Protests against fuel prices are entering their fourth dayFuel supplies at forecourts are under threat of running dry as up to 500 forecourts could be without fuelFuel supplies for ambulances under increasing pressureCheckpoint set up at protest camp outside Oil Refinery in CorkProtesters accused of having 'mixed messaging'The Defence Forces "remain on standby" to assist gardaí in clearing heavy vehicles from blockades.https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/fuel-price-protesters-secure-meeting-with-government-and-say-they-will-ease-blockades-1884812.htmlFuel protests: Taoiseach says oil supply at risk as public asked to only buy necessary fuel.
This really isn't just about fuel, it's a culmination of years of being ignored, ridiculed and spat on by the government. They tax us on fucking everything, what few pennies they leave in your pocket they covet and are thinking of ways to get their grubby paws on themLevies, fees, permanent "temporary" charges, funds and ring fenced allocations all on top of crippling taxes have destroyed this country They throw money around like drunken sailors to fucking foreigners but you ask for a crumb and all you get it the thick end of the billy club
>>532892012they voted for it
no dead migrants and guardia?nothing is happening
give em hell. is brea liom sibh, a chairde
>>532892012I can't wait until you IRAmaxx on them.
>>532892012It is a negligent government that does not ration a suddenly scarce vital commodity like fuel.
>>53289256565% tax on fuel currently while the price of everything else continues to go up. Whilst we're simultaneously turning into Mumbai. Feels bad man.
>>532892603Did they actually or did they vote for this like you lot voted for biden?
>>532893114last election many many ballots were purposely spoiled as protest. the dail does whatever the fuck they want just like in any other country. constantly pushing unpopular bills relentlessly forever over and over again. voting doesnt fucking matter
>>532893303Thought so. I am really glad Trump and Pissrael are destabilizing the entire world order with their retardation.I voted for that.
>>532892603The fuck we did, the greens were wiped out in the last election because nobody wanted anybody their hippie dippy bullshit. Government plowed on with it regardless. The only reason we have a government at the moment is that FF and FG, mortal enemies going back decades linked up together along with a few independents. Not that it matters much the opposition is just as bad if not worse>>532893303That was the presidential election, has zero effect on policy
>>532893114Voting here is a fucking meme at this stage. All the same shit regardless of party.
>>532893671granted. the principle remains
>>532893114lol
>>532892012>insurgencies>remove kebab
Paddies cheat at everything, its in their nature, any game, any quiz, anything you play with them involves a side game of spotting and stopping them cheating at it. It’s just a thing. I’m going watching the grand national with one tomorrow. It’s just in his nature to cheat like fuck at everything all the time you have to watch the daft cunt like a hawk even just playing pool or w/e. Irelands politicians are infamously corrupt even here where they are all either insane mumbo jumbo literal pedophile ring members (labour) or entitled thieves who will hoax plagues to steal £billions because they want money to be posh (conservatives).The people are just cash cows to be abused as much and as far as they can be abused. Politicians are in it ONLY to abuse everyone else for themselves. And since we all stare into media blankly while our minds are programmed there seems to be no limit on how far the abuse can go. Getting elected is a corrupt pedophile’s personal lottery win. They have stitched that shit up. But don’t blame me later on when your potatoes won’t grow because you had no fertiliser. You’re politicians will suggest that to you, you know. Making up another potato famine again because you wanted a free bag of crisps. You’ll get nowt. Got my eye on you.
>>532894669ask me how i know your eyes are too close together
>>532892012The farmers will cuck out and get a deal that only helps them. They'll walk away with some subsidies and the government will raise the tax.
>>532894669The Anglo deserves to be cheated and robbed at every opportunity
>>532897842its hard to feel bad for them getting browned the way they are. i dont feel that contempt for any other nations. norf lads are alright for the most part though
>>532892565The cunts gave 500 mill to the kike Zelensky, holy shit that made me mad
>>532899738weve given them billions. i wonder how much theyve received in total now
>>532892565>MUH TAXESYour taxes go to farmers, who are 100% reliant on government subsidies to stay in business.
