Our never-never land VIPs cling to comfort zone

DESPITE everything that has befallen our economy in recent times, we are still living in a political never-never land where nobody wants to grow up.

For starters, the Government doesn’t want to grow up. It is still pretending that some benign fairy from outside our shores will somehow turn up just in the nick of time to save us from the band of pirates called the International Monetary Fund, and so it is going along its merry way of plus ca change.

Our wild profligacy continues across the political landscape and the public service that underpins it. There is still no solution that can be entertained for simple anomalies such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who presides over a country of 80 million people, and the fourth biggest economy in the world, earning €220,000 while our government ministers earn €240,000.