FORMER TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has advised Poland to keep tight control over financial institutions, saying he wished he had known the importance of doing so when he was taoiseach.
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FORMER F1 DRIVER Ayrton Senna has advised Mark Webber to keep tight control of the steering wheel, saying he wished he had known the importance of doing so when he was alive.
Fucking moron. He’s the leader of the country and he had no idea it was important to keep an eye on the banks. Of course he’s not a moron really, he’s a cute fucking cunt who was just happy to let the banks do what they wanted. It’s easy now to say ‘Oh, if only I’d known!’, but he knew.
Bertie:
If I had known this before 2008, Ireland wouldn’t have suffered. I can blame only myself.
Don’t worry Bertie, I can blame you too. He’s never been quite so forthright in the Irish press, has he? And again we get a hint of things to come when he talks about the Presidential election.
On a lighter note I got my tax bill yesterday. I begrudge these cunts every single cent of it.
He says that, but then comes back later and says…he does not feel responsible for what he described as the “banks’ wrong policy”.
Gobshite, gurrier, gombeen, fucker.
I’d like somebody to take tight control of Bertie’s fucking throat – very tight.
he’ll be president over his dead body.
He didn’t re-elect himself.
And he hinted at the Presidential election. The cowardly fuck, saying it in a foreign country so it seeps back to us.
Drip, drip, drip.
GAH.
“On a lighter note I got my tax bill yesterday. I begrudge these cunts every single cent of it.”
Get used to it me old son,its going to get a lot lot worse than even you think.
ergo;
Property tax a useful option in tackling deficit, says Honohan
PROPERTY is a useful base on which to raise tax “and one we could use now”, Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan said last night.
weelll, you wouldn’t expect a man who couldn’t keep track of his own accounts to know anything about banks, could you? now, if it was foreign exchange problems, that’d be a whole different kettle of brown envelopes..
read the following and think the reason writer can be so optimistic is the first paragraph – young, single, no kids and no mortgage. bit different if you have negative equity, are older and have a family. nice to see someone thinks we might have a chance though
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1028/1224282143887.html
Will they calculate it on the market value or square metre? If they don’t calculate it on value, it will be a sign they have no confidence in the market to rise, hence more reason to believe NAMA is bollocks.
If they calculate it on square meterage then a massive house in Ballsbridge will have the same tax bill as a massive house in the middle of Cavan despite one costing ten times the other.
so your saying being forthright he is greasing the wheels for his presidential bid?
or that as obvious as saying ireland is just as complicit as in the US in the invasion of a “Browntown” (iraq for all didnt get the memo!!!
Seeing as Ahern was the one who led the pack in making sure there were no applicable regulatory controls or sanctions on white collar crime in Ireland I’d say he’s responsible alright.
Its like the Gambinos saying they don’t know anything about garbage disposal.
I hope he does announce a bid for the Presidency. I would bet big money he’d withdraw as soon as he realised that there was a big protest vote against him in the offing.
There mere idea that the little poxbottle thinks he’s in with a shout shows what a Blairite bubble he’s living in.
Very apt that he drinks in a pub called ‘Fagans’. Only one letter away from this;
“If they calculate it on square meterage then a massive house in Ballsbridge will have the same tax bill as a massive house in the middle of Cavan despite one costing ten times the other.”
Thats exactly what they will do,got to keep the d4s happy now, dont they.Same old story,rich get richer yawn yawn. HM there is only one way out and thats a series of all out 1 day strikes and a refusal to pay any furher taxes until the robbers realise that we refuse to accept their version of our salvation. Am i the only one who has seen the list of anglo bondholders who we are being forced to bail out,there has’nt been a mention of this list in any of the “main” stream media in ireland,and why is that, I wonder. sutherlands tentacles are far reaching indeed.
He is just a moron really. A stu stu stupid fucking moron.
From the article:
“But who would suppose that people in such responsible positions, of huge experience, committed such culpable mistakes and didn’t exercise self-control?” Who would suppose? Definitely not aul Bert.. the fucking moron.
“Due to the crash in the US we had to face the reality unexpectedly.” Still blaming De Lehman Brudders, the fucking moron.
Mr Ahern, who describes himself in the interview as “one of the parents” of the Celtic Tiger.. What a complete and utter fucking moron.
And they can fuck off with property tax too. We won’t accept that. No way.
Anne,that bastard is far from stupid. He is 3 steps ahead of the game at all times, a real sewer rat if ever there was one, time someone took out the thrash.
The ex-Minister for Finance, who claims to have attended degree courses in economics in UCD and the LSE, is now saying he wished he knew that you should oversee the operation of banks when you run a country?