>>532901303yeah some, and a lot goes to niggers living in hotels
>Just worth saying, for absolute clarity, because this keeps getting presented as a 'demand' of the fuel protestors:>The government does not have the legal perogative to abolish carbon tax in its entirety.>Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre.>Two weeks ago the Dail approved a temporary cut on excise until the end of May (15c on petrol, 20c on diesel.) The government also increased a rebate for hauliers and transport companies, allowing them to claim 12c back per litre.>After these cuts are factored in, excise on diesel is already at 33c a litre - it cannot, under EU law, go down any further.>Others have suggested cutting VAT - this is permissible but tricky.>EU law again requires VAT on motor fuels to be charged at a country's "standard rate," which is 23% in Ireland.>If you wanted to cut VAT on motor fuels you'd have to cut it on everything. Revenue estimates that a 1% cut would cost €684m in a full year - and that would lower a litre of diesel by only 1.75c.>To cut diesel more meaningfully - let's say 10c a litre? - you'd have to cut VAT from 23% to 17%, which costs the government €4.1bn in a full year.>Costs of that scale would completely empty out the possibility of any tax cuts in the next budget, as there'd be no money left. Spending increases in other public sector areas would also be jeopardised given the government would be sacrificing so much revenue.>This also risks triggering inflation because you'd be cutting prices on other products whose costs have remained steady so far this year.Farmsissies.... our response?
>>532901560Signficantly more goes to farmers, because farming in Ireland is less economically productive than packing shelves in Tesco.Farmers are a bigger drain on the economy than niggers and junkies combined.They're biting the hand that feeds.
>>532901822>Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre.>Per litreWtf
>>532901984But I like your guys butter....
>>532901984At least that problem is actually indigeneous to your island unlike the many many migrants they're trying to dump on you.
>>532901984>Produce food>Produce nothingEasy choice. Turn the nogs & junks into fertSimple as
>>532902087In the US, corn farmers receive an extreme amount of government subsidies. This is why so much food in the US contains high fructose corn syrup. State funded goyslop production.
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>>532901984>Signficantly more goes to farmersand so it fucking should
>>532902087canada banned butter imports so the french dairy mafia can keep control. i long for kerrygold. canadian butter hardly even spreads on my brioche :(
>>532902658>and so it fucking shouldWhy?>>532902751>canada banned butter importsYes, farmers lobby for protectionist policies like this so they don't have to compete. It hurts the consumer.
>>532901303The taxes go to niggers and jeets.
>>532901303Mate, the farmers sell their crops and food for no profit. If there weren't subsidies your food prices would skyrocket.
>>532902885>Why?see >>532902323canadian butter is a punishment, anon
Lol, who cares? It's ireland.
>>532896247Yeah maybe. We need more representation in the Dail for ordinary people. Hauliers, Farmers don't represent the people paying diesel money to drive and work for the companies those cunts in government suck the cocks off. We need total reform the political system but that won't happen since we are governed by kikes in London , EU and US. The entire west is part of the same hegemony.>>532896247You'd rather we added kikes, mutts and Germans to the list in with the Brits on who owns the land of the nation?The farmers are the last Irish people with significant land ownership of Ireland.Kick out the Anglo kikes absentee landlord descendents from the country first and we shall talk.. sick of establishment cocksuckers like you that still suck British establishment cock in Ireland >>532902087Kerrygold tastes like shitty margarine this year
>>532892012We're being Arab Spring-ed. Pic unrelated.
>>532902935>If there weren't subsidies your food prices would skyrocketThe subsidies exist because there's tariffs against foreign food imports. Remove the protectionist shit and food prices would crash.
>>532902885butter from the USA has pus in it you stupid pasta nigger
>>532903058>Kerrygold tastes like shitty margarine this yeardoes it? :( i know they changed lyons im sure everything is a race to the bottom now just like everywhere else
>>532902885Why don't you support Irish farming? Did you support the EU Mercosur deal by any chance?
Why are the Irish so fucking broke and useless? Without being a tax haven and literally getting remmitance payments from America like literal turd worlders do, your economy would be comparable to Moldova.
>>532903327It could have been the season this year. Weather was pretty shit for grass growth, poor quality. That affects the taste of milk and butter significantly along with the feeds cows get.
Just take a train. Just use water buffalo to till your land.
