New coalition, old coalition

A chara, – Are we back in the wretched old days of December 2010? A senior Cabinet Minister going on solo-runs, making pronouncements…

A chara, – Are we back in the wretched old days of December 2010? A senior Cabinet Minister going on solo-runs, making pronouncements about the state of the economy and the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance publicly disagreeing with that Minister. The Coalition partners publicly disagreeing on policy matters that should be detailed in the programme for government?

I thought we had an election to sweep the FF-Green arranged marriage from power in favour of the solidity and clear focus of an FG-Labour coalition. It seems many of the same policies, and same public disagreements are being pursued by the new Coalition. I just wonder are they employing the same spin doctors? It seems that while you may not be able to fool all of the people all of the time, you just need to fool most of the people at election time. – Is mise,

DECLAN KEANE,

Prosperous, Co Kildare.