Politicians failed to read the log-off signals from Dell

IT was mildly amusing to hear a Dell spokesman maintain that the 1,900 job losses were only decided on last weekend. I guess he would say that, wouldn’t he?

It was less amusing to hear our politicians expressing surprise and regret at the move. They need not have been surprised and nobody believes they ever suffer from regret.

Dell set up a two plants in Poland two years ago as soon as that country got into the EU. They even sent over Polish workers to be trained by their Irish counterparts here.