Just What Exactly Would Eamon Gilmore Cut ???

Ok so what exactly does Eamon Gilmore and the Irish Labour Party stand for? A quick glance at their policies page on the Irish Labour Party official website doesn’t reveal much. If you don’t believe me look for yourself here: http://www.labour.ie/policy/

The first three policy documents I see are on Sport, Youth, and the role of the Oireachtas since the Lisbon treaty. Hardly pressing issues you would say with probably the single largest budget of importance facing the House since Charlie Haughey and Ray McSharry came before them in 1987.

I must say that even though I am thoroughly dissatisfied with the manner in which the Government is handling our economic crisis I am for once in full agreement with Batt O’Keeffe. Eamon Gilmore seems to be solidly against every policy the Government has mooted as the budget approaches (as am I). However he hasn’t offered one suggestion as to how we are going to balance the books.

I did, in an earlier post, remark how in my opinion a substantial number of voters among the Irish electorate are morons. I do not take this back. With one of the recent polls putting the Irish Labour Party as high as 35% to prove my point on the low intellectual capacity of some voters.

Your average moronic voter appears to think that Eamon Gilmore will ride in on a white horse like Napoleon at Austerlitz to marshal the forces and turn back the tide of doom. If you are one of this group then please look at the Labour Party website: http://www.labour.ie/policy/

After you have looked at said website, perhaps you might be so good as to sit down and send me an e-mail, as to where on this site the budget deficit is being plugged? I can’t see one thing on the site to adjust our fiscal worries. I can however see quite a few topics that would help to take even more money out of your pockets. Universal Health Insurance would be one; I assure you that plenty of other ways to spend state money exist here as well.

The real fact of the matter is that the Irish Labour Party are a reactionary force as are so many other left wing organisations. They are led by a man who this week tried to cover his communist past by attempting to deny that he ever was a member of Official Sinn Fein.

The old Labour party under Dick Spring may have been somewhat stable in its policies. I may not have agreed with them, but at least I knew where I stood. The current Labour Party which is ran by a bunch of former Democratic Left TD’s (a reverse merger comes to mind!) is the same reactionary force devoid of any real policy that DL was in its heyday.

So to answer my initial question just what would a government led by Eamon Gilmore cut? The answer is NOTHING. They would continue the same old tax and spend policies espoused by the left of old; possibly doubling or tripling the national debt in the process, as they did back during the last  recession from 1982 to 1987. If you are one of those potential voters who has been misled into thinking Labour and Eamon Gilmore will save the day then be afraid, be very afraid.