At what point exactly is someone finally going to have had enough of him expecting everyone else to be so unutterably stupid that they’ll believe any tripe he cares to say?
Man’s long overdue for a comeuppance.
The humiliation of failing miserably to win a presidential election would be nice.
Hopefully the scummy little spiff will go and fuck off then.
BIG student demo at the Dáil next Wednesday November 3rd. Lots of regular Joe publics going to join it too, including myself.
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
If I believed in god, I’d pray that Bertie the bollix gets struck by lightning.
As it is I hope he suffers in some humiliating, painful way, like having the piles from hell.
Prolapsed, of course, and incurable.
The Blisters of Mercy to whom Bertie has promised control of a 600million children’s hospital will take care of his piles for him I’m sure.
A big pile conveniently situated for the pals of Fianna Fail who have bought up surrounding properties and the Blisters of Mercy kept sweet as well.
They might even break his pelvis for free so he can spawn more Tiger Eggs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE5o79AOXAw
I’m sure you’ll all be glad to hear with regard to the topic of Bertie “it’s my money” Ahern I’ve nothing more to add to the time I met him in Duffy’s Malahide a couple of weeks ago on the way to see Crystal Castles. If looks could kill the cunt would be dead. As a formula 1 fan I am interested in the ..jesus…I just read it…forget it. Vamos Alonso! But I do like Webber too. Hamilton is a cheating cunt. Bertie Ahern and Lewis Hamilton walk into a bar. The barman say’s “get the fuck out”
He’s upto something – Could thisn be a FF ploy to whisper about Bertie as a candidate to make another candidate look better ? Payback for bertie – do you have presidential pardons ?
I have never voted in a presidential election in my life, I have always viewed the position as just a waste of money but I will most certainly vote if that little bollix runs, against him of course. CUNT!!
Ahern is the ultimate cash-money man. Loves the dirt of it on his hands.
If Carlsberg did cunts…
Only one man to support.
Norris!
Property tax – when I bought my house 8 years ago, I had to pay stamp duty because while I was a first time buyer, it wasn’t a new house …
and now I will have to pay property tax as well? I don’t know. We’re in minus money every month, with mounting debt – I think if property tax comes in on top of the rest we won’t be able to pay our mortgage any more. It doesn’t seem to me to be a working solution.
Can I ask a question. Of people with children – do you pay health insurance? What are your opinons on giving it up? Would you feel confident without it?
Sending you a mail on that Jo.
Can I ask a question. Of people with children – do you pay health insurance? What are your opinons on giving it up? Would you feel confident without it?
Jo my son is no longer covered by my health
insurance so I’m dropping it in January as
there is no prospect of me finding work and
I’ll rely on the medical card.
If I was in the same position 10 years ago
I’d check out child-only policies. I heard
that such policies are no longer available
in the U.S. but they might be here.
It’s a head fuck in tight times,as mostly
premiums are down money the drain but there
is always that nagging doubt..what if…?
when it comes to one’s children.
Alternatively one could agitate for a not-for
-profit child only scheme with premiums
priced to reflect the fact that children are
far healthier than adults.
I feel insurance is one of the faces of
the tyrany of fear that blights our society.
Sheep, there’s no policies for children only. And think about it, it’s you who are more likely to fall ill. It makes better sense for you to keep it instead.
The cheapest plans on the market are corporate plans which are not publicly advertised but are available to anyone who asks for one.
Info here: http://www.hia.ie/
On a different note, someone just sent me this:
Priest booking into a hotel asks the receptionist “Is the Porn channel in my room disabled?”
“No,” she replies “it’s just regular”
jo – heh
There were more than a couple of kids knocking about my gaff last evening – cans and stuff – bit boisterous – bins turned over – but no stabbings or riots .
Solution: One by emergency response unit – the armed car + one x paddy wagon + 3 x squad cars .
( had to bring the daughter in – was always going to get messy – fucking blue murder we had )
Not far away – less than ½ mile – scummers with shooters dealing in no go places .
But they got the kids .
its mid-term
Sniffle, what now?
mid-term now ? yes .
What? Hello?
what?
But yes, that selective (safe) response has always been depressing. My husband used to get the local heroine addict scumbags in on Thursdays – intimidate everyone, rob stuff, break stuff, threaten people… they’d always call the guards, who would wander up and stick their noses round the door and hour and a half later… that is til they didn’t get their Christmas cases of goodbwill freebies and then they just stopped coming…
A few years ago I saw two lads hop a fence into a building site on the rob. I called the cops. About 15 minutes later a Garda on foot walked by and didn’t even check it out. I don’t think he even knew about the call. Then about an hour later a squad car pulled up and peered through a crack in the fence and then drove off.
