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The Daily PollREMEMBER THE LAST government’s plan for a broadcast charge to replace the existing TV licence?
Former communications minister Pat Rabbitte made a clear commitment to bring in the €160 charge – which was intended to cover people who watch TV content on laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Denis Naughten, the new communications minister, confirmed in the Dáil this week that he had “no plans to replace the current television licence fee with an alternative funding mechanism” – adding that he would be looking at ways to crack down on evasion.
This morning we’re asking: Do you think the licence should be replaced with a new charge?
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Gutless
@trebloc01: in an ironic way almost brave of him to stick to his established thinking in spite of how base it may be. Literally sticking to his guns.
@trebloc01: Some observers are stating that it’s starting to look like the Saudis wouldn’t have murdered this man if they couldn’t get away with it. Seems that America is nothing more than the Saudi’s b!7ch!
@trebloc01: unbelievable. Thought the sc@m would invent a better story than that.
@Dubs fan: Seems like Putin is not the only one with a lurid tape of tiny.
@neilo: misses my point
@filthypete: he relies on the hard of thinking. Democracy is not capitalism. He wants to make U.S. a capitalist autocracy, that’s obvious by his words and deeds. If anything goes everything will go drumpf.
Well that just shows how flawed his thinking is, Cash makes you innocent in his word.
@Genius 80s+:
List of EU countries who sell arms to Saudi Arabia
Spain
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Belgium
Sweden
Croatia
Italy
Germany
France
United Kingdom
https://www.euronews.com/2017/11/30/which-eu-countries-sell-arms-to-saudi-arabia-
@JimmyMc: what’s your point?
@JimmyMc: The UK sells more arms to Saudi Arabia than the rest of the EU put together….
@JimmyMc: Thanks for Showing how bad it is. Sweden had a rule to not sell weapons to countries in war. Obviously rubbish for the superrich countries. And it may be the “Kingdom of Saudi”, but it is much more a brutal dictatorship. That we deal with them at all is due to that money rules and the poorer we get the sharper that sword rules. Saudi alleged support of ISIS and training of radical IMAMS in Medina speeds up migration and EU crime rates which make EU countries poorer much faster than now with near zero taxrates for all large enough multinationals.
All will be forgiven and apologies will be delivered by those accountable.The contracts between both countries will continue(approx over 400 billion between arms and oil)and the world will continue come next Monday.Saudi Arabia will continue to cause havoc,murder and starvation towards Yemen and there won’t be an eye batted.It puts it all in perspective really.
Trump would say anything is credible when he’s making money off of something.
@ianglen: And so would his family https://youtu.be/1OYvuKC6-WQ
@ianglen: Trump is what ya end up with when ya give a stack of money to a fool.
Hmmmm..have you noticed how the Trump fans have been extremely quiet on this ? ‘Trump is different,blah,blah,blah’
You would also think that they would be standing up for a Muslim that wanted to educate and advocate for tolerance, freedom and equality \O/
No world leaders have the guts to call them out for lying about it for a week then?
@Ian McNally: Definitely not Leo or Simon Coveney. They didn’t even wait a week to expel the Russians. In this case they say they need to wait and see. Who brings a bone saw to a fight?
@Cal Mooney: Well, just in case Jamal managed to fight off the other 17 guys, then you’re going to be happy to have any sort of weapon, right?
So where’s the body
@John Carey:
They had to cut its fingers off so it would fit in the boot of the car…
@John Carey: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Gods knows where else as he was chopped up?
If this had been Iran say ?
@Declan B: The US and england would have bombed the Iranian capital within 24 hours. NATO has become more evi snd killed more peoplel than the Nazis at this stage.
@Cal Mooney:
And yet Russia’s former soviet neighbours still see your beloved Russia as the greatest threat to them – go figure…
This is where Hillary went wrong – she should have claimed Benghazi was just an unfortunate workplace accident.
