So Trevor Sargent resigned. Conspiracies abound. Was it:

a ) Fianna Fail looking for revenge for the shafting of Slick Willie

b) Fine Gael looking to make it look like Fianna Fail were looking for revenge for the shafting of Slick Willie

c) The Greens trying to make it look it like they had some kind of moral compass and when an issue came up they’d resign straight away instead of clinging on like a desperate rat like Slick Willie

Personally, I think it’s A although I wouldn’t rule out B. C we can discount straight away because even the Greens know at this stage that nobody believes they have an ounce of morality over anything. If they can support NAMA an ill-advised letter to the cops is hardly a big issue.

If it is A then it’s just more proof that FF are more interested in getting their own back than running the country. B I don’t have a big problem with if that’s the case. It’s stuck another hole in the bow of the leaky boat and the more holes there are the sooner it sinks.

What’s clear though is that none of them really give a fuck about anything other than being in government. Not to effect change, not to do what the people elected them to do and act in their best interests, just to be in power and have cars and the money and the women and piles of cocaine and Swarovski dildo/butt plug combo.

The sooner this shambles of an administration comes to an end the better. I’m looking forward to the all new shambles FG and Labour will create. At the very least it’ll provide some new material.

Willie O’Dea has resigned. Here’s his resignation letter (via The Story). Here’s the pathetic Green response, as pitiful an attempt to save face as you’ll ever see.

It just calls into credibility … again … this whole government who gave O’Dea a vote of confidence barely 24 hours ago.

I’m glad he’s gone, he’s nasty little toad who has just had the smirk well and truly wiped off his face. Let’s hope he is the first in the house of cards.

Sentator Deirdre de Burca has resigned from the Green Party citing a loss of confidence in leader John Gormley. Her resignation letter spells out exactly what many have been thinking about the Greens for a long time.

She accuses the party of being hungry for power :

Any suggestion that we challenge Fianna Fáil, or face it down over important issues, seems to bring up a great fear in us that we will have to leave government. In fact staying in government appears to have become an end in itself now for the Green Party. While I was always aware that our political inexperience as a party would leave us vulnerable to being manipulated by Fianna Fáil in government, what I hadn’t predicted was the strong attachment to office that appears to have developed since we became part of government.

Of course that’s part of it and something I’ve said before. However, Green support of FF policy has been an act of self-preservation as much as a quest for power. They could have taken down the government over NAMA but knew if they did so they faced almost a total wipe-out at any election.

It is clear that Gormley enjoys his Ministerial position though, even so far as joining in with the limo set, and that if he’d had any ounce of morality left in him the Greens would have pulled out of this sham of a government a long time ago. The excuses about being able to dictate policy from the inside were laughable, the only dick in the Greens was Fianna Fail’s as it rode them over and over again.

De Burca accuses Gormley of being ‘unable, or unwilling’ to take a stronger line with FF over various issues. Seems reasonable. Gormley has never struck me as a powerful, decisive man. How he, or anyone in the Greens, ever expected him to be able to cope with the experience and slieveenery of the most powerful and corrupt politican organisation in the country is beyond me. But it’s about time somebody from the Greens, or recently ex of the Greens, said it out loud.

They might have gone into government thinking they could make a difference but they were allowed nothing but token gestures to keep them onside as FF continued their plundering of the country. Then supported them as the best people to get us out of the situation they got us into it. As I’ve said before you don’t go to your rapist for counselling.

Bottom line though is that not many people who voted for the Greens at the last general election did so to see them go into government with FF. It was a betrayal of their voters and, of course, their own principles. They have propped up this current administration to the point where they’ve foisted NAMA on us, plunged generations in debt and done little to solve the problems we face. We’re a placid lot, really, but when public sector ‘work to rules’ and strikes and job losses and increased taxes and lack of opportunity really start to hit home then we could find ourselves on the cusp of civil unrest.

That is what the Green Party have brought to this government and Gormely will go down in history as one of Irish politics biggest fools. I’ve had issues with Deirdre de Burca before as she toed the party line, but fair play to her for resigning and not pulling any punches as to why (is that swish European job still up for grabs, btw?!). Despite the fact the resignation of Senator is hardly a killer blow, let’s hope there are others in the party who might, now that the gates have been opened slightly, feel the same way inclined and put an end to this travesty at last.

