Socialists a study in scaremongering as Enda stays on sunny side

Finally, the campaign for the referendum nobody really wanted, about the thing nobody really understands, was peaking.

United Left Alliance TD Richard Boyd Barrett’s level of ever-increasing outrage was reaching such a crescendo that, like a five-year-old demanding attention, he blurted out the most frightening thing he could imagine — that a ticking “timebomb of austerity” was about to blow us all up if we dared defy him and did not vote no.

Blimey, and they accuse the yes side of scaremongering?