Politicians will forget about us after the vote...

AT the end of this month, the Irish people will go to the polls to elect a new government to rule us for the next five years.

Everywhere we go now we can’t help bumping into politicians from all the political parties walking up and down the road, streets and boreens.

People who have been missing and hiding on us for the last five years now seem to be coming out of the woodwork in pubs, supermarkets, at funerals etc., as if they have never been away, shaking our hands and asking all about the family.

This is amazing but you have to admire them for their brass necks.

All may be rosy in the garden for them maybe, but not the rest of us who they have screwed and put us in the poorhouse with their taxes on property, bins and water.

Big Brother in the council and Dáil has been living off the fat of the land with two pensions and big wages as the rest of us find it hard to make ends meet.

When the election is over, the newly elected politicians won’t be seen again for another five years as they run off on j unkets on St Patrick’s Day to America and other exotic places to be wined and dined by Americans and other foreigners.

We pay the airfares, hotel bills for them and their families, while we, the Irish men and women who voted for them, are stuck in the poverty trap they made for us.

They live the high life abroad pretending to be getting jobs for us, reviewing American parades while snubbing the Irish parades at home in Ireland.

If politicians in other countries did this on their national holidays they would be hung out to dry. So I ask the question – are the people going up for election doing it for the best interests of the citizens of Ireland or themselves?

Their only interest is getting big wages, big pensions and a free holiday for themselves on March 17.

As we cry out for bread and justice, those at the top tell us to eat cake and live on fresh air. .

MARTIN FORD, Sligo.