We’ve all hit Budgetphobia by now, but I’ll just leave you on this thought. The steep cuts to the public service were a by-product of the revulsion of the private sector to the plan for 12 days unpaid leave for the public service. Budget cuts were leaked for sounding out to the public for days now. Public support (or rather the lack of a majority of voters going apeshit) was, undoubtedly, their carrot.
Fianna Fáil know they are going to lose the next election, so preempting union hellfire and moving back into right-wing policies to back-pedal some kind of support base is obviously their aim. Thoughts?
