Bertie is a great example to us all

Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on September 26th, 2006

So the Taoiseach has remained tight lipped about the money he is alleged to have received despite lots of people suggesting he really ought to make a statement about it. He might say something later today. Or tomorrow. Or he might not.

Let’s face it the longer it goes on without him saying anything the more suspicious it looks. If there was nothing to hide then he’d just come out and say ‘This is what happened, this is why it doesn’t break any rules and now you can trust me as the leader of the country and not think I’m just a typical spiv politician taking back-handers here, there and everywhere’.

What’s the delay for? Is it to think up a really good story?

“What happened was I was just standing around outside the Spar and this bloke came up and just gave me the money. Honest. He said he had too much and he didn’t want it back or he didn’t want any favours, political or otherwise, for it. And that’s it. I swear. I never seen him before and I never seen him after. I used the money to buy Christmas presents for orphans. Cross me heart.”

In one way though I’m happy he’s gone down the road he has. Next time the Gardai catch me with a suitcase full of unmarked, non-consecutive bills and ask me where I got them, I’ll just say “I’m not answering what I got for my holy communion money, my confirmation money, what I got for my birthday, what I got for anything else. What I got personally in my life, to be frank with you, is none of your business”.

This is the example the leader of our country is setting. What a man he is. Truly he will go down in history as one of Ireland’s greatest statesmen.

“Did you kill that man?”

“I’m not answering who I killed on my communion day, my confirmation day, my birthday or any other day”.

“Is that your shipment of cocaine we discovered?”

“I’m not answering what cocaine I smuggled on my communion, for my confirmation, for my birthday….”

If it’s all right for the politicians then it’s surely all right for the rest of us.