Opinion: We don’t need a revolution – just the ballot at next general election

THE water charges unveiled yesterday will do nothing to conserve water or reflect ability to pay and may not work to fix our creaking system. The plan was hatched by a Government which is, as the Right to Water Campaign said this week, “on the run”.

But hold your fire until the next Election. We have worked too hard to create this democratic republic for it to be thrown away to a bunch of fascists.

The fact that one Government made a dog’s dinner of introducing a new tax — reduced to crumbs delivered in the Dáil yesterday — does not justify throwing away our democratic principles.