Ordinary people need to rival big business in fight for change

A REPORT launched by Friends of the Earth shows how important it is that ordinary consumers and voters stay in touch with what is being planned for them.

Ordinary people need to rival big business in fight for change

Irish people tend to be blasé about such things, content to argue they have no power over what is being done in their name. The budget cuts show just how passive we are with none of the big uprisings seen in other countries in response to such policies.

Other surveys show how bad we are at complaining over poor service or shoddy goods, preferring to appear nice rather than risk a row by insisting on our rights.

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