‘Lack of accountability’
Clúid
The bottom line is that some of these TDs have spent just about enough time in bed with the NGO sector, and the progressives. The frenetic action is over now, and all they’re left with is the mess, and the shame, and the sense that they’ve betrayed the people they were actually married to.
The truth is that it was the politicians who didn’t understand – why they were having these votes, what the point of them was, or why people had the concerns that they did.
After all, if the independent electoral commission was actually independent, would politicians have been so eager to set it up?
‘Suppression of information’
It will, as progressives have done in almost every campaign over the last century, be an effort to guilt the public into voting against the alleged sins of their grandparents and great-grandparents.
Any honest conversation about misinformation would include the basic fact that the greatest purveyors of misinformation in any democracy – not only Irelands – are elected politicians and unelected political actors.
No surprise
We will find out soon enough how well he has thought his policies through. And we should learn from both his successes, and his errors.
The Peter McVerry trust is illiquid, not insolvent. It should be forced to take its losses, sell some property, and learn its lessons.
The whole thing is rotten, from the ground up.