I have nothing against Chris Andrews personally. In fact, I contacted him during the Gaza crisis to express my support for his calls for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. However, as an elected representative of Fianna Fail, he too is accountable for the most savage budget in living memory.
Lenihan’s budget doubled the levy on low and middle income workers and robbed welfare recipients of their Christmas bonus. Mean? Absolutely. Even meaner when you consider that while people have been robbed of their xmas dinner the 6,000 tax exiles emerged completely unscathed from the budget. The budget could have made some real inroads into idle wealth by ending the tax exemption on wealthy artists who don’t need it and increasing higher rate taxation. Instead it was disproportionate, unfair and penny-pinching.
Our protest outside Chris Andrews’ constituency office on Friday drew great support. Amongst those who ‘honked’ their horns to show their support of People Before Profit’s protest were bus drivers and even a Garda car! We shouldn’t forget the many cyclists who rang their bells too.
If you oppose the cuts and you want to send a message to FF / Greens locally, join my election campaign. Remember, with their talk of not increasing tax and their influx of former PD’s Fine Gael represent an attitude to ordinary working people even worse than FF/Green; I hope Labour do well in the locals but we know that they have a nasty tendency to sell out; and SF need to extricate their left wing values from their atavistic nationalism.
Check www.bryceevans.org regularly for details on more activity in Pembroke / Rathmines.
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April 18, 2009 at 6:38 am
Go Bryce, fight the power