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[apc2010]

Power cuts, a failed airline, a lack of imagination in our foreign policy, a bloated public sector- we have to wonder what is going on.

The answer is actually quite simple and is staring us in the face: we have a government, and a political system, that is not fit to govern and, for the time being, we have no alternatives.



Let’s take a look at the absurdity of our parliamentary system. In the TRNC we are, at best, a population of 250,000. And yet to support this small ‘borough’ we have 50 members of parliament each drawing a salary of perhaps US$40,000 per annum. Who knows what their indirect costs are…Compare this with the UK which has population of 62 Million and 650 MPs. Thus the TRNC with its limited resources has decided that for every 5,000 or so inhabitants we should have an MP. In contrast the UK has 1 MP per hundred thousand of population…. We could accept such a cost base in the TRNC if real progress had been made with the economy or with our negotiations with the Greek Cypriots. Instead we have to live with the fact that we have become a nation of beggars living on handouts from Turkey, and that our only seriously viable commercial activities are casinos and prostitution – and probably much of the profits from these enterprises are exported out of our country.



Turkey channels between US$400 Million and $900 Million per annum to us, depending on the year – thereby providing a third of the TRNC government’s budget. I ask myself if this is the way that we repay those who came to our rescue in 1974 – by taking money from them? Is this the way we repay the families whose sons died to liberate us? Apparently this has become the way of the TRNC government. But let me say loud and clear, not in my name, and surely not in yours either…

http://www.northcyprusdaily.com/news/Op ... 350922.asp

[Get Real!]

It’s naïve to expect an extraordinary entity to be run and function in an ordinary way!

[bsharpish]

"Power cuts, a failed airline, a lack of imagination in our foreign policy, a bloated public sector- we have to wonder what is going on"

By fulfilling 3 out of 4 (of the above) - Could be anywhere in the EU or at the moment , come to think of it, the world

Certainly fits the profile of all the "PIGS" , UK , TRNC,ROC, USA etc etc

I've got an idea .... lets , with no nationality issues, have a cull of politicians and civil servants........... let the clubbing commence

[Oracle]

Even when they try to reason, the flaws in their 'logic' are superabundant. It's as though they are duty-bound to act stupid.

"A wave of human folly ..."

[Gasman]

I'd have a word with your paper boy apc - that appeared in the summer! You get told off here if you post anything older than 3 days as a rule lol!