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Cowen resigns

Posted Saturday, January 22, 2011

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Cowengate

He is packing it in at last - although still staying on as head of government.

It seems that the party elders, the men in grey suits as they are called, paid him a visit and advised him to go.

It looks like Michael Martin will become his successor from early indications.

Poll Boost

Fianna Fail, who languish on 14% in the polls, the same as Sinn Fein, are looking for any kind of boost at the coming election on March 11th.

It would have been difficult for them to go to the polls with a man whom many of the party had just tried to dump as leader.

Fine Gael

Fine Gael are going to have this problem.

They are going to have to ask us to vote for someone, Enda Kenny, who many of them tried to dump themselves not too long ago.

People will be asking "if the people who know him best tried to dump him, why would we have confidence in him to lead the nation at this difficult time?"

Just Like Us

Fianna Fail, strangely, intend to fight the election of a policy of Fine Gael have pretty much the same policies as we have as regards solutions to Ireland's problems - and less experience.

They have a chance of making it stick as most people see this as being pretty true.

Labour and Fine Gael's only real difference as regards curing the budget deifcit is the amount to cut and whether the bulk should be in cuts or tax rises.

Going Down

Indeed there is not too much to chose in the policies of the three main parties as regards solving the crisis.

The ship is going down.

They are arguing over what way to arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Taxpayers or Bondholders?

The only party which seems to have anything different is Sinn Fein who are advocating that the bondholders be burned - that the Irish people shouldn't pay back the money that foreign banks loaned to our banks.

One feels that this will be a much easier message to sell on the doorsteps instead of 35 years of penury till we, our children and our children's children, pay it off.

Bankrupt the Irish people or Burn the Bondholders - which message do you think the electorate will go for?

Sinn Fein

I know which option the Icelancders chose when asked - and they are now well on their way to recovery.

One expects that there will be a similar effect across the country as happened in the recent election in Donegal.

One also expects that Independents will do well.

There could well be a sensational result in the next election once the people get the choice of who should get burnt.