Irish Small and Medium Enterprises (ISME) boss Mark Fielding always seems to get a “free ride” when he’s on Michael Reade’s Loose Talk programme on LMFM Radio. For some strange reason Fielding, invariably, is never allowed to be confronted or directly challenged. Challenge is only allowed, in the form of soundbites via text or phone messages, AFTER he (Fielding) has been allowed 10 or 15 minutes free airtime mouthing a diatribe of abuse at trade unions and lecturing and hectoring, in particular (but not exclusively) civil and public workers.
Perhaps Michael is is prevented by the LMFM bosses from allowing anybody on to the programme who just might have the measure of Fielding and the “baby capitalists” (small business owners) that LMFM depends on for advertising revenue to fund the station’s *impartial” current affairs and political coverage.
Now if I was on the Loose Talk programme with Fielding and having to listen to him telling all and sundry, that because his members (the baby capatilists) want to, or have to, cut their workers’ wages, or the minimum wage, and therefore dole payments, state pensions and civil or public service jobs and wages should be cut, I’d feel obliged to say (to Fielding) the following.
Your members, the small business owners of Ireland (baby capatilists) typically “rape” their very own enterprises i.e. the boss’s holiday villa in Spain (or Portugal) being paid for out of the company “kitty”. Then there’s the boss’s company car coming out of the kitty (and his second “domestic” car) and his wife’s SUV (and the petrol/diesel for them all).
The BIG house that the small business boss lives in, is being paid for out of his “small or medium enterprise’s kitty as well. The boss’s domestic “mobile and landline” phone bill will also come out of the company coffers, as will the mobile of his fellow director (his missus). The boss’s family grocery bill is paid for at the supermarket checkout every week with his “company credit card” and, of course, the overseas business trip (annual family holiday).
I could go on, and on and on, but I won’t. I’ll just ask, is it really any wonder that Fielding’s “baby capatilists” say they can only afford to pay their employees 4/5 euro an hour, and they hate trade unions, trade unionists, civil and public servants oof all grades or, indeed, anybody who exposes or threatens their small or medium ”corporate gravy train”?
Suffice to say I was given “the heads up” on all this by an accountant aquaintance of mine who look s after the books of over a dozen of Fielding’s (ISME) member companies in the south Meath and north Dublin area. My accountant aquaintance IS NOT a socialist but, strangely, he tells me that he gave me ”a high preference vote” at the polls last June.
As for Fielding’s regular “free rides” on the radio, well now you know why Michael Reade would never allow me to go head to head with the ISME mouthpiece on Loose Talk. I’d simply crucify the hypocritic bastard (Fielding, that is) and Michael knows that only too well.
