The Voice of the People

Yesterday many tens of thousands of Irish workers took to the streets to send a very clear message to this inept Government, that message was that their days of greed and self serving are coming to a rapid end. This Government that has committed tens of billions of Tax payers money to bail out corrupt bankers and property developers has done little to help the tens of thousands of ordinary decent citizens who have lost the jobs and their homes through no fault of their own. This Government continues to live in luxury while children in its care are treated like animals (Mr Justice Peter Kelly). This Government continues to drive around in chauffeur driven Tax payer funded limousines while children are being denied basic standards of Human dignity. Women are being driven from the work place as child care facilities are being denied to them, Women are being specifically targeted by this Government by way of cuts in basic welfare payments such as rent supplement in order to drive them back into the home where women already account for 87% of all domestic care. This Government is about to attack the most vulnerable in the December budget, this it will do by cutting basic welfare payments in the hope of driving tens of thousands of young Irish people out of the country and to drive those foreign nationals who served this country so well during the economic boom back to their own countries. This the Government hopes will reduce the Live Register figures and take the pressure of them as an inept Government. The Government is pursuing the same policies that Fianna Fail pursued in the 1980s when tens of thousands of young Irish were driven from these shores. Yet this Government has underestimated the determination of the Irish People to see them from office, the Irish people are ready and waiting for the day when they can march to the polling station and drive this not fit for purpose Government into political history.