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Bertie Bertie quite contrary...

  • 18-05-2006 8:38pm
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    DublinWriter
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    …how does your state airline grow?

    Pretty well thanks to the efforts of Willie Walsh et al, the people you recently declared under Dàil privilege as trying to ‘steal’ Aer Lingus from the Irish people.

    But ol’ Willie brought Aer Lingus from the brink of bankruptcy to become a profitable state enterprise.

    Remember how the banks were going to pull Aer Lingus’ credit lines back in 2002 and bring them to bankruptcy? Probably not, the Sabena story means nothing to you.

    Eaten bread is soon forgotten, as you will soon seen with the whole SSIA initiative when you call the general election for May 2007 when the last of the SSIAs mature.

    But back to ‘stealing’ Aer Lingus. Bertie, aren’t you all for trying to privatise Aer Lingus now? Selling back to the Irish people what was theirs in the first place? As far as I know, that’s ‘stealing’ defined.

    But the funny thing is, if you had accepted Willie’s original offer in the first place last year, you would have gotten a better price. Rising fuel costs and a higher interest rate mean that nowadays the price you’ll get from the sale of Aer Lingus will be at least 25% less than you could have gotten from Willie Walshes consortium.

    Aer Lingus employees make up most of your constituency, but he’s unpopular because he actually made them work for a living.

    But at the end of the day, you have your fat backside and a Dàil seat to park it on to protect.


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