onlyasking
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Our leaders have surrendered the immediate futures of millions of Irish citizens to the needs of the European banking classes. Almost everywhere it is acknowledged that the very small population of this state will carry most of the burden in saving the banks of very much greater nations, banks without which the scale of our present calamity would have been impossible.
We as a nation were put up against a wall by our EU friends and given two options: accept years or even decades of poverty, dispossession or exile, or your lives will not be worth living.
If these terms were offered by a foreign military force off our coasts, there are many who would be willing to fight and even to die rather than accept the servility and impoverishment of their children.
In this instance, our leaders, bereft of any meaningful mandate whatsoever and guaranteed the role of richly-pensioned spectators in the future, undertook what appears to be the most abject peace-time surrender in modern history.
For what? It is eminently possible that the lives of a huge proportion of our population will not be worth living anyway as a result of the almost unimaginable burden now being imposed on us by our friends in the EU. Furthermore, it is dawning on many people that, in what is a holding operation for the EUs banking system, the terms and the numbers simply do not add up. A failure of the numbers to add up is of minimal concern to our EU friends, as the intention is clearly to ring-fence any resulting pain so that only the mere Irish suffer.
As it is, just a couple of days after this ECB-driven 'fix', it looks as if the most expensive sticking-plaster in history has fallen off the victim. Portugal, Spain, Italy and now Belgium are being drawn into the centre of the banking maelstrom. Despite the failure of the measure, well still have to pay tens of billions for the faulty goods.
We are going to have an election soon. We will then have a government with something of a mandate. Seeing as this latest EU fix is looking more and more likely to result in failure, and as that larger failure across the Eurozone would make Ireland and other states very likely to default at any rate, crucial questions arise
Should all of the opposition parties begin to think the unthinkable, should they campaign on a commitment to stand up for the citizens of this state, and should a new government consider telling the EU that it has been mandated to tear up the documents of surrender?
Todays Daily Telegraph provides us with a powerful view from Britain. The understanding that we have been forced to kneel before our European masters rings through loud and clear.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the Telegraphs International Business Editor, identifies the enormity of the choice we are faced with: what the Irish have before them is a political choice about what they wish to be as a people, and a nation.
Ireland's Debt Servitude Telegraph Blogs
The question is, do we accept this crushingly unjust outcome, or do we stand up as a people and say enough is enough. Is there any limit to the price we are willing to pay to our friends in the EU? Is poverty, dispossession and exile too high a price? If not, then we as a people have indeed been brought to our knees.
We sleepwalked into our calamity. Lets not sleepwalk into our ultimate demise. The unthinkable must become a central issue in the coming election.
We as a nation were put up against a wall by our EU friends and given two options: accept years or even decades of poverty, dispossession or exile, or your lives will not be worth living.
If these terms were offered by a foreign military force off our coasts, there are many who would be willing to fight and even to die rather than accept the servility and impoverishment of their children.
In this instance, our leaders, bereft of any meaningful mandate whatsoever and guaranteed the role of richly-pensioned spectators in the future, undertook what appears to be the most abject peace-time surrender in modern history.
For what? It is eminently possible that the lives of a huge proportion of our population will not be worth living anyway as a result of the almost unimaginable burden now being imposed on us by our friends in the EU. Furthermore, it is dawning on many people that, in what is a holding operation for the EUs banking system, the terms and the numbers simply do not add up. A failure of the numbers to add up is of minimal concern to our EU friends, as the intention is clearly to ring-fence any resulting pain so that only the mere Irish suffer.
As it is, just a couple of days after this ECB-driven 'fix', it looks as if the most expensive sticking-plaster in history has fallen off the victim. Portugal, Spain, Italy and now Belgium are being drawn into the centre of the banking maelstrom. Despite the failure of the measure, well still have to pay tens of billions for the faulty goods.
We are going to have an election soon. We will then have a government with something of a mandate. Seeing as this latest EU fix is looking more and more likely to result in failure, and as that larger failure across the Eurozone would make Ireland and other states very likely to default at any rate, crucial questions arise
Should all of the opposition parties begin to think the unthinkable, should they campaign on a commitment to stand up for the citizens of this state, and should a new government consider telling the EU that it has been mandated to tear up the documents of surrender?
Todays Daily Telegraph provides us with a powerful view from Britain. The understanding that we have been forced to kneel before our European masters rings through loud and clear.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the Telegraphs International Business Editor, identifies the enormity of the choice we are faced with: what the Irish have before them is a political choice about what they wish to be as a people, and a nation.
Ireland's Debt Servitude Telegraph Blogs
The question is, do we accept this crushingly unjust outcome, or do we stand up as a people and say enough is enough. Is there any limit to the price we are willing to pay to our friends in the EU? Is poverty, dispossession and exile too high a price? If not, then we as a people have indeed been brought to our knees.
We sleepwalked into our calamity. Lets not sleepwalk into our ultimate demise. The unthinkable must become a central issue in the coming election.