The Greens haven’t led us to believe that they deserve coalition status

Alison O’Connor (Irish Examiner, Jan 8) tells how the cuddly Greens make a nice, harmless, side salad political option, but do they?

The reality is whether or not the Greens had gone into government in 2007, the country had already passed the point of no return. Not being in that government might have saved some Green TDs but it wouldn’t have saved the country, and the Greens did pay a heavy price for being so ineffective during that government. The problem is not so much the incompetence of that government, it is more the that the Greens seemed gullible and never seemed to have the guts to stand up to their bullying colleagues.

So why should we believe if the Greens were to form part of the next government, they’d be any better, given that Fine Gael has proven it operates to the same low standards of Fianna Fáil?