>>532903428>Why are the Irish so fucking broke and useless?Why don't you direct that question to our government you pompous stuck up Danish retard. The ordinary people are blocking oil ports they are so pissed off with it in case you didn't notice.Your country is a kike cock sucking fuck one but I'm not going to assume you support kikes wrecking your working class. Id rather we had very little to do with the EU or America.
>>532903428all your strongest poorest kin ran away from you scandi cunts circa 800 and raped and raped
>>532892012India is running out of gas. Lots of super smart Pajeets are buying it all up to resell at massive profit in a few weeks.
>>532903442i hope so. everytime i go back something new is ruined
>>532892565Based cunts, make the Ireland you deserve.
>>532903705The Irish butter Lidl brand tastes better than Kerrygold right now. Sold in Lidl here. Nearly every large brand whether it's dairy, chocolate etc has become tasteless shit. Cadburys doesn't even taste like and barely qualifies as chocolate now since the fat Americans bought it out.Local produce that's not contaminated by global corp is the best but it will become incredibly expensive going forward unfortunately
>>532903369>Why don't you support Irish farming?Because it's an economic black hole. Also farmers tend to be retarded NIMBYs who block infrastructure projects for "spoiling the view" or some dumb shit. They also often support absolutely moronic shit like leaving the EU.>Did you support the EU Mercosur deal by any chance?Yes, because I have a brain. The tariff reliefs and quotas on Mercosure beef were miniscule and the deals we got for industry and pharmaceuticals were comparitively huge.It's a huge win for European industry in a time where we've become extremely reliant on China and the US.
>>532903933ireland should have been immune to enshittification :(
>>532892012I swear to God all the real Irish immigrated to the US and left behind a bunch of faggots.
>>532904114You are clearly a government shill or establishment cock sucker. Why is this country such a shitehole if we are booming thanks to all that international investment..You cunts are fucked , we need political reform not just in Ireland but across the west. Enough of this fatcat pyramid scheme , British empire style shit, nation for the people the people for the nation.Nobody trusts a cunt in a suit and tie anymore faggot so you better be on your way with the usual shite talk
I've no sympathy for them desu
>>532904114You're a slimy fucking kike. You want us to sacrifice our own food security for your fatcat kike friends. Cunts like you with that mindset sold us out, still sell us out and will continue to sell us out.You sound worse than that green cunt Eamonn Ryan who advised us not to become self sufficient with our own fuels.Fuck off
>>532904679>WHOY OY OUGHTTA BASH YOU FER THAT LAD, WHOY OY OUGHTTA, TIS LIKE ANOTHER POTATUH FAMINELol
>>532893114If I had to compare it to America.Imagine a third party started growing in the US and in response to it, the Democrats and Republicans joined together and formed a Government just to make sure that the third party couldn't do anything. Imagine that third party was also shit.That's what's currently going on in Ireland at the moment: the only two parties that have ever led a government were forced to join together just to get a "functioning" government. No party is getting more than 30% of the vote
>>532904607Even if it was just to spite the Government, that alone would be worth supporting themI've no idea what exactly you're even thinking here
>>532904404>Why is this country such a shitehole if we are booming thanks to all that international investmentChronic underinvestment in infrastructure. The government is incredibly risk-averse and slow rolls everything. Because of this, government building of infrastructure like housing, power generation, and transportation, is always too little too late. So we're constantly falling further and further behind on basic infrastructure.The government also got too addicted to neoliberalism and left our housing supply and power generation up to the market. But the market just seeks to make money, and has failed to alleviate the shortage of housing stock or lower electricity prices. It isn't a tax problem, it's an imbalance of supply and demand.It's the same for most European governments - they're all terrified of big commitments. The result is an extremely weak ability to respond to crises and sudden shocks. We had an oil and gas crisis 4 years ago when the Russians invaded Ukraine. In that time we could have done SIGNIFICANTLY more to increase local power generation through wind farms and reduce our dependency on oil with electric vehicles. But no, we're still very much reliant on foreign oil, because the government didn't do enough.>>532904679>muh food securityBig meme. Only relevant in a global famine or wartime blockade scenario, both of which are extremely unlikely. Currently most subsidies go to beef and dairy farmers, which are extremely inefficient in resource and land use for food production. We could instead subsidise vegetables and grains up to a certain point to keep our food security, and leave the rest to the whims of the market.Less cattle rearing would allow us to reforest and rewild much of the country which would be quite nice.
