When your core source of funding is an institute whose ‘assets’ consist of the non-performing debts of bankrupt nations, the suffering of millions is inevitable. The Irish government will continue to speak of a ‘solution’ and ‘recovery’, as if the former and the latter are possible within the current system of democracy. They will continue to lie fully aware that the only solution (default) is the very thing they won’t do and therefore they will prolong everyone’s suffering, instead of minimising it.