I have always been baffled by politics.
Parties draw up manifesto's and when elected renege on so many things they promised, yet quite often the public don't hold them to account for it.
Then when you are in power you can do nothing right - there is always a better way to do it, and the opposition tell you about it daily. But if they were in charge, things would be exactly the same.
I watch how the opposition leaders/politicans get interviewed these days and they are filled with glee as its like taking sweets from a child. The Gov has messed EVERYTHING up.
But do they think if they had been in charge for the last decade that Ireland would have escaped the current WORLD economic crisis? They make out like it would, but that's absolute nonsense.
I remember one politican ripping into Lenihan on a Q&A TV show and he basically said "if you hadn't of let the Irish house prices get so high we wouldn't be in this situation". Lenihan replied with the fact that the world economic crisis wasn't started by Irish house prices. And he is 100% right. We are only a very small player and we were always going to get hit hard no matter how well any Gov had prepared for it.
Parties draw up manifesto's and when elected renege on so many things they promised, yet quite often the public don't hold them to account for it.
Then when you are in power you can do nothing right - there is always a better way to do it, and the opposition tell you about it daily. But if they were in charge, things would be exactly the same.
I watch how the opposition leaders/politicans get interviewed these days and they are filled with glee as its like taking sweets from a child. The Gov has messed EVERYTHING up.
But do they think if they had been in charge for the last decade that Ireland would have escaped the current WORLD economic crisis? They make out like it would, but that's absolute nonsense.
I remember one politican ripping into Lenihan on a Q&A TV show and he basically said "if you hadn't of let the Irish house prices get so high we wouldn't be in this situation". Lenihan replied with the fact that the world economic crisis wasn't started by Irish house prices. And he is 100% right. We are only a very small player and we were always going to get hit hard no matter how well any Gov had prepared for it.