Government of national unity is the only answer

CONGRATULATIONS on an excellent leading article (August 22). It reflects very accurately the crystallisation of public opinion towards the conclusion that the current NAMA proposals are fundamentally flawed — if not worse.

Were I as an ordinary citizen (wishing to sell my humble property in “real life”) to set my minimum selling price, any prospective purchaser would be gone in seconds.

Rightly or wrongly, a growing number of ordinary punters now believe that no matter what cosmetic amendments, soaked in crocodile tears, may be accepted by the Government before the bill is finally rammed through the Oireachtas, its prime — and continuing — purpose is to slip a few bob to the pals to reward them for the errors of their flamboyant ways.