A warning to emigrants: nothing has changed in the sodding ol’ sod
The complete shambles that is Irish Water shows that nothing has changed.
The banking inquiry proves that if Fine Gael and Labour had been in power from 2007 they would have acted exactly the same as the Fianna Fáil/PD/Green/Independents government did and protected their friends in the banks.
The only difference is that Enda Kenny would have played at a different golf course than Brian Cowen.
Now we see Permanent TSB is to blame for people actually losing their home. But PTSB doesn’t even face fine and it will create a compensation scheme that will be shaped to suit the interests of the bank and each person involved will have to jump through countless hoops to get anywhere.
Will all the people who lost their homes because of PTSB be put back in the exact position they would now have been in if PTSB hadn’t ruined their lives? Will their children get emotional help for what they have been put through. Will it fix any of the relationships that crumbled under the financial pressure?
Most of us took a risk and gave Enda Kenny the benefit of the doubt and put our concerns about his lack of intellectual vigour to one side. We wanted to see if he would rise to the challenge and start to tear back decades of corruption and cronyism. But of course we now realise he’s the classic insider. Normal people also know Sinn Féin /IRA isn’t the solution either.
So if you are thinking of returning to Ireland, I would think twice.
Your new home gave you a chance at life that your birth country refused to give you. The potential to learn from past mistakes has been squandered. And though it pains us to say it, it has been squandered also by our parents and grandparents’ generation who sacrificed those younger than them to protect mortgage-free properties, public sector pensions and professional cartels.
So if you do return, good luck to you, but don’t expect change.
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