Madam, – I’m fed up with hearing Government ministers tell us that the reason why they are so unpopular at the moment is because they’re having to make difficult and unpopular decisions in order to drag our economy back from the abyss.
While their medicine is hard to take and certainly not popular, everybody accepts that something must be done. But the real reason why the Government remains unpopular is because it didn’t take those “unpopular decisions” at the time when they knew the country was heading for a disaster of the Government’s own making. Of course, taking the necessary action at that time would have been unpopular also, but only with the developers and bankers! – Yours, etc,