(I didn’t even know cars could do that)
That’ll be like the Garda response unit that attended on that weird family case a year or two ago where an undertaker reported that the odd-bod lad had been in enquiring about child-size coffins.
The Gardai had reported that their car called out to the house but it turned out that they had slowly driven past and hadn’t even bothered to get out.
I think in cities the worst thing that ever happened in policing is the notion that all police officers have to drive everywhere and foot patrols have ceased.
its hard to get to know an area and pick up local intelligence like the cops used to do from shopkeepers and so on when the cops are driving through the place at 30 miles per hour.
Police now regard walking anywhere as a punishment.
Yep Bertie’s up to something – trying to take a bit of heat off the Brians. There’s a ploy in here somewhere.
Police seem to regard actual Policing as punishment these days..
and lest we forget, it was Bertie who softened up the market regulation back at the start of the decade. Or as i like to think of it he let the lions out of the cages – some zoo keeper!
That Hugh Grant is looking rough.
if random images are the order of the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVjTBHEnj04
plus has the added bonus that has nothing to do with the government, bertie, taxes or any of that other bollocks. getting a bit boring
Do not buy anything electrical in Currys/Dixons/PC World.
Life is too short for the fallout.
Not even a robot?
Random?
That’s McNulty from the Wire for God’s sake, abusing his police powers.
That’s a legitimate snooker moce HM as long as he keeps one foot on the floor.
Pot the pink!
moce = move
(probably)
McNulty was awesome. I miss The Wire.
DAMN YOU CLOSURE. YOU PREVENTED SEASON SIX!
at least i got a chance to shoehorn that ad in
That’ his ‘de-fence’?
Good work Porridge. I can see you have a creative eye.
Mcnulty is the only pig I like. And Kima. And Beadie.
@Porridge,
good article on the Irish Times about the guy who wants to stay…but I fear he may be a bit naaive considering what has to change politically back in order for things to be set straight…
Also the irish psyche(Spelling?) regarding not wanting to be seen as poor. Last time I was home I would some someone just by a can of coke and mars bar in a corner shop….and when he hears the price you can almost hear his brain say “Christ, that is expensive…but I don’t want to be seen to be poor, or that I cannot afford this, in front of the other people in the queue”
Once people have the courage to actually say ‘No, I am not paying that” and then just walk off…then things will start to change
hm, am thinking twenty should have a caption competition every once in a while, which led me (tortuously) onto downfall parodies. hasn’t been one done on the irish financial situation yet, but am sure herr kap’n could do something about that.
micosavo, are right about irish psyche in terms of us having a very middle class mentality. reminds me of a bit in a terry pratchett book about captain vimes going back to the street he was born in. something along lines of doorsteps (and houses) being so clean you could eat dinner off them if you could afford food. foremost european exponents of the concept of saving face, usually to the detriment of everything else
bloody programming – usually spend twice as much time going back through comments adding pronouns and grammar as i do writing the original verb/noun only sentences
And how many of you say ‘That’s OK then, I’ll get it somewhere else’ when the shop assistant reminds you that it’ll cost an extra 40c to get your €20 Top-Up in that particular shop?
Oh wait, I forgot. You’re all on Bill-Pay, aren’t you?
Allow me to scurry off back to the working-class who didn’t cause this shit but will pay most dearly for it.
Mea culpa.
Property tax?
Bring it on, then fucking double it.
Serves you right.
Who the fuck do you think you are?
Pricks.
YOU bought this donkey.
You expect me to pay for it.
Fuck you.
heh
bop ’til you drop git
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeTkxy-sid8&feature=related
Captain Hindsight innit…
http://www.google.co.uk/m/url?client=safari&ei=3iPKTJDLAeC5jAeKhp6xAQ&hl=en&oe=UTF-8&q=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdbjw27QPJQ&ved=0CBsQtwIwAg&usg=AFQjCNGfOMjyn8QiTGlKE_vMWtmEe6X3Dg
hehe, saw that episode Manuel…
Looking forward to part two next week…
Long live Cthuluu!
You get charged in Ireland for buying a mobile phone top-up?
Somebody is having a laugh.
Bertrude’s so far removed from reality that he doesn’t ‘get’ the relationship between clouds and rain. What he doesn’t need to know, he doesn’t know. What he needs to be able to deny, he never knew.
In our newspapers and on our TV screens he appeared to be the Taoiseach, but he wasn’t. Not really. He’s a huckster, a used-self salesman, a moral vacuum, a front. He’s a swollen bar of soap left in a bath full of scummy cold water. Someone, anyone, pull the plug and let the water out. We need shut of him and all his kind.