Rubbish at pretending everything’s alright
I’m not sure what Noonan’s game is, but judging by his remarks in the Dáil yesterday, it’s all about keeping the electorate in the dark.
Challenged by Sinn Féin’s finance spokesman Pearse Doherty on the question of a second bailout, Noonan said: “If you want to scaremonger your children and talk about the bogeyman coming down the chimney in two years’ time, go right ahead and do it.“You’ve a simple decision to be made. You can put your strength at the end of the rope and pull with us or you can stay with the knockers.”
So that’s it, Michael: it’s all about not scaring the children, or for that matter the adults.
After seven or eight months of daily financial and economic analysis oozing out of every media pore in the land, the public are well versed on bailouts, interest rates, GDP, inflation and EU politics.
To my mind, there is no point in pretending there’s no “bogeyman coming down the chimney” when he’s already in your sitting room in the form of bad news.
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