Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules

E Class

2»

Comments

  • #32
    Cecil Mor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭Cecil Mor


    I wonder what people thought when Dev bought a british car!!

    2057949784_93adca8b36.jpg

    Well surely if Enda was to have gotton the equivalent to Dev's motor he'd be driving round in a Phantom?

    Looks like Enda went for the cheaper option.
    Fu@kin' FFers were always the same!!


  • #33
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    it's just another case of the haugheys-"we must tighten our belts!!!"(say this in an INda accent), and then go out and get a flashy car-really setting a good example. To all those who say he needs a car to reflect his status, as leader of a TINY, bankrupt state, he should have got a modest family saloon, preferably an ex-demo to save a few bob. Most of the leaders and politicos of the scandinavian countries drive either very modest motors, or drive their own car. Its just more gravy train crap and sends out all the wrong signals at a time when restraint is badly required.


  • #34
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Wow, A lot of the FG front bench online tonight condoning the boss' new wheels.

    The leader of Ireland is not the same as the leader of Britain, he is at a minimal risk of any harm coming to him from anything other than gout from the fine high living he enjoys, ergo he does not need a top of the range Jag.

    We are being told that schools need to get rid of teachers, hospitals have to treat the rising population with less medical staff and that the truly needing in society will be left behind for the sake of the country's financial "rejuvenation" and this all coming from the lips of a man who then is getting a car worth a holy fortune! I know it single handedly will not be the largest cost to the state this year, but it all adds up!

    A person on min. wage BEFORE tax is on

    €8.65x40 = €346 a week
    €346x52 = €17,992 a year

    it takes six years pre tax for them to earn what he is getting from the tax Euros of our country!


  • #35
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    EPM wrote: »
    If people want to speak about politics instead of the car then they are in the wrong forum.

    Ahem. Leave the politics out of it or be infracted.


  • #36
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    EPM wrote: »
    If people want to speak about politics instead of the car then they are in the wrong forum.
    it's a nice colour. what mpg does it do?. what size are those alloys?. how fast can it go? does it have an ejector seat? ahhh feck it, I'm off to politics.


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,805 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    dev100 wrote: »
    Captains of industry if I were to use your reference .... He is a leader of an insolvent company .

    He is the leader of a country though. Also there is no way that this Jag is bullet proof or anything special as suggested in the thread earlier, its surely a pretty standard showroom model and most likely a diesel too.
    If you were the leader of a country, what would you wish to drive?


    Car costs are a minor detail. If it costs 100k retail, 35k of that is vrt. 10 to 15k vat meaning that at the end of the day, the car only costs the gov 50k.

    Again motor tax is not an issue and the price of fuel really doesnt matter either as its nearly all tax anyway.


  • #38
    skelliser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    LINK PLEASE?


  • #39
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,717 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    mickdw wrote: »
    Car costs are a minor detail. If it costs 100k retail, 35k of that is vrt. 10 to 15k vat meaning that at the end of the day, the car only costs the gov 50k..

    ..wake up and join the rest of us: it didn't cost the govt anything - it cost ME and YOU 50k.

    It's disgraceful.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #40
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,717 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    I see OP has edited his announcement.

    So, has EK got the Jag, or not ?

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #41
    Vanderbilt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Vanderbilt


    galwaytt wrote: »
    I see OP has edited his announcement.

    So, has EK got the Jag, or not ?

    Somehow I'd say he still has the same car.

    Unlike his two immediate predecessors, Enda Kenny the man runs on common sense, and is unlikely to splash 100k plus on flash motor in this climate.


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,805 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    galwaytt wrote: »
    ..wake up and join the rest of us: it didn't cost the govt anything - it cost ME and YOU 50k.

    It's disgraceful.

    So it seems he doesnt even have the car. Anyway, 50k on car for the taoiseach which would likely last a number of years and no doubt be sold on for 20k or so in a number of years, you need to get real. these are figures that could be sustained by many households never mind a state. You need to look at the real scandals that are going down, the stuff that IS bankrupting US.


  • #43
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    Vanderbilt wrote: »

    Unlike his two immediate predecessors, Enda Kenny the man runs on common sense,

    Like spending €4bn on a bank worth €28m? Lol. Maybe he's waiting for a fancy plate number to go with the car. Like 12 - D-8055 or something


  • #44
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    selfobsessed wrote: »
    No he still has a 2007 E class Mercedes


    ^^ Thats currently post # 1

    The rest is therefore utter sh1te :)


  • #45
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,817 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    selfobsessed wrote: »
    No he still has a 2007 E class Mercedes

    The above is now the first post in this thread, it clearly has been edited into a zombie state so anyone coming late to the party hasn't a clue what's going on.

    Could be time for the humane killer.


  • #46
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Thread is stupid/pointless without the original post.

    Thread closed.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement