HOME Friday,3 May 2002

So Mary Harney is advising the voters not to give Fianna Fail an overall majority? What could be the reason for that, I wonder. "Fianna Fail needs someone to keep an economic eye on them," says Mary. Oh. And we all thought that it was just because if Fianna Fail had an overall majority, then Mary and her "Progressive" Democrats would loose their little bit of power, not to mention prestige. It just shows how wrong you can be.   But Mary need not worry too much about it, because most voters would not trust any of the parties to run a maggot farm unsupervised, let alone the whole country. We do not trust them, and they have shown us that we were right not to trust them. I only hope that some day, soon, the voters in Ireland will realise that the party system is primarily serving the parties themselves and not the people of Ireland. On that day, when every one votes for an independent, a lot of dead wood will have been pruned from the Dail. And if any more gets in under the new, partyless, election system, then it will be an awful lot easier for the people to get it out again.