Does electorate need ‘convincing’ of how to vote in next election?

WE WILL start with an admission: I rather enjoyed the extravaganza that was the Spring Statement. I am in a minority, I know, and it does feel like a guilty pleasure.

Sure it was a backslapping orgy, the like of which we have rarely seen in politics, certainly not in recent times.

You did wonder, as you watched, how Ministers Noonan and Howlin kept straight faces as they delivered unto themselves such unrelenting praise and drew the curtains on the era of austerity budgets.