I have no idea who is on tonight - so it'll be a treat or....
On Black Monday will we have Willie O'Dea doing his accountancy bit?
Joan Burton - Red Jacket Alert, finance spokesperson for Labour, Peter Power - fresh from launch I was at tonight. David McWilliams, Noel Whelan, ex FF youth officer and barrister and Irish Times columnist/political strategist, Alan 'Tallaght Strategy' Dukes
First Question - was the govt right to bet the country on the banks.
Noel says yes - now look at all other countries following us. Not over yet.
Joan has had the customary Q&A hairdo beloved by women panelists! Lovely job!
Here comes David!
Noel Whelan! How is he allowed flip from 'independent commentator' to government spokesman and then back again? Do we all get flashed by a Men In Black style memory eraser?
David has spent 7 years making money and thenmanaging Money in central bank as a boy! Even longer telling us things with made up names. So he knows his stuff.
David and Bill Cullen have something in common - tales from their youth to flower out the points they are making!
Alan in a suit jacket - much prefer the other stuff he wears when on Vincent Brown - soft suedey brown leather jackets etc.
He wears lovely hats from time to time also - not on the telly - spotted him in Heuston etc.
I can't wait to hear what ASBO Power TD has to say. When not pronouncing on High Finance his website says he has been welcoming a Limerick East Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis motion for national bin waiver scheme. Top flight.
Alan says that banks will fall anyway. And they deserve to.
Alan Dukes has aged very well; very few people could lead a party, fade into semi-obscurity, and still be such a leading force within his own party and even within the entire Dáil.
Ah last Monday night when Nell was looking into her crystal ball!
Dukes lost his seat. Though being smoked is a recognised method of preserving.
Peter backs the two Brians - and accuses Labour of being bottlers.
Voting against the majority notorious act of cowardice.
How can the consumer/taxpayer be protected now banks are guaranteed Question 2. Peter still wants to answer 1 though - That'll soon be known as a Palinism. John decides to still take audience on question 1. Poor 2nd Questioner is being ignored!!
To be fair, question only just has any meaning.
Lovely tash in a suit praising govt - audience getting older each week by the way!
Audience in studio are chosen by drafting in, by force, the grand parents of the Tubridy audience.
David thinks we need Gurriers! They are a shower of them in banking anyway - quelle ce change...
He's thinking up chapters titles for his new book - Elliot Ness and the Untouchables...
It will be called When The Banks Broke.
I now have a pension fund as of 3pm today. My ears should prick up as Alan mentions pensionfunds.
Joan mentions CAB - she thinks we need a CAB for banks. Next thing Peter will be talking about banking ASBO's!
Noel Whelan wants us to know that banks will be charged. The row needs to be about what the charge is going to be.
McWilliams has had a hair cut and put on black suit and narrow tie to mark the new era of austerity.
Peter Power says that he stands by the government's decision, even if he can't tell us why it was the right one.
Sorry, this is grotesque. The state desperately needs a full and frank explanation and discussion of the decision to underwrite the entire private banking system. And instead they've sent out this cypher to parrot gibberish.
Where is the Cabinet Minister? And why are FF playing negative on this? (No need to answer that!)
Voting against the Government treason now. All will die. Tumbrils next.
Alan Dukes has decided to crush free enterprise in the financial system.
David`s idea of Muscular Regulator and Central Bank does not turn me on ... but then...
Quick, where's the way to roll my eyes in text form? We've gone to the audience who are praising the government's courage and attacking the Regulator. Said Regulator appointed by government and implementing their policies.
UCD student only delighted, delighted! to have his empty words on the telly.
FF member attacks Joan Burton.
Look at that man`s hair - it's from a 1970's hairspray ad!
Peter Power, alone, would like to say that stakeholding is better than shareholding.
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