{"id":2152,"date":"2011-01-24T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/joe-higgins-mep-calls-on-finance-bill-to-be-postponed-until-after-general-election\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T10:11:09","slug":"joe-higgins-mep-calls-on-finance-bill-to-be-postponed-until-after-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/joe-higgins-mep-calls-on-finance-bill-to-be-postponed-until-after-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Higgins MEP calls on Finance Bill to be postponed until after General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>Press Statement \u00a0 23\/1\/2011 <\/p>\n<p \/> Finance Bill Must Be Postponed Until After Election <\/p>\n<p \/> *Should be unthinkable that a discredited Government with no mandate <br \/>could push draconian Finance Bill through Dail; <\/p>\n<p \/> *Fine Gael and Labour Party facilitation of fast tracking Finance Bill <br \/>utterly cynical and opportunistic: <br \/>Joe Higgins MEP \/\u00a0The Socialist Party <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;The Finance Bill contains the savage provisions of the IMF\/EU deal by <br \/>which the economic lifeblood of the Irish people is to be poured into <br \/>a rescue of European banks as a result of massive attacks on living <br \/>standards and public services.\u00a0It should be unthinkable that the <br \/>Fianna Fail\/Green Party Government which has not a shred of legitimacy <br \/>or credibility should be allowed to push this legislation through. <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;The readiness of the Labour Party and Fine Gael to facilitate the <br \/>fast tracking of this Bill is utterly cynical and opportunistic. It <br \/>betrays the reality that these parties have no alternative to the <br \/>IMF\/EU cuts. However, they wish the remnants of the current government <br \/>to push it though so that they can then blame them for its horrendous <br \/>consequences on the lives of ordinary people. <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;The contents of the Finance Bill should be the main issue at the <br \/>heart of the debate during the General Election campaign. In this way <br \/>all political parties would be forced to lay out their proposals in a <br \/>way that was clearly seen by the voters.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p \/> ENDS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Statement \u00a0 23\/1\/2011 Finance Bill Must Be Postponed Until After Election *Should be unthinkable that a discredited Government with no mandate could push draconian Finance Bill through Dail; *Fine Gael and Labour Party facilitation of fast tracking Finance Bill utterly cynical and opportunistic: Joe Higgins MEP \/\u00a0The Socialist Party &#8220;The Finance Bill contains the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/joe-higgins-mep-calls-on-finance-bill-to-be-postponed-until-after-general-election\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joe Higgins MEP calls on Finance Bill to be postponed until after General Election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}