The Green Party about to engage in yet another capitulation to Fianna Fail ...

Excellent article from Vincent Brown in the Irish Times 23rd June 2010. The article says that the Green Party are just about to engage in yet another capitulation over the terms of reference of the commission to inquire into the economic and banking crisis.

They have already given in on the inquiry being in public. They are about to give in on the extent to which the inquiry will examine Brian Cowen’s role in both the banking and the economic collapse and there will be all sorts of palaver deployed to disguise that. Stuff about there being no necessity for finger-pointing (translated this means: forget about accountability), that the two reports by Patrick Honohan and the economists Klaus Regling and Max Watson tell us almost everything we need to know (translation: all we can now bear to know and remain in government); that we need to look forward now (let Brian off the hook, for God’s sake).

But we sure as hell need to know what went on and why, principally the extent to which our prime minister was responsible for the most wanton damage done to this country since the Famine.

The full article is wort reading here.