Time for serious politicians to get off the fence

Clearly we can march till the cows come home, we can vent our national spleen on Talk to Joe and we can waste acres of forests writing to the papers.

Kenny and the Government will not change the more brutal aspects of the budget because they don’t have the freedom to change. They have been forced, lemming like, by the Troika to embark on a destructive economic rollercoaster without any real vision or knowledge of the eventual consequences for Irish society.

They target the grey brigade, the infirm and the young while cushioning themselves and the rich. The recent sleight of hand in the budget to protect the mega pensions of politicians, judges and senior civil servants, is just another case in point.