>>532892565Obviously the majority of the population is okay with this because they keep voting in the people doing it.If you want things to change you have to vote in other people or run for office yourself.
>>532906748the majority of the population everywhere are midwit consumers who go along to get along. they show their true colors once they collectively begin to starve, though, and then they become the most feral unhinged retards imaginable
>>532906693>We could instead subsidise vegetables and grains up to a certain point to keep our food security, and leave the rest to the whims of the market.Neglecting native sources of protein does seem like the sort of thing that some limp wristed leftie would think is a good idea>In that time we could have done SIGNIFICANTLY more to increase local power generation through wind farms and reduce our dependency on oil with electric vehicles.Any sort of green energy project that is still pretending that just wind energy is going to "save" us from the current situation is just plain delusional, even considering the fact that the carbon tax mostly just exists to try to force people to stop using petrolAny environmental solution that doesn't at least consider nuclear is just a bunch of mindless virtue signally
>>532906693>We could instead subsidise vegetables and grains up to a certain point to keep our food securityyoure transparent
>>532906748From the 1990s, right up to the 2010s, the winning party in this country was getting on average 35% of the vote, if not over 40%. This was either FF or FGIn 2016, this had dropped to 25%. In 2020, this had dropped to 22% and forced the two main parties to form a coalition together, which has continued into the next election and in to nowThe people are very obviously signaling that they don't want these parties in charge, but as long as they're willing to form a coalition with each other and the next biggest party (that isn't Sinn Fein), they'll stay in power
>>532906992>Neglecting native sources of protein does seem like the sort of thing that some limp wristed leftie would think is a good ideaYou would only be "forced" to eat it in an extreme catastrophe scenario. You could eat as much cheap Brazilian and Australian beef as you like during normal times. The benefits would be a ton of subsidies money freed up and the potential to reforest the country.>Any environmental solution that doesn't at least consider nuclear is just a bunch of mindless virtue signallyTrue, but we don't necessarily have to build it in Ireland. We have the connection with France coming online. They could supply our base load with their nuclear power and we generate the rest with wind. On particularly windy days we could export the excess electricity to other EU countries.It may be worthwhile to have a native nuclear plant in the future, but relying on French nuclear energy would still be an enormous improvement in energy security in comparison to LNG.
Only if people in the US did the same, but we have too many retards who worship the orange dumbass and bend over for Israel (the land of Remphan).
>>532907872>You could eat as much cheap Brazilian and Australian beef as you like during normal timesI'm not throwing away our native market to rely on foreign produced meat that we have no actual way or measuring the quality of. As usual, it will just end up as a great race to the bottom for terms of quality. >The benefits would be a ton of subsidies money freed up and the potential to reforest the country.Trusting the government to actually do anything is comically naive. We already have a surplus, you know? And look at how terribly they spend itYou're essentially just dancing around the point here that years of a complacent government has led to our island being mismanaged in almost egregious ways while most policies that they're "proud" of will only make our quality of life worse
>>532901822>>Carbon tax is a form of excise, and EU directives require excise on diesel to be a minimum of 33c per litre.Sounds like we should consider leaving the EU, then
>>532892012wtf are they protesting about lol? What ireland supposed to do? They have no power ver fuel sources.
>>532908874We have a large carbon tax which is scheduled to increase every year until 2030. The protestors want this cut substantially
>welfare state keeps raising taxes to try to stay afloatShocking
>>532892012Irish are some of the most retarded fucks I've ever met. Talktalktalk, apoplectics over the slightest issue, keep voting for the same fucking parties election after election. Oh no there's a storm coming -> all bread and milk sold out. Only bread and milk. Can't be out of bread or milk for the duration of the storm. Oh, what's that, fuel is expensive? Well shit let's blockade ports and stop fuel tankers from delivering and simultaneously buy out all the fucking available fuel until the government capitulates and makes the icky stinky market economy that we normally love so much go byebye.
