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Gerrry Adams on BBC

  • 27-01-2011 7:34am
    #1
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭


    Did anyone see G. Adams being interviewed on BBC. His knowledge on the budget increases was embarrassing, didn't know how VAT was changed or child benefit changes. I hope some of the media in the republic report on this because it was detrimental to SF.


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  • #2
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Vat was not changed?

    Was he interviewed in relation to UK or Irish budget :confused:


  • #3
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Story Here

    'I don't know' -- Gerry exposed again for lack of basic economic knowledge

    Gerry Adams was exposed again yesterday for his lack of basic economic knowledge as he continued to damage his party's credibility.
    Mr Adams didn't know the impact of the cuts on child benefit or the VAT rate.
    The latest gaffe came a day after he managed to create a €14bn black hole in the Sinn Fein economic plans by failing to say where the party would get the money from to run the country this year, as he proposed to abandon the EU-IMF bailout.
    Mr Adams was caught out again yesterday when didn't know how much child benefit was being cut by this year.
    "The cut in child benefit across social welfare if Fine Gael have their way will be €18 right across all of that.
    "Everybody that's earning less than, ah, around 80pc is going to be hit by this new charge that they have ah brought in," he said.
    When asked by the BBC if he knew what child benefit was at present, he replied: "No I don't, no".
    Turning to VAT, Mr Adams was asked what it will increase by.
    "Well, ah, we don't know that yet because it's all . . ." he said.
    Asked again if he knew the present VAT rate, he replied: "I don't, no".

    Irish Independent


  • #4
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭femur61


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Vat was not changed?

    Was he interviewed in relation to UK or Irish budget :confused:

    Irish budget.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPQG8nLNzQM


  • #5
    danbohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭danbohan


    femur61 wrote: »
    Did anyone see G. Adams being interviewed on BBC. His knowledge on the budget increases was embarrassing, didn't know how VAT was changed or child benefit changes. I hope some of the media in the republic report on this because it was detrimental to SF.

    terrible when politicians cant get their head around economics is it not , mind you its hardly as bad as our current finance minster telling us we had turned a corner or that our banks were fundamentally sound or we would have a soft landing .


  • #6
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    danbohan wrote: »
    terrible when politicians cant get their head around economics is it not , mind you its hardly as bad as our current finance minster telling us we had turned a corner or that our banks were fundamentally sound or we would have a soft landing .

    You could go back even further Dan, back Bernie announcing there wasn't going to be a recession, or ministers telling us three years ago that there was never a better time to buy a house, or some ****wit deciding Anglo was worth saving.


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