The financial straw that broke the electorates’ banks

IT was the final, bitter, whiplash goodbye from the Two Brians.

They would soon turn on each other, but for now they had unfinished business with the most vulnerable in society to occupy their time.

Blind, widowed and disabled pensioners were among those turned over for a few meagre euro, while the minimum wage slaves were shaken-down for the sake of a quid an hour. But we were all in this together, why, ministers would even give-up one of their fleet of private jets — eventually — and in solidarity with the basement wage cut to €7.65 an hour, the Taoiseach would snip his minimum hourly pay to just €102.88.