FF voters are fecking deluded

According to my learned friend people who voted FF say:
* FF are wizards at running the economy
* FF created the IFSC
* FF lowered corp tax
* Bertie has answered the money/house thing.

On the economy the perceived wisdom (subscription reqd.) is that inflation has eroded our competitiveness and residual growth is fuelled by consumer borrowing. Oops.
Even Bertie has admitted (post-election) that we are heading for trouble.
Michael Casey (sub req.) argued in the IT the other day that no Irish government has much control over the economy - they don't set exchange or interest rates, they have no control over population growth and as we are a "globalised economy" we are dependent on the performance of other economies. He also points out that "non-governmental experts and specialised agencies make the important decisions."

The dreaded CJH and Der Kaiser must take the credit for the IFSC - which happened about 400 years ago, and the IDA brought the yanks here, albeit with tax incentives etc.

Most FFers believe Charlie was innocent and were more upset over the revelations about Dead Keen than the scrounged millions. They are similarly taking a benign view of the Bert and his unconventional house buying and banking arrangements. Gobshites.

The reality is the difference between FF and The Blueshirts is so narrow you couldn't squeeze a brown envelope between them.