Kevin Myers
We were pleased to welcome the support this morning of Kevin Myers, who came out as a convert to the Yes side in this morning’s Irish Independent.
In it, he excoriated the new leaflet published by the UKIP’s European Parliamentary Group.
The ‘No’ pamphlet also showed a picture of a large hypodermic with the caption: “Will we get EUthanasia?” Well, that kind of disgusting and disingenuous question is what we repeatedly got during the infamous divorce referendum debate in the 1980s. And my answer is that if we do get EUthanasia, the very first people we should EUthanase are the fine fellows who went in for EUthanasia scare tactics before the referendum.
A comparable piece of mischief was at work with the pamphlet’s sly and grubby query: “Do you wish to split up the family farm?” Ah, that one again.
At least, the ‘No’ pamphlet spares us any wheedling insinuations about conscription and neutrality — perhaps because the authors know that, aside from the fir-bolg Left, as characterised by the Rossport potties, most people know that our neutrality is dead. We are Europeans. Our soldiers must be part of the European Reaction Force, and have already served in Chad within that military framework. .
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Right… so you’re signing a document that very, very few people have read, even fewer if any understand in full – but we do know – ‘coz they’ve told us – that it gives the Qunagocrats in Brussels more power and control over more money – now erm… how ‘dya reckon that’ll play out then? More gravy for Ireland ?
You’ve the arch trougher Blair preening himself and sucking up to the Cardinals… ’sher he might be the next holy father too the way he’s carryin on.
Irish troops fighting in Tchad to keep French uranium flowing – d’ya have a nuke station or a long extension lead?
Irish soldiers were in Chad protecting refugees. How dare you disparage them.
The situation on the Chad/Sudan border is very very well publicised and the mission had the support of the UN. Cop yourself on.
LOL
It should come as no surprise to anyone to hear that Kevin Myers, an upper crust iconoclast, decided to vote one way because he disagreed with the other way, not because of any support for the Yes campaign.
Dennis says:
September 28, 2009 at 6:05 pm
” Irish soldiers were in Chad protecting refugees. How dare you disparage them. ”
Dennis, you are wrong. Alittle bit of investigating will reveal the person above you is correct, but in a naive world, truth is a scary thing.
And of course, only the experts in conspiracy theories have the inside track on “the truth”. How about letting us in on the big uranium secret hiding out in Chad that outfoxed the UN?
Bet the ‘mericans are behind it all, right Comrade?
Comrade? lmao
Youve got it back to front my dear. Centralization of power ( which, in case you hadnt noticed, is what this treaty is all about ) is a communist ideal, and that is what YOU support, not I.
I believe in democracy and independance as opposed to giving control of our monetary system to an unelected, bureaucratic and undemocratic ECB, who happen to be a lobby for the financial sector in the exact same way as what the Fed is in the US.
On the other hand, a Yes vote means you support the idea that we, in Ireland and every other European nation, should give power over our monetary system to a lobby for the financial sector.
It is you my dear who believes in centralisation of power, not I. It comes as no surprise to see that the supporters of this treaty are juvenile in their arguements and inaccurate in their analysis.
Ah the old Sinn Fein favourite comes out, “analysis”.
So you’d rather we went back to having the good old punt with Bertie’s appointed Governor running the show from a race-tent. Nothing like a few devaluations to sort everything out, a la Zimbabwe, or perhaps you’d espouse the Icelandic model as how a small economy can survive when the bubble bursts.
No, (my dear!!!)I have no problem with the ECB, or sharing sovereignty for that matter. But for the ECB we would truly be swallowing a far more bitter pill from the greed that was the Celtic Tiger.
What’s Sinn Feins solution, sink a few more wells off the Atlantic at a billion euros a pop as Mr. Adams famously proposed two years ago?
I’m not going to talk about sinn fein that’s not what this post is about what i would like to talk about is however the subject of this post that being Kevin Myers.
Kevin Myers is the person that wrote and i quote “How many girls – and we’re largely talking about teenagers here – consciously embark upon a career of mothering bastards because it seems a good way of getting money and accommodation from the State?”endquote,in this statement he refers to irish teenage girls which just goes to show how much he thinks of irish woman as awhole.
He also wrote an article arguing that “providing aid to Africa only results in increasing its population, and its problems” which the the Immigrant Council of Ireland made a complaint to the Guards alleging incitement to hatred.
Kevin Myers writes for Irish Independent and is English.
English is he !!……a crime against humanity for sure, begorra, bejeebers. Hang him high.
So should fellow Englishman Nigel Farage of UKIP, whose party is far more anti-Irish(including women I take it) and anti-immigrant than Myers could ever be now be rounded on? What about the racist anti-Turkish literature UKIP produced on this Treaty, any criticism of that forthcoming? Or is it OK to bring up the non-issue but conveniently scaremongering sceptre of Turkish EU accession because he’s on your side.
But Nigel does have a leprechaun hat and beer-stained tricolour so I guess those credentials are enough for the no side to adopt him.
And ponder on this wise one. Where was Declan Ganley born? And we don’t need reminding he has an Irish passport at present.
“Kevin Myers writes for Irish Independent and is English.” was just a clarification as was the rest of the post,but really you got me laughing with your unrelated ramblings.