May, Foster, Johnson and Trump — you couldn’t make this stuff up

Our next-door neighbour is in the biggest mess it has been in peacetime... Fergus Finlay says you couldn’t make it up.

WHO’D be a pundit these days? Even if you had a crystal ball, or all the talents of the three witches in Macbeth, you couldn’t possibly have a clue what’s going to happen next. And you certainly can’t attempt to predict the future on the basis of past performance.

On Sunday on the radio I was invited by Ivan Yates to speculate on what’s going to happen next when it comes to Britain and Northern Ireland and Brexit, and then on what kind of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is going to be. I failed to measure up, because I’ve come to the view that it’s now pretty well impossible to predict the next turn in the political road. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, let alone in a year from now.