Economy sinking, but we have no lifeboats

In the year that’s in it, perhaps we could just reflect on the last couple of years rather than the previous hundred.

First the similarity — well, we did manage to hit the economic equivalent of an iceberg, and whilst we did jettison the captain, most of the senior officers and the rest of the crew overboard, their replacements haven’t been much cop. This lot appear hellbent not on salvaging the situation but on hoisting their colours and increasing speed to full ahead and bringing the rest of us to the bottom of Davy Jones’ locker with them.

It looks as if even the deckchairs are not going to be re-arranged and we all know that there are not enough lifeboats to go round. We now have the ludicrous situation where the ruling classes are so busy chattering among themselves that at least one of them is refusing to speak to the media about a pertinent matter — and I used to think that the Syrian and Israeli governments were the only ones who treated their citizens like that?

Liam Power

Bangor

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