Lise Hand: Our uprising brought down FF with Pencil Revolution
By Lise Hand, Irish Independent
Monday February 28 2011
On RTE, John Bowman concluded, ‘Long may we choose power in Ireland with a ballot paper in one hand and a pencil in the other’
THEY left their houses in their hundreds of thousands, in the sun and in the rain. They travelled from the Inishowen peninsula, the Wicklow hills; they journeyed along winding roads in Skibbereen, Emyvale, Ballyheigue, Banagher, and down the broad streets of Cork city and the narrow ones of Wexford town. They made their way through the capital’s sprawling suburbs from Rathfarnham to Dun Laoghaire to Drumcondra and Ballyfermot.
They poured into 6,000 polling stations across the country, simmering and seething, racked with rage, gripped by heartache and hellbent on revenge.
They’d waited months and months for this day as they watched shops in their towns and villages boarded up, dole queues lengthen and their children leave.
They’d bided their time after Anglo imploded and took the economy with it, and when the men from the IMF took away our sovereignty one snowy winter’s night.
They didn’t light fires or storm parliament or do bloody battle on the streets.
Instead, armed with that humble little weapon so sneeringly dismissed by a former Taoiseach as “our stupid oul’ pencils”, they rained down vengeance on the Government.
With over 2.2 million strokes and ticks and marks they struck down the mighty party of power, stabbing into its heart over and over to ensure it didn’t rise again. As the tempests of change howl and swirl across the Middle East, we too held our own uprising on Friday, February 25, when we unleashed our Pencil Revolution.
And what a dramatic, heart-stopping new picture all those pencils have created, redrawing the map of Irish politics, perhaps forever.
Read more at: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/elections/comment-analysis/lise-hand-our-uprising-brought-down-ff-with-pencil-revolution-2559045.html
Good on Ireland. Now for the real solution. Leave the EU. print your own money, dont’t pay the interst nor the capital back to the criminal banksters, ever.The money has been stolen from the middle classes and the poor at any rate.
Yea and this real solution we should all follow. Not only Ireland. It is all stolen money they try to whitewash making us believe we owe them. Its a hoax.
First they steal from us and after this having the nerve to make us pay for that and THEIR crime. How stupid do they really think people are? There must be limits. Wake up!