We may all be in this together, but there’s no togetherness about it

He regaled me with his miseries for half the journey, did the taxi man.

He was having to work longer and longer hours to achieve the same living. The Regulator was making him install a meter, at enormous cost, that was going to force him to charge customers more for their journeys. That, in turn, would cause many customers to take the bus instead. Which would make worse the situation caused by those Progressive Democrats who put any eejit who wanted to drive a taxi on the road, including Michael O’Leary, who’s not an eejit, but what kind of de-regulation lets a guy like him drive a taxi just to get into the bus lane? Thanks to that Mary Harney and her PDs, Dublin has more taxis at the moment than does Melbourne. So it does.

“At least they’re wound up, now, the PDs,” he added. “Pity the media wouldn’t wind up, too. Particularly George Glee. Not jokin’ you, I’ve given up listening to the radio. It’s all moaning from morning to night. This recession is just a short term thing. It’d be over already if George Glee and his pals weren’t making money out of it. That’s the real cause. Once they get shut up, wait’n you see, everything’ll snap back and we won’t have any more moaning.”