The only thing more comical than a SF budget is a PBP budget
Great. We can burn the worthless paper money to keep warm when the nationalised energy companies shut down
Fuckit, as long as we’re throwing reality out the window let’s nationalise the canaries and NI while we’re at it
Certain key infrastructure and provision should never have been sold. Electricity, water, basic foods, public transport etc. These are essentials for people. The government should always have a significant shareholding in each of these specifically for emergency situations.
Being a PBP TD must be the best job in the world. You can say and propose whatever you want because you know you’ll never have to actually rule.
It grinds my gears that parties come out NOW with all of these demands for the Budget. It’s next fucking week. It’s basically all locked in. surely they know that none of these demands have time to be met? It just really feels like political point scoring and as much as I hate FFFG, this shit doesnt help.
If they were serious about this they had months and months to speak up, try and get it taken seriously.
PBP obviously only care about rich people otherwise they’d pay us for using fossil fuels and give us 5000 each instead of 1000.
And right on cue the bullshit from PBP has arrived
Why is this seen as ludacris?
Germany has nationalised their biggest energy company.
Holland own their own energy as well. It isn’t that outlandish an idea.
This really is the fucking Van Wilder party. When will they grow up?
Budget Day: Everyone gets €1000
Day 2: Energy prices up €1000
Incredibly based.
Don’t know why people are pretending that this is some kind of crazy idea when plenty of European countries have fully nationalised energy companies recently.
Even the tories have implemented price controls and I think they are giving people some money to assist too.
We all make fun of the ‘Welfare cheats cheat us all’ bullshit. But most of you have bought into weird neoliberal market worship.
If the energy providers go bust, as they are going elsewhere in Europe, they’ll have to be nationalised anyway.
Statements from people before profit always reminds me of when my niece tells me when she grows up she’s gonna be bat man or a dinosaur
Yes please.
Oh god please don’t amplify clowns before profit. They literally just make shit up.
That’s when they’re not defending Putin’s regime ofc.
Public Services should be managed by the Public
This makes Sinn Fein look very conservative.
Example of votes for people like brid are a wasted vote.
Easy answers appeal to empty vessels.
Spoken like a true woman who hasn’t a fucking rasher about the Single Energy Market.
Don’t stop there. Nationalise rubbish collection, give us back our roads and water as well.
I want a pony.
Neoliberalism or Thatcher/ Reganomics is such a blight on the world. Selling off public utilities and expecting the miracle of the free market to run it better or more efficiently. Such a disaster for the world and people’s lives.
Government spending contributes to inflation. When debt grows so much that people don’t believe the ECB or the government will pay on bonds, they sell their bonds and buy other things, sending prices up.
Adding cash to consumers’ pockets contributes to inflation — people spend the money, driving prices up.
Pandemic supply constraints have helped lead to inflation as well.
Why give everyone €1000 that would serve no benefit
Taking that €1000 and investing it in energy products would be better.
1.4 million smart meters. = 1.4bn which would buy a lot of battery storage , Solar, Build A LNG terminal etc
Also nationalising would do nothing. As we import it fossil fuel so still at the mercy of external influences
And that €1000 they give out would be from taxation, so we’d pay for it ourselves
PBP are such populist shitebags.
They know their core demographic are economic ignoramuses who think “The government should pay for everything” is the solution to every problem, and lap up this nonsense, no matter how ridiculous it is.
Bunch of idiots
They just pull this stuff out of their rich deluded arses.
Why only 1000? Why not a million??
It’s very easy to make statements like this when you’re on 3 or 4 % in the polls and in no real danger of forming a government.
The problem for them will be if Sinn Fein fall short of an overall majority in the next election and have to go into coalition with other left parties, i.e. them. They theie voters will expect them to start to deliver on their promises.
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Alakazam!
