Time to put an end to auction politics and empty poll promises

Earlier this week, the highly experienced political strategist and pundit Fergus Finlay wrote that he was “absolutely convinced that the issue of accountability, and how its absence runs the risk of corrupting our State, should be a central issue in the general election campaign”.

Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be room in the ‘fiscal space’ debate to allow the issue even to be discussed.

It’s the same absence of accountability and lack of responsibility that is driving our politicians, almost to a man and a woman.