more on fuel so there is actually no gain in terms of tax.
If there is a reduction in VAT on fuel, the money will have to be recovered elsewhere.
Firstly a change in government.
The public is sick of the same old excuses,
Brexit
Covid.
Inflation
Insurance companies given extended time to screw Joe public before allowing other companies to enter the market.
Vulture fund’s been given the thumb’s up to continue to buy housing estates up for profit
Soft tax for corporate.
Willing to go to court refusing to take 13 billion tax from their corporate bosses.
Wasting 6 billion on a hospital when they can’t find the staff for an already crippled health system.
Putting the man responsible for the cervical check scandal in charge of the nphet during a pandemic.
Leo’s leaking.
And this in the first two years of government.
So I’ll ask you
What would you do bearing in mind that this is the recent government.
I can go back 50 years