There are two elections on the horizon.

Of course there is the American one. I confess I am looking forward to this one as the outcome is bound to be interesting. The outcome is really a foregone conclusion – whichever side wins there are going to be calls of foul, Russian interference, vote rigging and whatever else they can throw in. Trump has already declared himself the winner on the grounds that if Harris gets the vote, that it will all have been rigged by the Deep State.

Here in little old Ireland we have an election looming too. This promises to be about as exciting as watching raindrops on a window. Again the result is a foregone conclusion.

There re three main parties here. The Greens and Labour have been almost wiped out as they were never forgiven for propping up coalitions in the past, leaving just Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin. The latter were leading the polls but after a series of scandals [no doubt orchestrated by FF/FG] have dropped way down. This means that either FF or FG will come out on top. Whichever tops the table is irrelevant as the winner will immediately form a coalition with the other and we’ll end up precisely where we are now. The only question is who they will choose to finalise the coalitions numbers to form a gubmint. Please God, not the Greens.

I saw an interesting item recently. It was on the pensions and allowances to be paid to retired politicians here. They reckon this to be in the region of €4 million in the first year alone. Who wouldn’t fancy an annual pension of €70,000 a year for doing nothing?

It’s no wonder they crawl over each others’ backs to get into gubmint?

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Q: When did you last hold an election?

A: Just before bleakfast.