Ireland Goes Bust

[Peter Presland]

This could result in a new "Great Famine" the necessary conditions of which are set out in the Wiki entry extract below. Today's "Landlords" are the EU:

It's a powerful analogy David; and one which will resonate deeply in Ireland.

I have deep family connection with Ireland. My wife's mother had some horrific tales of her childhood experiences of the Black and Tans (she was born in 1909) and I have personal experience of the visceral nature of Irish working class antipathy to the British State - an antipathy which I have no hesitation in endorsing and encouraging.

I have posted at least a dozen comments on various Irish blogs this past couple of weeks making EXACTLY that analogy.

The present Irish government incumbents and the bulk of their Civil Servants are latter-day enablers of Ireland's new absentee landlords. The Irish population are on the cusp of a new wave of emigration (which will place the already crippling burden of these so-called 'austerity measures' on a shrinking tax base and further impoverish the country in a vicious downward spiral.

If the Irish population fail to rise up and reject these measure out of hand then the country does not have a future as a Sovereign State. It's that simple.