These are the types of people we allow police the world. EU needs an army, america and its criminal allies can’t be trusted. So much for maga.
@Steven Fitzpatrick: the EU needs an army because Saudi Arabia murdered a journalist and the US refuses to stop selling it weapons? Do explain.
@Steven Fitzpatrick: Will Germany
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/20/europe/germany-sells-arms-to-saudi-intl/index.html
and France
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-france/pressure-mounts-on-macron-over-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-uae-idUSKBN1GY24I
still be allowed sell billions worth of weapons to the Saudis?
@Steven Fitzpatrick: and you think the same crooks pulling the strings behind the US aren’t also behind the EU? How cute
Return the body for burial, or what’s left of it.
The reporter was having coffee in the embassy and one of the staff opened the press and a bag of marshmallows fell out and crushed the reporter to death, and while carrying him out of the room the man fell through the large human size office shredder…
all very unfortunate…….
If he died by accident where’s his body….fully intact?
Trump deny deny deny….May silent silent silent…after selling billions of dollars to them… Yemenis are dying..wonder if this was Iran or Russia
Trump. he was murdered accidentally on purpose.
He looks like a real fist fighter
@Kane Developments: and he should have done ok against 15 and a saw.
So he just happened to get in a fatal fist fight with 17 trained interrogators on bring your bone saw to work day..Seems legit…
Nothing Trump says is credible, neither is this statement or was it a tweet.
Saudi Arabia is like the good but vicious guard dog, but then it bites an innocent pedestrian and it needs to be put down
Seems credible to me. Trump 2020. Keep America great.
@Mark Jones: America used to be the world’s superpower. Now they’re just coming across as the Saudi’s lapdog. How the mighty have fallen. But you just keep shouting MAGA and the idiots will follow.
@Mark Jones: bot
Trump would sell his soul to the highest bidder;anything for a fast buck.
Pussyfooting perfection
The western media and political class will swallow whatever crock of crap the Saudis release as the final version of what happened because Pompeo flew to Riyadh earlier in the week to talk through with the Saudis what the plausible deniability was to be..this then was to be drip fed to same media and politicians over the days and weeks that followed, regardless of whether trump was president or obama or clinton it would be the same, the reaction from the US and EU will be a mixture of bullcrap and silence..both silence and bullcrap betoken consent.
Come back John Wayne
Bought and paid for. Just a stooge.
Brings to mind a abba song money money money
Well, he would, wouldnt he?
Something that was omitted from this particular article, but has been mentioned in others that I’ve read is that if Saudi feel they are being harshly punished, all they would need to do is stop using the petrodollar for trading their oil which would on top of China and Russia selling their US Bonds would tank the US economy. It’s not an easy call to make.
@Shane Dignam: And the Saudis know it .
@Terry Cahill: and everyone here knows it too, but it’s just not cool to admit it.
Does Trump think people are idiots or is it just that he is the idiot.
@KJ:
The Dunning-Kruger effect – he has an inflated opinion of his own intellect because he’s basically too stupid to realise otherwise.
@KJ: all of the above!
@KJ: both I think! Strange how it is both surprising and unsurprising too that he says up front that the money is the most important thing here. Justice, morals, doing the right thing way down the list.
@KJ: Trump knows his supporters are idiots, who believe anything they read online.
@KJ: He has been bigly successful at exploiting the stupidity of his “base”. As long as he flatters their prejudices, he knows thet will tolerate obvious lies.
@KJ: both
@KJ: He doesn’t care. But people are idiots to let him away with it yet again.
As Trump will say, Oil believe the Medieval Saudi s
The trouble is Trump insults what ever is left of the American intelligence but nobody takes offence and when he tries the same internationally he is shocked at the response.
Trump says story is credible more like INCREDIBLE.
Trump is full of it. Credible? Who he trying to kid!
The greater truth Trump won’t speak about: https://goo.gl/ocLM68
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