Originally Posted by
LaBelleThatcher
Oh I don't know...far more people died for Christianity...and I do not feel that obliges me to go to church in the morning.
Democracy has become nothing only a PR war combined with a way of punishing the worst excesses. I can see the historical signs, all across Europe, of impending "social upheaval" (isn't THAT a nice wee euphemism?) seems to me a lot of politicians are not so much treading water in that as flayling around, frantic to find ways to avert that. Of course the best way to do so is a return to deregulation and a turning of the blind eye to let people concentrate on fending for themselves as best they can, hugely complicated by the fact that, sometimes during the boom, Ireland became "little Switzerland" for regulation with no established ethos and traditions of non-compliance.
Standing that down will not be easy, but it has to be done here. Irish people will only stand for regulation in return for a time of plenty, during a time of want it is an invasion liable to send them clean through the roof.