We’re being robbed blind by the very people we put in charge

YOU may remember that when the Minister for Finance announced in the Estimates that the grant for first-time house buyers was going to be abolished, a group of Fianna Fáil backbenchers were muttering about a revolt.

At a parliamentary party meeting they were reputed to have berated Charlie McCreevy and the Taoiseach, for that matter over taking away the €3,800 grant, before they marched into the Dáil and voted for the measure.

That's what good soldiers of destiny do exactly as they're told.