Powerful citizens are being hypocritical

We just had a campaign to get rid of an elitist Seanad because it is unaffordable in a country that has been bankrupt by the decisions of its most powerful citizens.

The campaign to retain it was led by politicians who were in power for a long time and not alone did nothing to ‘reform’ the Seanad — they participated in the decisions which bankrupt the country.

They were supported by a media which cheerled over many years the decisions which bankrupted the country.

The campaign to retain their own privileged access to the unrepresentative Seanad was supported by academia. This is an academia which, like the media, either sang dumb or supported the policies which bankrupted the country.

The political stars who bankrupt the country and their supporting media gurus are now gloating over their ‘success’ in retaining an unaffordable bolthole for the elite.

Tomorrow they will be complaining about austerity. The words stupid, cynical, hypocritical are too mild.

A Leavy

Sutton

Dublin 13