Bureaucratic insanity

YET another wonderful example of the sheer inanity of our bureaucrats is this recent bleating for more women in government.

Why?

Balance?

Of what?

Hormones and dresses?

How about more dentists, more environmental scientists, more atheists, more accountants, more grandmothers (wonderful people), more handicapped people, more transvestites or more athletes?

Personally I would be very happy with more comedians, guitar players or jugglers, but how about this for a really radical idea — what about having more people in government who were capable of running a country?

Now, how could we arrange that, because it sure as hell doesn’t happen by voting.

Richard D Barton

Tinahely

Co Wicklow