Let’s hear it for MacMinisters! - People Before Profit proposal

Electioneering is like a developing courtship. 

Impossible promises are made — “of course I’ll sell the fishing boat, yep, the Corrib caravan too, ’shure I’ll be very happy to stay at home with you cutting the grass” — but neither party, if they have the wit of a flea, gives much credibility to most pronouncements. They are the puffed-up feathers of a courting cockatoo focussed on a primal objective.

The terribly earnest but slightly bonkers party — People Before Profit — said yesterday that, if in power, Dáil deputies would be paid the the national industrial wage. What a wonderful idea! What a gamechanger! What a way to motivate and attract the kind of talented people we need to take on a life-changing, family-isolating, free-time-ending political career. Their manifesto also suggests that ministers would not get extra pay for holding a cabinet seat. We’d have MacMinisters! What a revealing expression of utter incomprehension around the simple idea of human motivation.