Last night on the week in politics, Mary White, deputy leader of the Green Party, was talking about how they had, in a Sunday Business Post poll, gained 2%. They now have 5%. Amazing, considering what a pack of feckless cretins they are.

Still, Mary White knows how important the Greens are. Mary White is under no illusions as to the job they have to do. Mary White is not one for specious, trite comparisons. Mary White wants to set the people free. Mary White is the Green Queen of Emancipation. Oh yes.

Last night on The Week in Politics, she said:

“I was reading the life of Lincoln recently and he was prepared to lose half the United States to do the right thing for his country by abolishing slavery.

We’re going to do the right thing by our country by making sure we can come out of recession”.

The Deputy Leader of the Green Party said this, last night, on national television … with a straight face. I wonder how much of Ireland the Green Party are willing to sacrifice to do what they consider to be the right thing for ‘our country’.

Because making some budget cuts and tax increases to undo the mess you have made in government (and it’s funny how much the Greens try and distance themselves from any culpability by using the ‘it was like that when we got here’ card) is just like Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery.

As she pointed out last night 84% of the Green members supported the party continuing in government, despite the huge public objection to NAMA, so perhaps that’s how much of the country they are willing to lose to ‘do the right thing’. Oppose NAMA? The Greens are prepared to lose you, because what you think doesn’t matter, your objections are irrelevant, because the most important thing is that the Greens get to implement their policies.

And as soon as anyone figures out exactly what their policies are I’ll let you know.

Now, I’m off to round up my slaves to make sure Mary White doesn’t set them free.

The Greens staying in government is the greatest act of self-preservation since Walt Disney had his corpse frozen.

This morning the Irish Times reports that a ’senior’ Fianna Fail source told them they expect full support for the budget in December from Gormley and his motley crew of power-hungry fuckwits who have deluded themselves into thinking they have the slightest influence over government policy.

So remember that when the budget comes. When social welfare is cut, when taxes are raised, when new levies are introduced, when property taxes and fees for breathing are brought in, remember that all this is possible thanks to our good old friends in the Green Party.

When the budget arrives and you’re living on gruel while TDs still claim unvouched expenses and fleece us every day of the week, give the Greens the credit they deserve.

Still, the country’s widespread anger and outrage that minks are farmed will be quenched and that’s the most important thing. No more mink farming. Hurrah. I believe the Greens have also won concessions from the government to stop Ireland’s whaling industry, the annual Connemara seal cull will not take place and a sanctuary for giant pandas is being built in Leitrim.

They must be ever so proud of themselves.

Whatever way you want to look at it, either from the perspective of a Green Party member who knows this is their last hurrah, or someone who thinks the Greens are a pack of spineless, amoral cunts, they, with Gormley at the helm, will be remembered as the party who have propped up and enabled the worst administration in Irish history. They’ll be remembered as the cunts who could have saved us from NAMA but chose to lie down with devil.

What a legacy.

I hope they get blown up like the Rainbow Warrior.

Fianna Fail and the Greens are going to begin talks today on a new programme for government. No, seriously. They are.

This is like Hitler and Co sitting down to being talks a new programme for holocaust.

Here’s an idea, FF and the Greens, and I’ll save you all the time in the world. Look back at what you’ve done since you came into power. Now do the fucking opposite.

This government has the reverse Midas touch. Everything they go near turns to shit.

These talks are all down to the Greens, by the way. They demanded them when it became clear Ireland had become a nation with streets paved of poo. Check this though:

They are also expected to push for the implementation of more green policies as the price for keeping Fianna Fáil in power despite its unpopularity with the public.

Isn’t that fucking marvellous? We’ll get a carbon tax, some other tree-hugging load of bollocks brought in by the Greens, and they think this is acceptable, that people are in any way interested in Green policies. Clueless, spineless, shameless cunts, the lot of them. They know if there’s an election they are fucked. Properly fucked, like a 13 year old in Roman Polanski’s chamber.

So, they stay in power, allowing the worst, most corrupt, most incompetent administration this nation has ever known to continue making a fucking balls of everything, just so they can get a few more Green policies brought in. They ignore the fact that the general public are far more worried about important things, like taxes, jobs, unemployment, health, mortgages, pay cuts and everything else brought about by this recession.

It’s very easy not to give a fuck about the climate change scam when you’re worried about how to pay your bills.

