Buck needs to stop at the top, not the taxpayer

There is an old adage that says that “all political careers end in failure”.

The truth of that adage must be in what you consider failure. Take Brian Cowen, our erstwhile former taoiseach and indeed take his predecessor, Bertie Ahern. Bertie jumped before he was pushed. Unfortunately for Brian, he was well and truly pushed.

Yes, they both made an absolute mess of the economy, one worse than the other. They were majorly responsible for the severity of the recession and the impact on this economy, even if not for the recession itself which, given the excesses of the financial services sector worldwide, nobody could have stopped.