Depressing critique of Government shoddiness

Colette Browne’s (Opinion, Sep 26) debilitating critique of the shallow, sham shenanigans of current governmental shoddiness, particularly around healthcare re-orientations, is nothing short of depressing, yet unfortunately true.

This tragi-comic pantomime, which dissembles as statutory management of the nation, is sadly on an unassailable five-year run. So much for authentic democracy, and being directly answerable to the people apropos of promises made.

Enda Kenny saying “he extolled the long-ignored merits of ethics and probity”, and Eamon GIlmore claiming “the surest way to keep corruption at bay is to lead a new kind of politics in our country” illuminates the comfort zone of pre-election politics as a beaming bonanza of fibbing “bloomers”.

The disappointing calibre, diluted capability, and drained credibility of many of the main players are key hindrances to any sustained streamlined progress. Kenny, very much a weak second-hand choice for leadership of his party, shrouds himself regularly in vacuous hyperbole and gratuitous grandstanding. His inability to coherently discuss any significant issue, (apart, that is, from Gaelic football), is legendary. Gilmore is a travesty of a Labour Tanáiste, failing every benchmark for assessment of his socialist credentials, despite his trenchant moralising in opposition.

James Reilly reminds one of the accurate erstwhile appraisal of Paisley, as being less “blood & thunder... more thud & blunder”.

Staying in power is the only game in town, it seems. Irrespective of all irregularities that surface in the governing body politic, the aggregate botch count of Kenny, Hogan, Hayes, Howlin, Reilly, et al, coupled with the ineffectual docility of Gilmore and the elusive Rabbitte, make for incompetence of “gast-flabbering” proportion.

Jim Cosgrove

Lismore

Co Waterford