It's a mystery why Dan Boyle has become the bete noire of the press in the last week or two. It's also difficult to understand the odium heaped on the Green party.
Yes, they are in government with the people who let the bust happen. Yes, they are now propping up the most unpopular administration ever. But if people who are knocking them listened carefully, they would soon realise the Greens are the thin puce line between every taxpayer in the land and financial armageddon.
If you think NAMA is a good idea in its current form; have a go at the Greens. If you think Enda Kenny's inability to discern the correct figure of bad loans from the banks is no problem; have a go at the Greens. And if you believe rescuing the banks should be done on the explicit intention of stoking up a new property bubble within the next 10 years; Dan Boyle and the Greens are not for you.
This is because 4 million people are now totally dependent on the 2,000 members of the Green party to debate, decide and propose amendments to Brian Lenihan's legislation on NAMA. This means, the only political organisation in this country democratic enough to allow its members to steer its policies has, by some miracle, been given the chance to materially affect legislation which all the other parties are unwilling to improve on (in the hope they will bring down the government and get into power) and that Fianna Fail TDs and members are just silently, pathetically, accepting: simply doing what they are told.
So if you care about Ireland's survival as a sovereign nation, or whether you and your children will be paying punitive levels of tax for the next 30 years in order to salvage bank shareholders; get down on your knees and thank Dan Boyle and the Greens, because nobody else is doing anything to help you!
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