Confiteor Deo

There would have to be a deep rooted and widespread feeling of mea culpa haunting those Eurozone countries where governments have fallen ahead of bailouts or similar foreign (politically) negotiated terms.

It is this sentiment, nearly in the original Roman Catholic closed confession sense, what makes Ireland different from Greece, Portugal and Spain in the intensly debated adequacy of troika aid or influence on an economy and a society, which we have now seen operative long enough to seek comparison with self imposed austerity programmes in various other countries.

In nearly all southern Eurozone members, less than the regular handful of established political parties will woo for at least another 100 years inside institutional corredors and seek to occupy local front page and prime time tv news to pinpoint which party was responsible for not avoiding and / or formally soliciting foreign financing conditions.

This is less innocent than what meets eye, even if one believes that a politician's job description is to talk more than to undertake.  It is what maintains any kind of structural recovery programming of a country inside the traditional political arena or box and thus almost consequently outside a wider perspective of other stakeholders that would represent the general public's interest closer, in a more pragmatic manner and with swifter skill to implement, i.e. better, than political delegates organized in parties generally do.

Public submission of ideas or otherwise referenda at this stage risks being something similar to inviting Real Madrid fans to come in the last 10 minutes of a game to try to invert the score.  As a consequence, patronizing politicians, whether in or out of government will continue to clash with a streetwise protesting society. 

This does not imply politicians are the only ones to blame, after all most of them are (by)products of the same national civil society, nor does is relieve the general public from guilt for allowing matters (not) to evolve further.

It is mostly this what will prolongue (the perception of) a crisis longer than need be and neither deja vu censure motions, early elections nor strikes and massive demonstrations will take us out of the box.  Time to get out of the confessional and out of the box.