NATIONALISE EVERYTHING … EASY
The only thing more comical than a SF budget is a PBP budget
Great. We can burn the worthless paper money to keep warm when the nationalised energy companies shut down
Fuckit, as long as we’re throwing reality out the window let’s nationalise the canaries and NI while we’re at it
Certain key infrastructure and provision should never have been sold. Electricity, water, basic foods, public transport etc. These are essentials for people. The government should always have a significant shareholding in each of these specifically for emergency situations.
Being a PBP TD must be the best job in the world. You can say and propose whatever you want because you know you’ll never have to actually rule.
It grinds my gears that parties come out NOW with all of these demands for the Budget. It’s next fucking week. It’s basically all locked in. surely they know that none of these demands have time to be met? It just really feels like political point scoring and as much as I hate FFFG, this shit doesnt help.
If they were serious about this they had months and months to speak up, try and get it taken seriously.
PBP obviously only care about rich people otherwise they’d pay us for using fossil fuels and give us 5000 each instead of 1000.
And right on cue the bullshit from PBP has arrived
Why is this seen as ludacris?
Germany has nationalised their biggest energy company.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/21/germany-nationalises-biggest-gas-importer-avert-supply-crisis
France are doing it
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-19/france-offers-to-pay-9-9-billion-for-edf-nationalization#:~:text=full%20state%20ownership.-,Energy%20Crisis,Elisabeth%20Borne%20announced%20the%20nationalization.
Sweden already do it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Sweden
Holland own their own energy as well. It isn’t that outlandish an idea.
This really is the fucking Van Wilder party. When will they grow up?
Budget Day: Everyone gets €1000
Day 2: Energy prices up €1000
Incredibly based.
Don’t know why people are pretending that this is some kind of crazy idea when plenty of European countries have fully nationalised energy companies recently.
Even the tories have implemented price controls and I think they are giving people some money to assist too.
We all make fun of the ‘Welfare cheats cheat us all’ bullshit. But most of you have bought into weird neoliberal market worship.
If the energy providers go bust, as they are going elsewhere in Europe, they’ll have to be nationalised anyway.
Statements from people before profit always reminds me of when my niece tells me when she grows up she’s gonna be bat man or a dinosaur
Yes please.
Oh god please don’t amplify clowns before profit. They literally just make shit up.
That’s when they’re not defending Putin’s regime ofc.
Public Services should be managed by the Public
This makes Sinn Fein look very conservative.
Example of votes for people like brid are a wasted vote.
Easy answers appeal to empty vessels.
Spoken like a true woman who hasn’t a fucking rasher about the Single Energy Market.
Don’t stop there. Nationalise rubbish collection, give us back our roads and water as well.
I want a pony.
Neoliberalism or Thatcher/ Reganomics is such a blight on the world. Selling off public utilities and expecting the miracle of the free market to run it better or more efficiently. Such a disaster for the world and people’s lives.
Government spending contributes to inflation. When debt grows so much that people don’t believe the ECB or the government will pay on bonds, they sell their bonds and buy other things, sending prices up.
Adding cash to consumers’ pockets contributes to inflation — people spend the money, driving prices up.
Pandemic supply constraints have helped lead to inflation as well.
Why give everyone €1000 that would serve no benefit
Taking that €1000 and investing it in energy products would be better.
1.4 million smart meters. = 1.4bn which would buy a lot of battery storage , Solar, Build A LNG terminal etc
Also nationalising would do nothing. As we import it fossil fuel so still at the mercy of external influences
And that €1000 they give out would be from taxation, so we’d pay for it ourselves
PBP are such populist shitebags.
They know their core demographic are economic ignoramuses who think “The government should pay for everything” is the solution to every problem, and lap up this nonsense, no matter how ridiculous it is.
Bunch of idiots
They just pull this stuff out of their rich deluded arses.
Why only 1000? Why not a million??
It’s very easy to make statements like this when you’re on 3 or 4 % in the polls and in no real danger of forming a government.
The problem for them will be if Sinn Fein fall short of an overall majority in the next election and have to go into coalition with other left parties, i.e. them. They theie voters will expect them to start to deliver on their promises.
P(ublically) B(rainless) F(ools)