Sinn Fein cuts for pensioners

Tuesday June 22, 2010 23:26

by Down Socialist

Mitchel McLaughlin, Sinn Fein MLA speaks on radio of the need for cuts in public services in Northern Ireland

On Tuesday 22 June 2010 Mitchel McLaughlin, Sinn Fein MLA was interviewed on BBC Radio Ulster on the Nolan Show. In the interview which was dealing with how to implement cuts etc, or "savings" as they like to call them now, Mitchel McLaughlin spoke openly about the need for cuts in Northern Ireland's public services.
He said that he supported the scrapping of free prescriptions for pensioners and free travel and that these services should only be provided on the basis of a means test.
He also spoke about how Northern Ireland's public services cost more per capita than the rest of the UK and that there was a need for greater efficiencies to bring down costs etc. He spoke like and used the language of New Labour, the Tories and Fianna Fail.
You can listened to the show on BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cpsh
The interview with Mitchel McLaughlin begins 45 minutes into the programme and you can easily scroll ahead to this section.

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Disbelief

by Roisin Breen

Wed Jun 23, 2010 13:31

I listened to the recording with disbelief. Sinn Fein speakers were at the right to work protests attacking the government for doing exactly what they are doing to people in the north. Disgraceful.

disbelief

by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite party

Wed Jun 23, 2010 15:17

No major surprise.Fianna Fail and Fine Gael yar sprang from the same nationalist womb.Sinn Fein, Ourselves Alone, think about it for a minute. Plural solitude. As oxymoronic as National Socialism, Roman Catholicism or British Intelligence. Once ya have them hypnotised with a sharp buzzphrase you can set the chameleon in motion. Thats the trouble with unchewed and undigested ideology. The logical opposition is to set up Muid Go Leir. That was the logic of the original Sinn Fein before the usual gombeen shoneens climbed into the wheelhouse. Again, read Brinsley Macnamara's Clanking of Chains for an account of the early days and the raw material of 'human' nature. As hamlet said," get thee to a dictionary".

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