Irish Media: Stupidity or Duplicity?

Tesco-heiress Dame Shirley Porter -
Magaret Tatcher's favourite Criminal
Look at the linked headline below . . .

Tesco to create 220 jobs in Drogheda

Tesco will create 220 new jobs in Drogheda today with the opening of a new store in the town.

The supermarket chain said shoppers will also be able to chose products from six local suppliers whose foods will be highlighted on shelves by the Louth County colours.

Located in the Rathmullan Business Centre, just off the M1 motorway, the new store is Tesco Ireland’s 15th new premises opened this year.

It will be the second shop in Drogheda and fourth in Co Louth where 460 people are employed by the chain.

Local TD and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said the new jobs were a major boost to the economy of the area.

“This is Tesco’s fourth store alone in Louth and they are to be commended for their commitment to their store opening programme and to job creation,” he added.

Tesco Ireland employs some 13,500 people.

while it is true that 220 jobs will be 'created' in a new Tesco store - it is NOT true that 220 jobs will in truth have been created.

Tesco offers a localised SERVICE. It does not manufacture anything. It certainly exports nothing except the massive profits it makes (off to Shirl, ex-Dame of the Realm, currently a fugitive from British Justice holed up in a comfy lair in Israel.)

Due to the nature of it's business and the business model itself, Tesco's new store will siphon jobs out of the local economy over a fairly short a period of time.

Ergo,in reality it is totally incorrect to say that any new jobs will be created by this new store, and indeed it is more than likely this store will have an negative impact on job figures in the area overall, as small locally-owned stores shut up shop, unable to compete with the purchasing power of the supermarket giant.

Media whores gotta earn a crust though . . .

Chief Rat says: 'I'm staying' as all other Rats beat a hasty retreat

PD's pretend they have options other than Harney

Mary Harney is to remain on as leader of the Progressive Democrats.

The Minister for Health has been acting leader since former Tánaiste Michael McDowell lost his seat in the General Election, and resigned from politics.

She said this was only a temporary measure as she did not want the job permanently, but at a PD parliamentary party meeting last night, she agreed to formally take over the position.

It now seems that the leadership contest planned for the Autumn will not take place.

Harney's reluctance is understandable now that people are beginning to wise up to the real nature of the PD"s Raison d'être. Not long ago, eyebrows were raised when Ex-Junior Minister of State, Tom Parlon (booted out of office by the Laois-Offaly voters, despite his christening of the area as 'Parlon Country') decided to accept a job with the Builders pressure/lobby-group, The Construction Industry Federation.

As part of his role in the last government, the former Laois-Offaly TD oversaw the Office of Public Works, which gives out lucrative contracts to construction firms.

Why this should come as a surprise to anyone totally astounds me:

In the free-market world of job employment, business ethics has become a privatised matter. By this material standard, Mr Parlon, who was reportedly head-hunted by the captains of brick and mortar, has followed this principle of mammon.

Ah, the principle of mammon, a phrase I think PD members and politicos have tattooed on the inside of their eyelids to constantly remind them of which God they serve.

Throughout their brief history the PD's have been at pains to remind us at every opportunity that they are in favour of private enterprise because it offers best value-for-money, so it is interesting that Parlon's first task in his new €250,000-a-year-post will be to attack the Gov'ts plans for obtaining value-for-money from the members of Construction Industry Federation (CIF):

The country's biggest builders' lobby group is confident that former Minister of State Tom Parlon will head up a legal challenge to a Government policy he once supported.

The 53-year-old, who has taken up a €250,000-a-year-post as head of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF), will oversee its legal action against the new system of awarding fixed price state contracts.

A spokesman for the CIF confirmed that he would be responsible for following through the decision to challenge the move in the European Court of Justice.

"I'm sure Tom, given his background, will be a more than capable leader," its head of public affairs Martin Whelan said.

Last February, the government introduced the fixed price contracts for public building contracts in a bid to halt massive cost over-runs in such developments.


Mr Parlon, who was then Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), described them as a "key reform" and said they would lead to "greater price certainty".

Hypocrisy, thy name is Progressive Democrat Tom Parlon

PS:
While searching for images to use in this post, I found this:



which gave me a good laugh