Resign Ahern, you cunt
Posted on | September 27, 2006 | 1 Comment
So the Taoiseach received £40,000 from friends but he says he had ‘broken no codes – ethical, tax, legal or otherwise’.
Apparently he always regarded them as a ‘debt of honour’ that he would repay with interest. To date he hasn’t repaid any of the money or any of the interest.
He said he accepted the money to provide for his children’s education which, I have to admit, is right up there with the buying Christmas presents for orphans excuse. The man was a government minister for fuck’s sake. Hardly a poorly paid job.
He span a sob story about all the bills he had to pay but, you know, we all have bills to pay. We all struggle at times and if we do we go to a bank and get a loan and we repay the loan and the interest or we end up in worse trouble than we were in before. We don’t all have consortia of businessman friends who will provide us with money and allow us go 13 years without paying any of it back.
But maybe we’re being too cynical. There’s no reason why these people people got together to provide a loan to the Minister for Finance beyond mere friendship.
I can just imagine Des Richardson ringing around.
“Hey, Dave McKenna! Poor old Bertie appears to be having a hard time. Would you like to contribute something to a loan we’re going to give him that he’s never going to pay back just because he’s our good old pal? You would! I thought so. What a wonderful altruistic bunch we are. Thanks a million, I’m going to ring around some other people you don’t know at all to see if they’ll give some money too. Bye, Dave, you generous, not looking for anything in return fella!”
Check out Gavin’s blog who has some info about his generous benefactors, as do the folk at Irish Election.
Let’s remember that Bertie is the man who stood at the funeral of this country’s biggest ever political crook and conman and lauded him like he was the greatest man to have ever walked. Now, I don’t expect him to speak badly of a man at his funeral, no matter what his past, but to try and paint a different picture of a politician who lived the high life, paid for by the people of Ireland, while the rest of us suffered was just offensive. We were supposed to forget because he was dead? Bollocks to that.
Let’s also remember that Ahern shafted Junior Transport Minister, Ivor Callely, because a building contractor involved in public contracts had painted his house for free in the early 90s.
Now, we’re supposed to think that it’s not ok for someone to paint your house but it is ok to accept payments of £40,000 because his children needed an education? They could have gone to a public school, couldn’t they? They could have gone to a VEC post Leaving Cert, couldn’t they? Did they really need money to pay for their education when there were plenty of alternatives available to a man who claimed to be in dire straits financially?
Of course not. The whole thing stinks of bullshit. All of it. I don’t believe a word he says. If you can’t afford a private school then you send your kids somewhere else. You don’t borrow money from a group of ‘friends’.
When the first whispers of this emerged last week the leader of our country said:
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.
It’s scandalous. He is a public figure. He is the elected leader of the country and to be frank with you what he got personally is our business especially given the history of his political party.
If there was nothing wrong about the situation he would have addressed it there and then. Definitively. Without raising further suspicions by refusing to answer legitimate questions about money he had received.
It has taken him too long to concoct the bollocks story he’s given us. I don’t believe him. I don’t believe his story. I’m now sick to the fucking back teeth of the horseshit we’re fed week in week out by this government who consistently fuck us all in the arse with absolute impunity and have steadfastly remained exempt from punishment. They do what they want and the consequences are almost non-existent.
I’ve said it before. It’s our own fault. The fact people have a few bob to spend these days means they’ll put up with being ripped off for beer, for cigarettes, for clothes, for groceries, for services, ripped off driving from one side of Dublin to the other, watching the fat cats get fatter and fatter. Our fault entirely.
I hope what this does though is show people the real picture. This government is a fucking disgrace from top to bottom. And now we’ve seen why. If this is the leadership – belligerent, obnoxious and too far removed from the common man – then how the fuck can we expect anything different.
Time to resign, Bertie. They used to call you Teflon. Now the shit is beginning to stick and not before time.
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April 3rd, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
Old Blogger its time you crawled back under that rock with all the other freeloading loafers. Oh and dont forget the mouthwash.