A sad reflection on our society....and a good omen for the future of devolved government

 ... Witness the litter on footpaths,in ditches,on verges,on the roadway and the broken bottles and beer cans on our footwalks after the weekend. One realises that there is very little respect for District Council litter pickers and a great need for more vehicle road-sweepers . 

Can some gifted young engineer not come up with a better means of plucking litter from hedgerows?


Signs of progress

Our new granite footpaths in the town centre of Enniskillen are a credit to central government and are one of the few redeeming features of devolved government.

Bail o dhia ar an obair aoibh go leir!

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5.12.2022

Our doctors and desk-bound civil servants talk a lot of nonsense about pay rises. Similarly,teachers and nurses. They will seek percentage pay rises or more to those achieved by municipal workers. Let us resist these demands and instead seek the much-maligned narrowing of pay and salary differentials which benchmarking was intended to achieve in the South of Ireland. I doubt, however,with Blairmania still ringing in our ears,that a Labour government will take the side of the worker and the poor. Their friends,these days,are the rich.

Blair is best remembered by the millions,if not tens of millions,who suffered under medical totalitarianism as a crypto-fascist who was not committed to any system of legal rights or mutually acceptable international behaviour.

Let us see,those of us pensioned off or part of the intelligentsia,that our working people who clean our streets,empty our bins,work in waste depots,labour on farms,slave in factories and feed the hungry and the clergyman who caters for their spiritual needs are the real heroes in our society,not political yakking birds in the English Conservative Party who would not know their arse from their elbow if was hung on the wall in front of them.

Let us have grassroots democracy and, because we are not an advanced society with a long history of public justice,a popular upsurge of the poor.


Democracy of the 99%?

Treasure our trade unions, therefore. They are all we have and the STRIKE movement.

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