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When a Bad Week is Not So Bad
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Its amazing, a regular week where we got told our health system is shite-again-and that 1 in 5 people are still at risk of poverty in this country would see the government slammed from all directions. As it is the media are almost worn out from battering them over the statutory rape mess.
Still it begins to get ominous doesnt it? The media wind is well and truly at the backs of any opposition to the government, the tide of opinion firmly turned away from our incumbents (bar the loyal few) and toward the consistent drip-drip of bad news, worse news and when there is not new bad news recycled bad news. As elections are increasingly played out in the media and in crucial new urban areas around Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford the major source of election news will be TV, Radio and Newsprint you have to wonder at how the government will retain power.
The economy offers no certainties with SSIAs as likely to affect inflation as make us all feel better, interest rates could rain on FF and PD parade when the Germans ask for their money back.
Is it all hopeless though? While I think FF will scrape back in with Labour beside them, I am not sure. There must be someone willing to paint a rosy picture of the next nine or so months. Are we all just a bunch of moaners?
In many ways we are all just moaners. How much coverage did the extending of gp visit cards get. Look at the state of the country compared to the rest of Europe. Sure there is many bad things. But can we really say they have done a terrible job?
I have to say when you see how well off Ireland is compared to other countries its hard to see why everyone is moaning all the time.
For sure there are many things we could do better but its not like we are back in the Eighties when nobody had jobs and everyone with an education was leaving the country.