Cowen should let us decide now who will replace him in the bunker

ABOUT a year ago a viral video swept the internet, parodying Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s handling of the country.

It involved a scene from the magnificent German movie Downfall, which portrayed the fall of Berlin at the conclusion of the Second World War and the end of the Third Reich. The viral involved putting subtitles of Cowen speaking over a scene of an actor playing Adolf Hitler, in his bunker, losing the plot as he fought against his inevitable destruction.

It was grossly unfair somehow to link Cowen to a mass murderer of course: his mistakes are not crimes. But it was humorous and it conveyed a point: even when it is obvious that it is over for those in power they do what they can to hang on. Now we have an updated ‘Downfall II’ skit again on Cowen as a demented Hitler put up on YouTube.