Private sector workers go down with sinking ship

RECENTLY, I have noted that our ship of state is now often being compared to the ill-fated RMS Titanic.

With this in mind, let me follow up on the analogy. We have had somebody declare her “unsinkable” as in the “boom has just got boomier”. Whatever happened to the man who said that? Are we following the “Birkenhead Drill“ of women and children first?

It’s first class passengers first into under-utilised lifeboats — ie, the politicians, senior civil servants, and the senior bankers. Second-class passengers are the civil servants and public service workers. I draw a distinction between civil servants and public service workers; normally the public service workers are skilled and competent like nurses and gardaí.