In my capacity as devil advocate, thinking, erroneously, that its just too easy to take the unmerciful piss out of the Greens for this deal, I keep on trying to think of something (anything!) positive in this turn of events - and I can’t find one. And I’ve tried.

I knew one of the Green TDs years ago, in a professional capacity. It actually pains me physically to see their face on the TV so much these days. Much has been said about Trev’s integrity in standing down as leader, which makes me laugh out loud everytime I hear it said. Why did he make the promise in the first place? He sells out every principle that his party is supposed to hold dear, gone back on every promise they made in their election campaign and they say he’s got integrity? But don’t the Green’s not really believe in a Party Leader in the first place?!

Any way, from my experience of this Green TD (in ain’t Trev) - I should have guessed that they would be capable of this. I’m not angry at the Greens for doing the deal by way. As others have said here, it just goes to prove what I always suspected of the organisation (and knew in the case of this one TD): they are just profoundly middle class.

Can I also say Conor, that you’ve written many funny things for this blog, but the line It is simply not possible to collaborate with a national construction policy that is skewered in favour of the construction industry - and not the state’s citizens - and call yourself left-wing or liberal simply because you cycle to the spot where you fuck people in the ass. has to be one that has made me laugh the most.

They’re Green alright - even their policies are bio-degradable.