Government wants more power in fewer hands
The Government is offering you an IOU. You give them your Seanad now, and in return they promise that they will give you critically needed political reform later. Can you trust them to redeem this IOU? Based on their form since the election, I believe that they cannot be trusted.
Our failed political system desperately needs reform. The evidence is to be found in the ruins of our shattered economy, in the dole queues, and foreclosed mortgages. The principal blame for the calamity rested not with the bankers and developers who were irresponsible and sometimes corrupt, but with the politicians who were incompetent.
