Fine Gael would do well to form the coalition staring them in the face

It is a pack of lies to say the current Coalition inherited “a wreck”. And it’s not convincing people, writes Victoria White.

HOW dare Minister Richard Bruton give us the choice between turning into Greece and re-electing his government! Particularly as there is a potentially stable government made up of two centrist parties staring him in the face. A coalition between his party and the party which authored the plan for the recovery he is crowing about.

Yes, Fianna Fáil authored the bust too. But by the time Fine Gael and Labour took the reins of power in 2011, 75 percent of the painful budgetary “adjustment” had been made, the banking legislation had been put through, NAMA had been established, deficit reduction was on-target and tax receipts were ahead of target.