JFK had 1,000 days of Camelot ... we have Slumpalot

WHILE JFK’s 1,000 days in office were dubbed Camelot, the Fianna Fáil/Green coalition’s 1,000 days in power could be more aptly summed-up as Slumpalot.

The usual pall of gloom hung over the strange political bedfellows yesterday as they did there best to ignore the landmark anniversary of their roller-coaster relationship, both keenly aware things can’t go on like this for much longer.

And as Labour leader Eamon Gilmore was on hand to point out that 270 people had lost their jobs for every day the coalition had been in office – a legacy of 270,000 extra people swelling the dole queues to some 430,000 – there really was not that much to celebrate. But then suddenly, the Greens wanted to party like there was no tomorrow – perhaps because, for their party, there really is no tomorrow.