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A few of the regulars over at The Property Pin have put together a template for people to use to complain to the EU authorities about Fianna Fáil’s latest stroke – their builder bailout that stands to cost the Irish taxpayer billions of euros whilst putting anyone foolish enough to go for one of their falsely titled Home Choice Loans (not much choice considering you can only buy a new build house with one) in negative equity.

See here for the details. The more people that complain, the better.
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This was posted on youtube way back in June after the Lisbon Treaty referendum and is even more relevant now, given the events of the past week.

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if you were expecting quality content here, you were sorely mistaken – ho ho ho!

All this evening’s radio news shows and the RTE Six-one news are talking about how one of the Fianna Fail backbenchers has quit the party over the over 70’s medical card fiasco. Now a few other TDs are sticking their oar in and the greens are making noises about putting an ultimatum to their coalition “partners”, i.e. reverse the decision on the medical cards or they walk.

I would love to see the current shower in government take a fall, but there’s a small part of me that would also be sad to see it, because whoever takes over from them is going to inherit their shitstorm. It would be nice to see them take some punishment for their utter mismanagement of the country.

More details.

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Brian Lenihan just delivered his Budget 2009 speech. One again, Ireland’s motorists get screwed. He’s added 8 cents per litre on to petrol, and has increased the VAT rate by 0.5%, which brings our fuel prices roughly into parity with UK prices. He’s also hiking motor tax by 4% for all cars below 2.5 litres or in CO2 bands A-D, depending on which idiotic system your car falls into. Cars with bigger engines will be hit with an extra 5%, because as we all know, big engines are the work of the devil. Tax on diesel fuel has stayed where it is, most likely because they’re trying to shove everyone over to diesel just to try and minimise their already massive Kyoto CO2 bill. Since the other pollutants in diesel aren’t counted for that, they don’t care about them.

Oh, there’s also this: “Levy of €200 on employees for car parking in major urban areas” – because our public transport system is so fucking awesome.

Pretty much the only good thing about motoring in Ireland was our relatively cheap (by EU standards) fuel, and now they’ve crushed that. We’ve got awful roads and punitive taxes on everything to do with driving.

Here’s a quick run-down of what other changes they’re making.
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This is quite possibly the most awesome blog post of all time.
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