Bertie and the wider FF party should have been making hay for the last ten - fifteen years while the going was good. But instead of that they just told us things were good and we believed it. Now when we've hit a rough patch their eyes aren't on the economy ball at all, they're eyeing the crowd up for a way out of their own troubles.
If Bertie were floated on the stock market I don't think he'd be worth that much.
While I have no Gra mór for wooden Enda and his party of moaners or dirty socialist Labour I think either would do a better job then FF and Bertie. I don't think the correct question to ask is "could anybody do any better?" rather it should be "can anybody do any worse?" and save letting Joe Higgins run riot in the Dept of Finance I think the answer to the latter question is NO.