anglo 29 September 2010
It can’t have escaped the attetion of the whole world now that the Irish Prime minister seems to have been under the weather while being interviewed on radio one morning during his party’s annual conference – everyone from Leno in the States and HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU in the UK have had a pop.
Meanwhile the government is in session again and the nation is being told that the bailout of Anglo Irish Bank (which we now collectively and reluctantly own) will cost many more billions than at first thought. Yes, I did say BILLIONS there…
SO this morning a cement mixer lorry, with ANGLO TOXIC BANK painted on it, was driven into the gates of Leinster House (the main Government building) as a protest. Cue many many jokes on twitter and beyond – “Maybe Cowen ordered a mixer for the whole cabinet!!” said one
“So you get arrested if you crash a truck into the Dail but not if you crash the entire economy?” said another.
One person was delighted that there was an actual gate involved in what is now dubbed CEMENTGATE.
Another opined the politicians ‘will be stuck between a rock and a hard place when it sets’.
And a local paper in Clare announced ‘MORTAR ATTACK ON LEINSTER HOUSE’.
We live in interesting times, my friends.
