Minister Gormley ( Time to Decide )

The Marian Finucane Show 10/10/10

Listening to The Marian Finucane show today, you might be forgiven for thinking you were on another planet or at least in another country.

Minister John Gormley went to great lengths to welcome in with open arms an all party forum where the ills and woes of the state of the country could be agreed upon and an all party remedy imposed. He even made it quite clear that even though the Taoiseach Brian Cowan may have some reservations about such a mood that this would be “sorted”.

Minister Gormley is playing a two sided game. On the one hand he knows that the game is up between The Green Party and Fianna Fail. He can no longer sustain or indeed endorse the actions of either Brian Cowan or Brian Lenihan. However he is playing a cat and mouse game. The honourable thing for him to do is to meet The Taoiseach and explain to him that The Green Party are withdrawing from Government. Frankly he does not have the “Guts” to do that.

Instead he has floated this all party forum idea in a back door exit strategy. There are several positives for The Green Party in this. First of all they do not need to withdraw from Government if the austere measures have the support of all parties in the House. Secondly they will not have to take hard political decisions as they are becoming increasingly unsure of the effects such policies are having on the country. In other words they have lost confidence in both Minister Lenihan and The Taoiseach because if they had not then they would not need this all party forum in the first place. With the all party forum they can sit back and say well “We thought otherwise but this is The all Party Solution and in the National Interest we are supporting it.

These measures were not introduced by Fianna Fail and The Greens but by All Parties in Government. So by default The Greens survive in Government until 2012, while at the same time washing their hands of all responsibility and abdicating their adopted role in Government. Mr Gormley must take all of us for a bunch of gob******. Who in God’s name is he trying to cod? The electorate of this country are far more intelligent than he thinks.

Minister Gormley either accept your role in this “Awful” Government and abide by the consequences of the decision of The Green Party to enter coalition with Fianna Fail or Resign. There are your only options, because if you think you are getting off the hook through this slippery move you have another thing coming. Minister Gormley “GO NOW” and let the people speak.