A new programme for government? Fuck them. A new way of getting it all wrong, more like.

…that is all.

Greens : “We won’t be recommending that our voters give their second choice to Fianna Fail”

Fianna Fail : “Nothing to worry about, people are free to vote for who they like”.

Greens : “We would like to re-negotiate the Programme for Government”.

Fianna Fail : “Entirely natural given that we’re at the midway point of the administration”.

Greens : “Maybe a general election is what the people want”

Fianna Fail : “The Greens are commited goverment partners”

Greens : “We can no longer tolerate the incompetence of this government and its ministers”

Fianna Fail : “Of course we’re still friends. Sure John Gormley and Brian Cowen had pints in Howl at the Moon last night”

Greens : “Brian Cowen is to being Taoiseach what West Brom are to playing Premiership football”

Fianna Fail : “Every relationship goes through a sticky patch. This is no different”.

Greens : “My God, how could we have whored ourselves for so long? We’ve lost all respect from the public and for what? A little bit of power in what is going to be remembered as the worst government of all time”.

Fianna Fail : “It’s just a little misunderstanding. It’s still good! It’s still good!

Greens : “Fianna Fail are a pack of corrupt, lying, economy fucking, recession bringing, short-sighted, make themselves and their friends rich and let children die cunts”

Fianna Fail : “It’s just a little squabble. It’s still good! It’s still good!”

Everyone : “It’s gone”

Fianna Fail: “We know”

As time goes by the more apparent it becomes that this current government is the most hapless and ineffective administration in living memory.

A Taoiseach with all the leadership skills of a dead guide dog, a Minister for Finance who seems to be more concerned with ensuring the jobs-for-the-boys boys stay protected and unaccountable for the horrendous litany of fraud and deception they have been involved in, a Tánaiste who inspires as much confidence as a blind pilot, and a plethora of cabinet members and front benchers who are so inured to the unscrupulousness that there isn’t even a hint of ruefulness about what’s going.

And alongside them sit the the Greens. John Gormless, Minister for the Environment, who has done nothing but make lightbulbs more expensive. Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, presides over a broadband infrastructure than would make third-world countries laugh and a government that gives away our natural resources to multinationals who want to build contentious pipelines.

It’s been quite clear for some time, if not all time, that there is a culture of cronyism, endemic corruption, bribery, fraud, and profiteering around Fianna Fail. From the top down it’s trickled into the way business is done and nobody bats an eyelid. It’s like we just accept it. ‘Oh, that’s what they do. That’s politics’.

Except in other countries there’s accountability. White collar criminals are sent to jail. Those who systematically defraud financial institutions go to jail. No matter how powerful you are, no matter who you know, no matter how much you earn.

Semi-state bodies are ripe with wrongdoing and misconduct. Yesterday an report into FÁS found that executives basically had carte blanche to do what they wanted with public money. It says ‘hundreds of thousands spent on luxury foreign flights which officials were not entitled to’.

Hundreds of thousands and not one member of the 17 strong board of directors thought to try and put a stop to it. Yet the report does not go as far as asking them to resign. Why should we be so polite? Sack the fuckers. Every single last one of them. And garnish their pensions until they’ve paid off what they spent.

What we’re seeing emerge now is the tip of the iceberg, I’m sure. We had a government awash with money for years, so their friends made money, and their friends made money, and it didn’t really matter how the money was being made once it was being made. And nobody really cared because times were good and SSIAs put money in pockets for holidays and cars and everything else.

It’s coming apart at the seams now. The sly wink and the chuckle about how corrupt our leaders are is not so funny when you lose your job, when thousands every week are losing their jobs, their homes, families being destroyed and everything else.

And all along the Green Party has sat there, twiddling its thumbs, bleating about how they can make a difference in government when quite clearly they can’t. They’ve had the chance to stand up and be counted, to show some balls, to show that they’ve got some morals, but they haven’t.

The longer they remain associated with this current bunch of charlatans and cheats the bigger the stain that will be left on their party.

If they have any credibility, any decency, they should withdraw from government, apologise for helping to facilitate this scandal and baton down their hatches when the public backlash comes. At least they might survive if there’s some sense of them doing the right thing.

As it stands they’re just FF lackies, enjoying the power in Leinster House and with any luck the public will make it quite clear what they think of that when the time comes to vote again.