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A BIZARRE SERIES of exchanges took place last night on Twitter between Dublin Labour councillor Dermot Lacey and British politician George Galloway, with the latter calling Lacey “a pig at the trough” and “a prick”.
The British politician, who has served as an MP, ran a recent unsuccessful campaign to be the Mayor of London and appeared on Big Brother in the past, took exception to Lacey’s high salary and the conduct of his party.
The exchange persisted into the early hours of the morning.
The row started off in a fairly innocuous way when one Twitter user criticised the Labour councillor Lacey for having too high a salary.
That’s when Galloway got involved. He said that the “party of Connolly should be in disgrace in 2016 is a morality tale all right” and asked if he could get “all Ireland laughing” at Lacey.
When Galloway accused the government of being a “shame on the people” and of “a betrayal of the sacrifice of the martyrs”, Lacey said: “that’s all we need… that buffoon lecturing us”.
Galloway then said: “Ahhh… a pig at the trough while the poor queue. When is this prick up for re-election?”
Lacey responded by saying: “happy 2 to face electorate again George Y don’t U come over… your ignorance would be nice to test.”
It went downhill from there.
Galloway: “It’s a date. Count on it. Should’ve stuck to stuffing your face Mr.”
Lacey: “Try a mirror… might cracking mind you.”
Galloway: “Have you been drinking? And was it at the public’s expense?”
Lacey: “Coming from someone who has leeched on the public for years… you should know.”
Galloway: “I’m teetotal Dermo; public never bought me a drink in my life. My personal expenses were 0. You?”
Lacey: “Maybe that’s why you are such an idiot. Go calm yourself down with a coffee.”
The Dublin councillor added that he wouldn’t “take any lectures from such wasters”.
Lacey has been a member of the City Council since 1993, and a Labour party member since 1977. He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin between July 2002 and July 2003, and is presently a member of the City of Dublin Youth Service Board.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Lacey said that this was the first time he’d ever had any form of contact with Galloway (“thank god”) and added that he was an “extraordinary, ignorant man”.
You can view the exchanges here and here.
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Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo f****** hoo, so now there average 70,000 per annum wage might be under threat.. Welcome to the real Irish world.
The ESB will stay under state control. This union move is just to get another 10k a year for employees…
Are the ESB workers afraid of efficient working practices? Or of ESB being a competitive company?
Who’d willingly jump off the gravy train
We all know the ESB lads have it handy , new owner means they might have to go and do a bit of work for a change ……. “start the strikes early and get all we can out of the government before they sell ” …………………… all state and semi state bodies are being breastfed by the government —- time for a change in our staple services .
hahaha ESB workers…bye bye to your 4 foreign holidays a year and 70/80.000 salary!!
Well done Gavin Sheridan of TheStory.ie. NAMA will have to crawl further under the rock of secrecy.
Norris has some determination!
Others might call it neck.
Privatisation does not equate with efficiency. It equates with theft, low wages and shit working conditions. Private sector efficiency is bullshit. If there is efficiency it is efficient direction of capital and money to a small cabal of greedy bastards. This is achieved by job losses and effective dismantling of customer service. Wake up you neoliberal automatons they will soon be fucking with your futures too.
I wouldn’t call it neo-liberal to suggest that public-sector spending should have efficient direction of capital. Especially if that capital is paid through our taxes.
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