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Now that cannibal piglets have been added to the Mongrel Foxes in the Fine Gael menagerie, it has become clear that the Coalition Leopard has not changed its spots. The same arrogance is present, the same attitude to anyone who dares voice an alter native opinion PRINCESS MARGARET.
This time the target is a bit different: now its a case of cannibal piglets eating up the resources of the state. John Kelly has turned James Joyce around to make people cannibal piglets eating up the old sow. Of course John Kelly is not the first person to refer to Irish working people in this manner. A certain Princess Margaret also described us as ‘pigs’ not so long ago to ahuge volume of protests.One would have thought that sauce for the goose would have been sauce for the gander.
SHOWMAN.
But seriously though, the Dail’s chief -showman is not making all these after dinner speeches to the well-fed businness community without a purpose. Arguements of this sort are designed to soften‘us up for the next wage round. Making the working people feel guilty about the already grossly inadequate social services is one way of trying to reduce the protests An Muc ar Buile. when the Government cuts back again, After all;who who wants to bea cannibal piglet?.
LEFTIES.
Mind you, most people do not take such talk all that seriously and care little what nastv John Kelly calls them. It is, however, a bit embarrassing for Kelly’s ‘socialist’ colleagues on the Coalition benches..especially for the ‘lefties’. So up jumps Micheal D(Higgins), to you) to defendthe ‘Welfare’ Siate and salvage his image-as.a radical.
LABOURS HOT AIR LEFTIES. No doubt the ‘hot air lefties of the Labour Party will appreciate this. Though Micheal did not declare opposition to future attacks by the Coalition or about proposing a fightback .We judge people not only by what they say, but also by what they do. Micheal D. is a legal supporter of the Coalition in the Dail lobbies.
Up there on the Coalition benches, it may sound like ‘jolly good stuff’ .maybe it will even earn a few more Chamber of Commerce dinners ..but the message from down here in the sty is..Bring down the Coalition before they make sausage meat of us all!. written on.
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rubber and plastic bullets were developed Belfast Peoples Democracy Councillor, plastic bullets fired by the RUC during the riot at Unity Flats. In a statement O’Hare said: “Just as the RUC have not defeated the prisoners — their plastic bullets will not defeat their supporters on the streets either.” at Porton trom the wooden ‘broomstick’ rounds used by the Hong Kong police in rigts which occurred in 1967.
“The fatality rate for the 55,000 rubber bullets fired (in Northern Ireland) was 1 per 18,000. Prior to the current disturbances 13,000 plastic bullets had children.
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