Reader's Blog: Economic policy killing rural Ireland

All the international research tells us that the social world order is rapidly changing under our noses from a social welfare state to a social investment state. 

This change is underpinned by a new way of looking at the state and the role of government in our lives. There are only a small number of key principles that underpin this new way of doing politics and the economy and once grasped they can be clearly seen and heard on Irish radio and television debates.

The first key principle is that everything is viewed from the position of the “competitive individual” and no matter what you are talking about, be it health, education, etc, it is only the individual that can be considered.