As sure as night follows day, when scandal and corruption raise their ugly heads there will always be a journalist ready and willing to write a ‘We’re all to blame’ article.
Irish Examiner columnist Michael Clifford, writing about the Anglo tapes, is the journalist in this case.
According to Clifford a lack of public morality caused by the vacuum created after the ‘moral guidance’ of the Catholic Church disappeared is principally responsible for the corruption within Anglo Irish Bank.
Public morality didn’t, and still doesn’t, appear to have much purchase in this State.
With little pressure to observe proper standards coming from the electorate, how can we expect that public morality is going to be observed in institutions such as banks?
So there you have it folks; the blame does not lie with the corrupt politicians, nor with the corrupt bankers, nor with the corrupt regulators but the immoral (and presumably corrupt) electorate.