Maybe you’re familiar with the term ‘humble-brag’. Just in case, humble-brag is when you give the impression of being modest about something while at the same time telling the world how great that something is.
Leo Varadkar was at it, when interviewed for maybe the last time as Taoiseach. “If there’s regret, it would be excessive caution at certain points. In 2011-2012, we never thought the economy would bounce back so quickly from the crash.”
See what he did there? Confessed to the sin of caution with public finances in a time of plenty. Created, of course, by you and your government, Leo.
But there’s another reason for this statement which relates to the hand-over of power to Simon Harris. Leo is saying he was overly cautious with money in the past. We know that the South’s budgetary surplus is slurping all over the rim. So it would make sense for Simon Harris to avoid Leo’s mistakes. In short, he’s been given the green light to roll up his sleeves and start doling out the dosh. That can be represented as correcting Leo’s caution, while at the same time giving the South’s public a few nice back-handers as the general election rolls closer and closer. “This isn’t a bribe to vote for FG in the election!” Simon can declare in his raspy little voice. “It’s me, the new Taoiseach, correcting some of the self-confessed errors of that guy going out the door!”
Never let it be said that one blueshirt failed to scratch the back of another blueshirt.
Very good jude free Palestine
Amen to that Jude
yes but the one thing and probably the only thing I agree with Leo on is money shouldn’t count when it comes to reunification
Well spoken as per usual Jude