Sir, The naivety displayed in your newspaper's articles on the Dunnes controversy is truly amazing. Your columnists and journalists seem surprised that we have a situation where payments are distributed to political parties and/or political people over the dinner table; where discussions of "policy" are the stuff of chats over coffee; where the wealth of parties is directly related to whether they are in - or likely to be in - government.
As a newspaper (and as a protector of our liberties) do you never ask yourself what reasons people have to enter politics? To take an example from the US: why would anyone raise and spend millions of dollars to compete for Congress, the Senate or the Presidency when the job pays no more than a midrange executive salary in business? Ask yourself where the money comes from, here or in the US.
Worse ask yourself why we don't seem to have any honest politicians and the answer will be scary we don't elect any. We vote for the same old horses in the same old race and someone else gets what they pay for. - Yours etc.,
Stevinstraat 97L
The Hague,
The Netherlands