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The dreaded April fools day arrives tomorrow, a week late.

Of course I’m talking about tomorrow’s impending budget that is. We have been told to expect a drop in the standard of our living and that we will have to bite the bullet and lots of other cliches by the assholes who are partly responsible in the first place.

I’ve had some thoughts on this for quite a while and of course it is nigh on impossible to avoid media coverage of the doom and gloom so why wouldn’t I have plenty of thoughts? And everyone has an idea or two on what should be done as well. But I have an interesting idea myself, one that deals not with the economy but more one that is more about political reform and one that may help in the future to avoid us getting this deep in the shit again.

Are you ready? Good, here we go:

No two members of the same immediate family should be allowed to serve in high political office at the same time as another.

By high political office I mean county councillor and above. We have a situation where there are three close family members from one family sitting as TD’s, namely Mary O’Rourke and Conor and Brian Lenihan. Come June’s by election in we may have more in the form of Bertie Aherns brother Maurice who is already a county councillor for Dublin and is contesting the late Tony Gregory’s seat.

Also we have one husband and wife double act in the current Dail. Olwyn Enright is married to another TD, Joe McHugh both of whom as one would expect are representing the same party but in different constituencies.

Am I alone in thinking that there is a conflict of interest by having multiple family members sitting in the same time? I’m sure family allegience would extend beyond their allegience to those they were elected to represent?

I do believe that having familiy dynasties are certainly not in the best interests of the country. Particluarly when it comes to Ms. Enright and Mr. McHugh who take home two salaries and up until recently used to claim double overnight expenses.

While I understand that Ms O’Rourke and the Lenihan brothers come from a strong political dynasty as well as number of other members of various County Councils, the Seanad and Dail, I think the country would be much better represented if there was only one from each family allowed.

How can we all be fairly represented if they are all related to each other?

For that matter how can we be fairly represented by generations on liers, theives and scumbags who get elected by family name alone?

Entire generations of thieving fuckers who think they have done nothing wrong. Beverly Cooper Flynn being the most obvious example. Being rewarded for her, dare I say treasonous acts encouraging wealthy citizens to hide their money from the Revenue Commissioners, by being welcomed back in to the fianna fail fold.

Bertie Ahern of course is another. Oh how I wish the next time I’m stuck for cash in a pub that someone hands me a brown envelope stuffed with a few thousand. I can only dream because I have as much chance of that happening as winning the lotto.

This ridiculousness has to stop and I for one am dreading the fact that an overpaid solicitor (who’s family alone have to be clearing at least a couple of million a year of tax payers money) will be presenting his idea of economic salvation. Or at least in his very blinkered eyes what he thinks will be. He’s a solicitor! He’s trained to lie and trained to lie more so than an accountant!

The fact remains that this country has no chance whatsoever as long as political dynasties rule the roost.