Real progress and a light at end of the tunnel

Like many people, I remember the events of Nov 2010 all too well. I remember the speculation in the media, the pathetic efforts of ministers to deny the patently obvious, the rapid descent into shambles of a government which had lost control and was rapidly losing any sense of self-respect.

I remember the feeling of national humiliation, the sense that our small but proud country had just lost its right to hold head up high. I felt angry.

Three years later the troika programme is complete. We have done what we needed to do and the chapter is about to close.