Dennis the Menace has it right.

I loved the Beano comic when I was a kid.I came across it again last Sunday when it fell from The Irish Mail newspaper.
In Dennis the Menace Fan Club page the question is posed "How can I tell if a politician is lying "?The reply is "Body language is your friend--if they're lying their lips will be moving."
I thougt of this when I read the comments of certain bankers regarding people with mortgage arrears which they cannot pay,one of which was to the effect that one bank alone would be evicting between 3.000 to 5,000 owners.And this is only one Bank.
I also thought of it when I heard another Banker say that the only circumstances in which they write off secured debt is where there has either been a bankruptcy or liquidation of the owner and no or less than full funds are available to meet the debt.
This of course is a total nonsense as the law governing insolvency discounts the debt and there is absolutely nothing the Bank can do about it.
And if memory serves me right both Charlie Haughey and Garrett Fitzgerald had debt written off in their day'
I also thought of all the praise his political colleagues heaped on Alan Shatter for the utter brilliance and cleverness of his breathtaking foresight in the area  of  law reform and important legislation enacted.
All this bullshit about pips and peps and all the insolvency legislation makes no difference to those driven to despair by impossible demands from not only State owned banks but also a myriad of other Government Departments trying to squeeze the last drop of blood from stones long since parched by arid policies.Shatter for all his alleged brilliance has done not one iota for these people.
This Government is positively Cromwellian in practise,
It has presided over mass unemployment ,mass emigration,mass sale of huge chunks of the country to outsiders,mass loss of hope ,mass suicide ,and mass breakdown of the rural hinterland where seventy year olds have to cycle over 30 miles at night to gain shelter and where hundreds of thousands of rural isolated are hunkering in fear behind barricaded doors hoping it won#t be their turn tonight.
And now Mass eviction is imminent.The Government is cracking  the whip over the Central bank who is passing the pressure onto the commercial Banks to do this.
When you consider that the very same taxpayers whose money was used to bail out the very same banks who are now about to evict them you must realise the outrageous nature of the betrayal.
In the Pat Kenny debate before the General Election ,when questioned on their attitude to eviction the current Taoiseach said "Guarantee you won't lose your home "and the current Tanaiste said "Head off the Bailiffs "
I'd have to say that Dennis has it right.