Let’s wipe out the old politics

NOW that the Greens and a few independents have displayed a cute opportunism by upping the election stakes, we must stay our hand and try to think outside the box for a while.

Your editorial (November 22) starkly illuminates the shocking reality that many Irish people (63% at least) are relieved by the arrival of the IMF, et al. Given the dilatory incompetence of current national governance and the reckless fecklessness with everything but the truth, it offers some succour that, whatever else we get, we’ll get some authentic honesty from the IMF, however unpalatable.

Calling for a traditional general election post-haste may not be the best short-term solution. Yes, the Government should be dissolved (in acid, preferably), but there should be some interim emergency arrangement whereby a new order executive can be empowered to preside and deliver the stringency measures in the offing over the next four years.