Barry Clifford: The Covenant Of Enda Kenny

“I when elected Taoiseach, entered a covenant with the Irish people. To tell them the truth, no matter how painful or difficult that truth might be.”

And so it was as the people looked up to the mountain in hope when the newly elected  messiah spoke. This was Enda Kenny’s finest hour. 

For the people that elected him, it was the start of a nightmare. What went wrong is too much of an admission for a Prime Minister that is almost invisible to the electorate in general; and a telfon Taoiseach he is not. Where did it all go right is more the question that needs to be asked, yet the citizen has delivered the answer, which as yet, no one understands in the present government or the media pundits trying to explain the message, that is dumbed down back to us to understand even though we are the ones that sent it.

The sharing as equals a debt not of our making or consent is one thing that many had allowed themselves to labour under, but what kept it going at all was the perception, that at the very least, would be equally shared. This is when Enda forgot the script of the covenant that he probably never read anyway. He remains the invisible, silent, minister so he may be thought to have backbone and character, rather than be seen opening his mouth and thus removing all doubt of what he is really about: A milksop that just talks to mirrors.

The Bank debt has never been accepted by the people of this land, and more so for those that caused it still pontificate behind obscene pensions that is layered with cushions of unaccountability. It is that and not a perception any longer that nothing has changed in Government only the faces; it is now a painful reality. People are mad and madder than hell. They cannot take it anymore and these are the people only in the front line of what I am talking about. In the trenches and out of view are the people with disabilities, the children in growing numbers in the same class with less teachers, the harsh terms of trying to qualify for a medical card, and then the Police state in case we thought it was any other.

There was one law for the unconnected and none for the connected presided by an overseer of justice called Alan Shatter of such breath taking arrogance that he could not tell the difference. Law and order was dead in the water and so is this government. Tick- tock and it had all started with that covenant that can only be measured by Shatters outright lies.

Let us look at that covenant more closely: immediately on taking office, members of all parties doubled their salaries with Kenny still being paid higher than most Prime Ministers of the free world that includes the President of the United States. Useless quango’s for the connected while charities that receive 80% of its funding from the taxpayer put 90% of it into their own pockets. And it would take too long on this letter to show you how the people were really shafted on the bank debt after our natural resources have long since been sold off; not to the highest bidder, but to those on the inside track with easy access to stuffed brown envelopes.            

Like the Bank debt, we had signed up to the covenant of Enda Kenny without being allowed to read the small print, that in essence gave the pot of gold away for a few pieces of silver to line the deep pockets of a few men and women whose physical bodies would not fill the living space of a small bedroom.

Barry Clifford