Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)

Machiavellian descriptive narrative and deceptive adjectives abound from the Government this week, with words such as "disaster" creating illusions of doomsday scenarios every time the fiscal compact treaty is mentioned. Doubt over future funding is the stick the Government is using with which to beat the people into submission by 31 May. Surely lessons should have been learned by this stage about the aftermath of signing treaties when ambiguities abound. What a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.

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