Government afraid to face vested interests

Our nation is on the brink of ruin and we find ourselves with a Government led by ageing mediocraties.

The opportunities presented by their massive parliamentary majority are being squandered as they flinch aside from radical reform of our financial institutions, our legal professionals and our bloated public service (be that elected or appointed). From all of these vested interests comes an overwhelming sense of entitlement, presumably developed in all the long years these people have sat at the top table to the detriment of the nation as a whole. I suppose I could ask sacrifice in the name of patriotic duty but I know that is a broken reed. Bankers, lawyers, teachers, nurses all give their well-versed replies as to their value to the state, their qualifications, the hardships they would suffer. Now, we all know the nation cannot afford their extravagant notions of worth but we have a government that is to cowardly to face these interests down. Instead they have chosen the path of appeasement. Do we have a person in our hour of danger who will stand before parliament and nation and say “Come let us go forward with our united strength”? Do we have anybody who would listen? Or do we need someone who will stand before parliament and say “You have sat here to long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”?

Fergus O’Leary