>>532904344The Irish with any fucking shift in their asses or sense in their heads either left already or will leave. All the ambitious young Irish I know have one plan: move to Dublin long enough to save enough money to emigrate. Permanent state of brain drain. The remainder are people utterly lacking options or 98 IQ midwits that will end up slopping at the creamery, or doing day labor or security work in the UK getting beat up by pakis hoping one day to marry some slag and rent an apartment near where they grew up so they can go get pissed at the local pub until it closes because they raised the fucking license fees so high that it's no longer sustainable. And then they can work until they drop and be anally raped by Indians and negroids in a care home until they gracelessly expire. Trad music is pretty sweet tho.
>>532910280Hilarious post to make considering the current ethnic demographics of the USThere are already states where actual Americans are in the minority of child births
Mutts just seething now. Go back and worship your fat orange Jewish pedophile presdient.
I map was right.
>>532910490Go pray to your Jewish god mick
>>532892565You voted for this
>>532894669>Paddies cheat at everything,jew fag
>>532892012>the Irish finally revolt based
>>532910477Thank you for not bothering to try and refute anything I said, as it would have been a fruitless endeavor.America is also doomed, but it has further to fall. Thankfully I will be dead before it hits the pavement and splatters.
>>532911402>America is also doomed, but it has further to fallAre you even 50% white anymore? We all know your government has been fudging the numbers for years now and that those illegals are going to be 90% brown
>>532904344>swear to God all the real Irish immigrated to the US and left behind a bunch of faggots.
>>532901822Just ignore the EU. What are they going to do, send the army?
>>532911557Why would you count immigrants in our demographics? They are going to leave one way or another. It’s so incredibly cucked to use birth rate statistics as if you can’t just kick the kids out lol.
>>532903152What happens if there's a major breakdown of global logistics and you retards are entirely dependent on imported food?
>>532911686>immigrantsAre you confusing this word with tourists? Do you genuinely believe that the unwashed hordes are leaving your country any year soon?>They are going to leave one way or another.No, they aren't, lol. Unless you get a government that prioritizes re-migration for 4-8 years as hard as possible, the US will go through an almost permanent demographic shift
>>532911567I look like this and say this.
>>532911858He is an idiot
>>532910477its all western countries
>>532906748Most people don't vote. The government should remember that
>>532913049We're still 76% White native Irish, which isn't the best, but far better than you or the YanksIf you go look at Central Europe, their demographics are even more pure
>>532913168sure for now, you had a late start though and dublin is unrecognizable from 10 years ago even. sniff your own farts if you want but your future is us (but worse because youre a little island) if you do nothing
>>532913426I'm not saying that we can just ignore it, I'm pointing out that some Yank specifically trying to pretend that we're flooded with foreigners is funny considering the absolute state of his countryWe are whiter than the US was 60 years ago
>>532913577you are flooded with foreigners, though, i was just there in november. the airport looks like canada. youre unrecognizable. even fucking newbridge is teeming full of niggers, anon
>>532892012keith woods just wrote a scathing post about how their demands are untenable, that is that they now demand the irish goverment scrap the carbon tax, but this can't happen if your part of the eu, however if they leave the eu the farmers loose all subsidies. Makes them seem kind of retarded, but at the same time makes keith sound kind of gay.
>>532913895They can scrap the Carbon Tax without issue but not the excises on fuel that are mandated by the EUHowever, Spain just did the latter too and all the EU did was "warn" them about it
>>532892012I hope the Irish that are leading this have taken their cash out of the bank. Also be ready for your government to declare war on you
>>532913895>loosedisqualified
>>532911880> Do you genuinely believe that the unwashed hordes are leaving your country any year soon?lol you talk like they have a choice. Pretty much all immigrants that arrived after 2020 rely on a corporate sponsor or welfare. Welfare is already being cut and corporate sponsors have been laying them off all year. You’re going to have to realize that there is nothing that roots immigrants to your nation besides marriage. It’s really easy to get rid of them.
>>532913577You are absolutely flooded and don’t have the culture to deal with it.
>>532892565Hope the Irish will do the needful
>>532914029EU has no enforcement mechanism besides withholding subsidies. What’s the point of the subsidies if it gets canceled out by a tax?
looking forward to the videos of the transport corp dozing the new scanias into the harbour tomorrow ngl
