Lack of Leadership

The budget is another glaring example of the kind of incompetent, short-sighted economic mis-management that brought us the banks bailout and NAMA. I'm concerned that this current crop of 'politicians' now run the risk of jeopardising not only my future, but that of the next generation.

We need poiltical change in this country - we need thinkers who can challenge the dominant ideology of the current staus quo (if there even is one). We need a new political party.

Unfortunately, I genuinely think that many of those figures who really care about the state of the nation are so disillusioned with the political system that they would be fundamentally opposed to becoming involved in party politics in this country as we know it.

I worry that we’re that far gone that anybody who cares enough or who can see past the constructs of the political elite are just steering clear and withdrawing in the hope of self-preservation.

I don’t know what it would take for a group of similarly minded people to a) make a decision to collectively enter the political fray b) garner the necessary support c) challenge the hegemony that has ruled the political roost in this country since the civil war??