I have a strong disagreement for one simple fact: this is democracy manifest.
That is to say, the leaders are not the problem. The problem is the voters.
The open secret is that the people who decide who governs *want and are happy with* a situation in which incumbents get outrageous returns on housing investments. They have no interest in the next generation and no-one holds them to account.
I cannot expect an elected leader to go against the wishes of his or her constituency. It is the older generations of voters who the Irish youth of tomorrow will never be able to forgive.
A real solution requires leadership. But none of the mainstream politicians have vision or the courage to cross a chasm, they can only envision incremental change and meddle through one muddle after another, adding sticking plasters when amputation is needed. So we continue with structural incentives to build the wrong homes in the wrong places with the wrong facilities, with wrong financing and wrong repayments.
Complete change cannot happen overnight because of not only the complexity of the current system but also long term financial obligations are expensive to unwind.
What could be done is to build new towns on greenfield sites with convenient, friendly well-equipped multi-generational neighbourhoods with incentives for business to create/move jobs, not just be dormitories for Dublin. And with the Town Corporation having permanent ownership of a large proportion to provide fairly priced housing.
There is no fixing this dump or its beaten docket loser populace,
British rule worked in so far as making the Irish a bunch of servile weaklings,
Just go back to the covid scam period, what did the people do? they bent over and pulled their butt cheeks apart for the anal rogering that the political class were delivering on behalf of those that are actually in charge,
A small radicalised minority will eventually get around to using the requisite violence that is needed to bring the the necessary changes, civil war is coming and it won't be pretty,
Sure the asylum system is ugly but we never needed one in the first place, that is the problem, we have no hope of ever moving forward whilst we make ourselves a life-raft for the world,
A great article for sure and my one tiny quibble is the author describing covid as a crisis,
Please tell me you understand the orchestrated contrivance that was and that you had the balls to resist your clot shot,
I won't see the coming disaster and I fucking hate all the dipshits who choose to bury their heads in the sand, it will be epic but not in a good way,
It’s the same in most of the West. The shift in economies from making and engineering toward speculation and financialisation turned houses into ‘property’ then into investments. The political system drove the state to stop being a participant in house building and eventually in any activity that called for high level skill, taste, artistry or novelty. And we end up with a tax driven money laundry tied to property, but really about the abandonment of principles and values
I have a strong disagreement for one simple fact: this is democracy manifest.
That is to say, the leaders are not the problem. The problem is the voters.
The open secret is that the people who decide who governs *want and are happy with* a situation in which incumbents get outrageous returns on housing investments. They have no interest in the next generation and no-one holds them to account.
I cannot expect an elected leader to go against the wishes of his or her constituency. It is the older generations of voters who the Irish youth of tomorrow will never be able to forgive.
There are lots of ideas on how to fix this "condition" but none I heard of yet of which will get a politician re-elected. Perhaps you have one.
Fantastic article.
A real solution requires leadership. But none of the mainstream politicians have vision or the courage to cross a chasm, they can only envision incremental change and meddle through one muddle after another, adding sticking plasters when amputation is needed. So we continue with structural incentives to build the wrong homes in the wrong places with the wrong facilities, with wrong financing and wrong repayments.
Complete change cannot happen overnight because of not only the complexity of the current system but also long term financial obligations are expensive to unwind.
What could be done is to build new towns on greenfield sites with convenient, friendly well-equipped multi-generational neighbourhoods with incentives for business to create/move jobs, not just be dormitories for Dublin. And with the Town Corporation having permanent ownership of a large proportion to provide fairly priced housing.
There is no fixing this dump or its beaten docket loser populace,
British rule worked in so far as making the Irish a bunch of servile weaklings,
Just go back to the covid scam period, what did the people do? they bent over and pulled their butt cheeks apart for the anal rogering that the political class were delivering on behalf of those that are actually in charge,
A small radicalised minority will eventually get around to using the requisite violence that is needed to bring the the necessary changes, civil war is coming and it won't be pretty,
Sure the asylum system is ugly but we never needed one in the first place, that is the problem, we have no hope of ever moving forward whilst we make ourselves a life-raft for the world,
A great article for sure and my one tiny quibble is the author describing covid as a crisis,
Please tell me you understand the orchestrated contrivance that was and that you had the balls to resist your clot shot,
I won't see the coming disaster and I fucking hate all the dipshits who choose to bury their heads in the sand, it will be epic but not in a good way,
We are indeed an ugly people.
It’s the same in most of the West. The shift in economies from making and engineering toward speculation and financialisation turned houses into ‘property’ then into investments. The political system drove the state to stop being a participant in house building and eventually in any activity that called for high level skill, taste, artistry or novelty. And we end up with a tax driven money laundry tied to property, but really about the abandonment of principles and values