05.03.07
Government/Fianna Fail junk mail
Justin’s started logging Bertie’s election spam, noting which leaflets are from the “government” which means you pay for them.
I got the parenting leaflet twice, couldn’t believe the irony of the getting the environment one which is printed in Irish as well, and today, a 12 pager on the National Disability Authority. This is all so bogus and clearly politically organised. And we pay for it.
Greeeaaat.
An interesting twist in Meath West. How about this for a scenario?
Graham doesn’t do so well but since he’s targetting the working class vote he gets eliminated and his transfers elect Joe O’ Reilly from Sinn Fein. Do you know, they way things are with FF, I think I’d actually prefer Joe to Johnny Brady. Especially as Bertie says he wouldn’t go into coalition with SF. Yeah Right Bertie. Do you know, I used to go around saying I believed that Bertie was honest? Shows all I know.
Stephen Neill said,
May 3, 2007 at 9:17 pm
As a parent of a child with special needs I was dissappointed to find no mention of this in the parenting leaflet and the Disability leaflet was an insult to those who have to deal with disability issues. It is nothing but aspirations and intentions and completly lacking in tangeable support for those in this catgory. My son attends a special school where speach and language therapy services are only available on an assesment basis and where the hydro-therapy pool was only recently re-opened and cannot be maintained without additional payments from parents of children in the school. So what the government gives wih the one hand in tax relief and domicilliary allowance is taken back through the unavoidable recource to private therapy and subsidy of so called state services. ROTFLOL!
And the solution – A fucking leaflet on recycled paper!
Padraig O'Morain said,
May 3, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Well, I didn’t get the parenting leaflet at all though I did get a leaflet from Sean Ardagh TD FF with a pic of those two penguins from the Guinness ad and various other “green” photographs. But that comment from Stephen Neill above illustrates the disconnection between the election campaign and the needs of those who are too easily disregarded.
Padraig
Stephen Neill said,
May 3, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Thanks Padraig – sometimes just to know somebody else cares makes all the difference