Another generation lost thanks to State ineptitude on homes
IT looks like Fianna Fail’s big reaction to the Dublin South disaster will be to follow the lead of the lads who arranged the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Rather than do something about the issues facing the country – other than hand another billion quid to the vulture funds – they’ll just start a heave against Michael Martin and sure it’s a bit of excitement for the lads, anyhow.
This comes after their director of Elections (and Titanic first-mate) Jim O’callaghan admitted his party didn’t “get” the scale of the housing crisis.
That’s the same housing crisis that’s been going on for a decade or more now, has made life nearly impossible for working families and is a full-blown national disgrace and burning indictment of our political leaders.
How have Michael, Jim, Leo and the rest of the well-upholstered leaders of our country
We are now into second generation of housing market misery
not got this by now?
We are now into our second generation of housing market misery.
The children of the people who had to work, save and scrimp like maniacs to get a home are now finding themselves even worse off than their parents.
These young people can’t afford to even rent a shoe-box in Dublin or Cork, never mind entertain the possibility of some day owning a home.
Many of them are choosing to emigrate to somewhere where hard work and talent can actually get them a decent life. Another generation gone. Sure it’s what we do, Germany exports cars, we export people. And usually, our best and brightest who contribute greatly with their work and skills to England, America and Australia.
If you are a politician, if you have eyes and ears, there’s no excuse for not “getting it” and zero excuses for sitting on your arse.
But we muddle along, year in, year out, because our apparently deaf, dumb and blind main parties would prefer to do nothing [or worse, do the opposite of what’s needed] to solve a problem no other country in the EU is facing. The solutions are there. They’ve been made to work elsewhere. Everybody from the ordinary voter to our leading economists and housing experts have been pointing and screaming at them for years.
Michael Martin says his party shouldn’t entertain notions of a leadership challenge until the next election, which he says will be in 2025 (good luck with that!).
But his backbenchers are certainly “getting it” – they’re feeling the heat now along with the lads in Fine Gael. There’s electoral carnage on the horizon.
The vultures are finally coming home to roost.