Government will get to grips with financial crisis? Don’t bank on it

WE need to be taken by the scruff of the neck. We need somebody telling us, in calm and measured terms, and in simple English, what needs to be done. And first of all, we need to be told what the hell is going on. Truthfully, clearly, simply.

Because, by God, I’m confused. And I’m not alone. One of the reasons confidence in the Government is melting like snow is because people can’t get any sense that the people we’ve elected to manage our affairs have the faintest clue themselves not only about what to do, but even about what’s happening.

So they’re reacting on a day-to-day basis without any sense of plan or vision about how to really resolve the situation.