Billions no doubt.. Surveyors are rubbing their hands ATM..

Cheap shot Dario! I’m a surveyor who done my bit in wellies to pay my college fees. And surveyed enough shoddy building work to make NAMA look like a cutehoor owning a string of dodgy flats in Rathmines

Did you okay that shoddy building work?

I won’t be surprised when the EU comes looking for their pound of flesh – what little is left of our sovereignty. Bit by bit we are being bought. They know that they only have to show us the money and be wont resist, like when they were buying the farmers off the land.

oh and no i don’t work as a developer, contractor etc..

Yes, down with this sort of thing, I say.

I mean, APART from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order… what have the EU ever done for us?

Given us Catholicism!

Supported dictators, encouraged the growth of a murderous arms industry, taken democracy away from the citizens, abused their position of power, destroyed the economies of several countries, wiped out native industries in several EU countries, encouraged the “ban” on the growth and development of Third World countries by imposing restrictive trade and tariff agreements on their produce, encouraged the destruction of Capitalism by imposing policies which result in no-risk solutions for large businesses (the poor will pay for the deliberate fuck-ups of the rich)….

I bet you’re a blast at parties, Brian.

Oh so personal insults are now required to make a proper analysis of what the EU has actually done for us? Wow, let me join that club! Has the EU provided us with medicine – no. Has it improved our education – no. Public health – well the current state of our health service which is worse now than ever would lead one to believe that, no, the EU has not helped here either. Public order? How has the EU provided better public order in Ireland? It may have done elsewhere, but not here. Baths??? Freshwater system??? Has the EU provided us with many benefits – yes. The question that must be asked though is this: should past good deeds blind us to what the EU is becoming? Do we share in the vision of Sarkozy and Merkel? Do we want Berlusconi as one of our leaders? What about Barosso who doesn’t know his head from his elbow? The EU does not work. It can’t work. We as citizens of the EU are not a homogenous group with a common defined patriotism for that institution. The old motto of the EU is long since dead and buried. You know the old “Unity in Diversity”! The EU now believes in Diversity only so far as that diversity is homogenous. We have directives levied on us without our say. We have an unelected “President”. We have a central bank which has no interest in the development or sustainability of the peripheral states such as Ireland, Portugal, Estonia, Cyprus, etc. The politicians at the very heart of the institution are generally paid exorbitant salaries even though they have very little real power – the EU Parliament is not much more than a debating chamber. We have a currency which, due to its artificial nature and the fact that certain countries that adopted it had grossly doctored their accounts, is bound to fail, with billions of taxpayers money being poured into it to keep it afloat for what will be a futile exercise. We have the likes of France which insists that French-speaking minorities must be protected in other countries and given full rights when it comes to linguistic issues, while at the same time denying their own indigenous minorities the same rights (i.e. the Alsatians, the Savoyards, the Basques, the Catalans, the Corsicans, the Bretons, the Occitans, the Flemish, the Picards, etc.). We have one country at the very heart of Europe which can’t even form a government (since June 2010) and which is on the verge of disintegration. We have politicians throwing racist and xenophobic remarks at entire nations when those nations’ citizens declare they do not share the same vision as the Eurocrats. Bullyboy tactics at the heart of Europe. What once was a fantastic and positive force for Europe has rapidly degenerated into farce, contempt for citizens, contempt for those not part of the EU, corruption, anti-democratic actions and policies, and corruption. Forgive me if I don’t wish to be part of such a group.

John, you are so off the wall with that silly remark. Why don’t you read what I said again and try and make a coherent comment!

was replying to Aidan Sheelagh