I presume it is me you were replying to ?
Are you one of these Irish people, assuming you are actually Irish, that thinks we are different to the rest of the so called civilised and perhaps not so civilised world?
I remember people like that not so long ago telling us house prices would never collapse in Ireland simply because they had never collapsed before.
We were different don't you know.
The sweeping changes happening across Western world will not avoid our shores, most especially when the moronic politicians here, the lapping media and the useful dogooder idiots are enacting the same course of action that has failed miserably elsewhere.
Added to that ask yourself a few questions.
Where were the right wing parties in Germany 20 years, hell 10 years ago?
They were no where except perhaps in a few areas in the former East Germany.
Where were the right wing parties in The Netherlands?
They were nowhere near power.
Oh and the most striking of all.
Where were the right wing parties in Sweden, the socialist mecca, the socialist shining light.
The thing is people like you will probably be still telling us we are riding a deadhorse when your donkeys have bitten the dust at Beechers Brooke.
The only thing that worries me is will our Beechers Brook be just the long forecast economic downturn or will be mass terrorist event.