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David Cameron: "penny pinching accountant"
TheTruth1983
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That's according to Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd who has explicitly stated that there would be no deal if Cameron doesn't hand over more money.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-30440229
Bang goes the corporation tax dream.
Bang goes any hope of a deal on flags and parades.
Bang goes the futures of the young people of Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein need to suck it up, and agree a deal on welfare reform and the budget so we can all move forward with re-balancing our economy away from the public sector.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-30440229
Bang goes the corporation tax dream.
Bang goes any hope of a deal on flags and parades.
Bang goes the futures of the young people of Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein need to suck it up, and agree a deal on welfare reform and the budget so we can all move forward with re-balancing our economy away from the public sector.
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I'm still convinced Sinn Fein are playing politics with the people of Northern Ireland. They want to go to the electorate in the Republic as the anti austerity party saying "look at us, we opposed all cuts North and South". Meanwhile we have an economy 8% smaller than in 2007 in Northern Ireland.
I think they want the executive to collapse tbh.
Let London take all the hard decisions they won't take and then make a big stand opposing what they've done to try and boost support for the upcoming elections.
Remind me, where was this Sinn Fein criticism when the cuts were debated in Westminster?
Why? No honestly why?
I fully agree with Sinn Fein (and the DUP) on this one. Cameron was also being deeply insincere (i.e. a lying flocker) and misleading too. He was offering a possible loan not extra grants for the province.
I regard the peace process is ongoing and my firm view is that Northern Ireland's budget should have been ring-fenced and protected just like the overseas aid budget was in order to help keep the province stable. Presumably that last aspect was down to that miserable and mean-spirited millionaire bastard Osborne.
But Cameron does have the money. If he and that flocker Osborne can afford the £90 billion HS2 white elephant monstrosity then they sure as hell can afford to protect and ring fence Northern Ireland's budget.
It is in the UK's wider, long term interest to keep Northern Ireland stable and prosperous because the costs of not doing so, in terms of economic decline and resurgent terrorism, would be significantly larger.
Why should NI's public spending budget be protected when everyone else's is being cut?
Answer:
Never going to happen as they hate the Tories.
Sinn Fein are enjoying the gravy train too much to ever go back to violence besides they've no longer got the backing of Gaddafi or the USA in terrorism.
So, basically, Sinn Fein are saying "give us lots of money or we'll bomb you"?
And yet this country/nation's supposed to be in debt. It makes you laugh. That's an insane amount of money.
Adams wanted Cameron to hand over a huge sum of money with no strings attached.
Cameron walked away and a good thing too.
No, they did nothing of the sort and harsh cuts in Northern Ireland at the present time have the grave potential to destabilise both the province and the peace process and that is a profoundly ignorant, irresponsible and short term thing to do on the part of Cameron and Osborne.
Again, that's not the case. The nationalist and unionist parties were united on this issue.
Here's what DUP leader Peter Robinson said:
Northern Ireland is already relatively deprived when compared with the rest of the UK and it is also over-dependent on state spending. That latter aspect does need to be addressed over the long term and harsh, damaging and destabilising are the last thing that the province needs right now.
The two political parties that regularly stoke up sectarianism to win votes, refuse to compromise band work together on anything and generally show no competence on how to run a government are the biggest destabilizing factors.
Sien Feins point blank refusal to sign up to welfare reforms is causing as much damage as any Westminster cut.
Only if paid in a lump sum it would be but HS2, like all capital projects, is spread out over many years.
I suppose Labour will have to let work on this continue if work on it actually starts before the next big election and Labour gets in.
And paying them Danegeld won't improve anything.
Think it was keep the corporation tax raised, rather than it going to the Treasury.
Well if English devolution comes to pass, you will get to feel special when you get a grant from the UK government that your budget must not exceed.