the ever-increasing ridicule of our opposition party

[waider]

The leader of the opposition party, in a clip from today's Dáil session, riffed off Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch while attempting to make some sort of misguided point about a website project which was cancelled on account of either cost overruns or expected excessive cost. Not only was this ridiculous, he is weakening the argument against the Government over continuing to fund excessively costly projects. Which, er. Pick one side of this argument, you can't have both. Well, you can, but you're not going to get into power on the strength of it YOU MORON.

Comments

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

You think your country has a pathetic opposition party... I wish my country had an opposition party.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I dunno. At least you're in no doubt about the fact. People are occasionally lulled into thinking we actually have an opposition here.

We don't have a pathetic opposition party

[mopti.livejournal.com]

We have one and three half opposition parties, and only oneof the half parties could not be described as pathetic.

Re: We don't have a pathetic opposition party

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

I realize this seems like you have nothing but crap. From where I sit, it looks like a cornucopia of possibilities. I have a ruling party, divided between two factions— one is verging on open fascism, and the other is unraveling in the macropolitical equivalent of a battered spouse nervous breakdown. Instead of an opposition party, I am presented with no less than six different schools of monster raving looneyism— not a single one of which could be said with a straight face to be posing as if it could one day become something like a political party.

Not saying you don't have a right to complain about your politicians. I'm just saying I wish I had your problems instead of mine.

And here's a link

[mopti.livejournal.com]

http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20051011.xml&Node=H7&Page=6

Re: And here's a link

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Oh. I see the problem.

The Tánaiste: The technology may not have been compatible with what was intended. It was originally scoped by Accenture. Incredible as it may seem, surveys in the United States show that only 28% of the technology scoped for works on the first occasion.

You hired Accenture to scope the work.

That rates up there with three other classic blunders of all time: 1) Never invade Mesopotamia without a clear and realistic plan for getting out in a timely manner; 2) Never deregulate your state regulated energy utility companies without insuring you have a transparent public market for energy generation and transmission; and finally 3) Never engage in a battle of wills with an egotistical Texan when Iocaine powder may be a factor.

Re: And here's a link

[merde.livejournal.com]

do NOT talk to me about Accenture. one of the things that sent Docent down the tubes and led to my being laid off from the best job i ever had was that Accenture's "specs" were so sketchy and unworkable that we had to fire them and re-do the whole thing from the beginning.

from what i saw, it looked like they just plain hadn't bothered to do the work. i actually received a "spec" i was meant to work from that consisted of one halfassed mocked-up screenshot and a sentence explaining what the product was intended to do.

Re: And here's a link

[waider.livejournal.com]

Oop, that gold star was for mopti... Accenture were working on another Irish gov't project not long ago. Ok, long ago. I don't know how long ago. Apparently the project would get to 75% complete, by which time everyone on the team was pissed off with working for Accenture or for the Government or both, and they all left, and were replaced with entirely new staff, who decided to pretty much do everything over from scratch.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I believe there is some accountability gone missing here.

Re: And here's a link

[waider.livejournal.com]

A gold star for you!

(I could and should have dug that up myself)