Leaders forget what matters

HEALTH and crime, those two old political staples, dominated the political agenda this week, wrapped of course in the standard gobbledygook that passes for political discourse.

On the A&E front, we quickly found ourselves with “a dedicated taskforce”, while the senseless murder of Donna Cleary was branded “a new low” and “a watershed”.

Such responses are as meaningless as they are hollow and they belittle the politicians who utter them.