Opinion: Coalition must do more to restore faith in wake of water debacle

I’M feeling like the Government has given me a bunch of flowers and an apology, but no real explanation why they’ve made such a mess of our relationship.

In fairness the flowers don’t feel like a bouquet hastily picked up in a petrol forecourt. They’re the extravagant sort – the ones bought in a sorry, money-no-object way, to try to make it all seem better after months of nagging has turned into an all out fight. But what I was seeking was more in terms of an explanation as to why they needed to be presented in the first place, and why I won’t be deserving of a second bunch in the near future.

I’ll end my rather tortuous analogy there. I drew on it in order to explain (even to myself), that slightly empty feeling I had on Wednesday night following all the hoopla surrounding the official announcement on the new water charges regime.