Farewell 2010 - Election will turn focus to the future

THE wretched, gray year dragging to a close has been one of misery, frustration, disappointment, capitulation and anger.

The news has been unrelentingly grim and very many people have had to turn a deaf ear to the events of the day. However, it is essential that detachment, that sense of not being involved, does not extend to the general election now anticipated in March.

Its importance is in direct proportion to the great difficulties facing us and unless politicians are certain about what is expected of them in the next government we can expect little other than more of the same.