This little piggy

For once Brian ‘this little piggy went to market’ Cowan moved with alarming speed
during the recent dietary disaster. What we have to ask is was this for the good of
the general public or was it because when he was told there was trouble with the
pigs he thought Mary ‘this little piggy stayed at home’ Coughlan, Mary ‘this little
piggy had roast beef’ Harney, Micheál ‘this little piggy had none’ Martin and John
‘this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home’ Gormley were in the shit
again. We shall have to wait for the biography to find out.

Whatever the reason he did act fast, but now is being attacked for his unusually
un-sloth like reactions to crisis’. I can’t bring myself to disagree with the
decision, I am for transparency in government, and I am not talking about Mary
Harney’s underwear, but I can’t help but laugh a hearty side splitting laugh at Alan
Reilly’s comment that leaving the meat on the shelves would have resulted in them
being ‘lambasted for being irresponsible, and in all probability we’d be out of a
job.’ Alan, none of them should still have a job, what harm would a few contaminated
sausages have done to the government’s reputation.

Well the hams are back on the shelves and so there is nothing to spoil our
Christmas, except of course spiralling unemployment, growing repossessions, a health
service that won’t be able to cope with the winter rush and of course charity
collectors.

I am not uncharitable, even though Scottish, but I would enjoy being able to walk
more than twenty feet along the street without some fool waving a collection box,
clipboard or scratch card in my face. Even going into my local supermarket I am
forced to pay two euro’s extra for my six pack so that some snotty kid can put it in
a bag for me, and then a further two to the pathetic looking woman collecting at the
door.

I don’t want to sound like scrooge, but let’s face it, not being a TD, I have to
pay my own postage for my Christmas cards, and not being a TD, if I was rich enough
to have a second home in Dublin, I would have to pay for it myself.

The festive season is upon us so I am going to stop complaining now and look on
the bright side. Nope sorry I can’t find one, perhaps next week.