Sir, – The easiest thing for any politician to do is to take the easy and popular option.
Over the past 25 years our country has almost been ruined by easy options and popular policies. Light-touch regulation was the angel on the bonnet of the Rolls Royce of easy politics.
That is the creature of pressure from lobbyists and it has caused a ubiquitous destabilising havoc with seismic consequences today – from banking to stockbrokers to construction and concrete blocks .
Over the past week the Government has taken some unpopular decisions. Witness the hue and cry. Just like last autumn. Remember what happened after Christmas? I prefer a Government that is willing to put the welfare of its people before short-term crowd-pleasing easy political advantage.
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– Yours, etc,
MICHAEL DEASY,
Carrigart,
Co Donegal.