""Greedy" Doctors in Ireland was due to Thatcher "
Not sure I agree about the doctors (a local doctor, Michael Harty, here in Clare, has just been elected to the Dail on a 'protest at what's happening to the health service' ticket) but the general downturn in living standards is entirely due to our politicians having accepted the "me-me-me" values respectablised by Thatcher and her cronies.
Thankfully, the outcome of this election has been a huge kick in the arse for the right, a swing to the left and the virtual annihilation of a Parliamentary Labour Party which sold its soul by cohabiting with the right wing by entering into coalition with the rightest of rights - serve them ***** right, in every sense.
About time it happened across the pond
Jim Carroll