Drawing a blank

THE Government’s Medium-Term Economic Strategy to 2020 is elegantly written.

It sets out the administrations achievements under the troika’s austerity programme. There are a large number of actions, actual and scheduled. The strategy is the Coalition setting out its stall in the run up to this year’s local and European elections. It details the Coalition’s aspirations, including an end to austerity by 2016, which just happens to coincide with the next general election and with the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

It would be unfair to criticise the authors of the strategy for the lack of radical thinking behind it or the largely unquestioning approach to the legacy of austerity. These things are determined by the Government.