Jimmy McDaid speaks out
One-time minister for Defence James McDaid has recently emerged from rehab to make some statements which will hopefully persuade taoiseach Brian Cowan to offer him a ministry. He has expressed his undying loyalty to the government, Fianna Fail and Mr Cowan. At the same time he has called for a general election to “clear the air”. Thus armed by the people’s mandate Fianna Fail would be empowered to undertake “tough” decisions to promote economic well-being. The people he hopes (he dreams) would be conned into accepting bitter economic medicine because “the other crowd” i.e. the blueshirts, will have to implement the same policies. In other words according to Jimmy, an election would not involve the people exercising their choice to benefit themselves. No. The choice would be between voting for Fianna Fail and getting fucked up the arse on the one hand, and voting Fine Gael and getting fucked up the arse on the other. The result would be the same: the people would get fucked up the arse. The only difference would be the colour of the prick. So the people are supposed to just say “Fuck me till I fart”.
These arguments are, to be kind, weak and banal, but are hardly surprising. Dr McDaid could well be described as the Amy Whitehouse of Irish politics. Here is a man who was caught speeding the wrong way up the road while under the influence of a sizable amount of drink, consumed at a nearby race meeting. Dr McDaid is a man who threw up his wife of many decades, the woman who had put up with his boozing and sequential womanising, in favour of a coterie of much younger bimbos..
Like many Ffers he talks about the need for “tough” decisions. Cutting the money paid to old age pensioners is not a tough decision. It is rather the height of cowardice. If the government really wanted to make tough decisions they could start by taking criminal action against the senior management of FAS for their waste of 48 million euro. But come on Ciaran, don’t be naïve. Take action against the likes of Mary Harney’s husband? I think not.
But I suppose Dr McDaid thinks he knows all about cowards. That’s what he called people who take their own life.
He is right, but only to a certain extent. I believe that a Fine Gael government, or one in which the Fine Gael party formed a part, would pursue such cowardly policies with even great vigour. Why wouldn’t they? They are their policies after all, ones of which Ernest Blythe, Eoin O’Duffy and John Kelly would have been proud. It is rather sickening then to see a member of the Fianna Fail party support such policies, as if they are the only economic show in town. Making the poor suffer for the squanderings of the rich should not play any role in the policies of a party that pays even lip-service to being republican, and we all know how much Jimmy McDaid likes to court the republican vote in Donegal North-East, even to the extent of “just happening” to be outside the court when IRA men were released.
But I suppose that was a tough decision on his part.
ciaran: yet another brilliant and withering commentary. the electeds and the appointeds expense accounts should be public record. here we have a freedom of information law. it requires public disclosure upon request of this kind of information unless the keeper of these records can credibly show that its release would cause some sort of irreparable harm. what a pol spends on his food and drink and shelter should be grist for public discourse. every budget has its hidden slush. what, for instance, is the annual budget of the museum? how much did it expend on the early modern ireland symposium to which you were not invited? inquiring minds should want to know. patrick
Patrick Clark
September 18, 2009 at 4:01 am
The episode of the Mock website is over , we had attended the High Court on the 5th Day of November 2009 as this case was in Camera , I can not tell you much about it , however we got off with a slap across the hand , in assurance that we would not Publish the Mock Website again .
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November 8, 2009 at 8:48 am