Bertie has to wait for Lord Mayor's job!

TheLastMohican

Who is circulating these fantasies? Fancy letting him loose with the 'petty cash' key!

Bertie's mayor hopes dashed by cutbacks


By Michael Lavery
Monday September 24 2012

ANY hopes Bertie Ahern may have held of becoming Dublin's directly elected Lord Mayor will have to wait until 2019.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan has shelved the plan -- first mooted by the Fianna Fail-Green coalition on cost grounds.

And the move could push some of the big names linked to the job out of the race on age grounds.

Mr Ahern will be 68 by the time the idea gets the go-ahead, as will MEP Gay Mitchell, who has also been mentioned as a possible mayor.

The elected mayor had been expected to be given powers straddling Dublin's four local authorities.

Hints

Former Environment Minister John Gormley announced the plan for an elected mayor in 2009 and Mr Ahern had given strong hints he would be interested if the mayor was given real powers.

"I think it would be a fascinating job for an experienced politician who would understand local government and understand local politics," he told guests at one book launch shortly after the announcement.

"And not mentioning myself, but I think it would be an excellent job."

Mr Ahern also said he would be against "celebrity" candidates and a directly elected mayor should be someone who has a proven record in politics.

It had been expected that the newly elected mayor would have a salary equivalent to that of a Government Minister, which was cut to €169,000 by the Government in March, 2011.

An internal report on local government reform has concluded that "a directly elected mayor for Dublin cannot simply be bolted as an additional layer of governance on top of the existing local government in Dublin".

For such an office to be meaningful, it would require a change in the current structures and the office would need to be given more far-reaching powers, functions and budget, the study concluded.

TheFruitarian

The only Lord Mayors job he'll get is as a lounge boy out in Swords.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

I saw Bertie the other day in drumcondra driving a 08 avensis.

he can't drive for ****.

he was coming out of a car park and had a woman tell him how close he was to the wall etc.

he was right in front of me turning onto the main road and I held a nice evil stare at him and he had the head down low and his face was as red as a tomato !

ejmaztec

He should try for the Lord Mayor of Lagos job, as I understand he's quite popular there.

vicwatson

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

I saw Bertie the other day in drumcondra driving a 08 avensis.

he can't drive for ****.

he was coming out of a car park and had a woman tell him how close he was to the wall etc.

he was right in front of me turning onto the main road and I held a nice evil stare at him and he had the head down low and his face was as red as a tomato !

Think he only passed his test recent enough, I mean he hardly had need for a car when he was chaffeur driven everywhere for yonks !

Skid

I would love it if he ran for Office again. He is so delusional he probably thinks he would be elected by acclaim. he might finally realise how much people hate him.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

vicwatson wrote: »

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

I saw Bertie the other day in drumcondra driving a 08 avensis.

he can't drive for ****.

he was coming out of a car park and had a woman tell him how close he was to the wall etc.

he was right in front of me turning onto the main road and I held a nice evil stare at him and he had the head down low and his face was as red as a tomato !

Think he only passed his test recent enough, I mean he hardly had need for a car when he was chaffeur driven everywhere for yonks !

sorry it was a mondeo no avensis !

he may have lost his driver but there are still gardai sitting outside his house !

ilovesleep

Hopefully he'll die soon and he won't get to see 2019.

But then bad pr1cks like that will go on and live forever tormenting everyone.

Remember everyone, we're up sh1ts creek because of Berties economy policies. And FG are banging the nails in the coffin.

juan.kerr

TheLastMohican wrote: »

a directly elected mayor should be someone who has a proven record in politics.

So he's just ruled himself out then. Or else he plans to run against the only politicial with a worse record - Brian Cowan.

Birneybau

I would love if he did run for Mayor.

Be some wake up call for the deluded cnut.

dvpower

ilovesleep wrote: »

Hopefully he'll die soon and he won't get to see 2019.

Nasty piece of work (both you and him).

bluecode

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

sorry it was a mondeo no avensis !

he may have lost his driver but there are still gardai sitting outside his house !

That's because he really does need protection these days. I'd have a few choice words for him if I saw him. As for the Mayor job. I suppose some fools might vote for him. But I doubt he could appear at a meeting without someone throwing rotten eggs and tomatos at him!

ilovesleep

dvpower wrote: »

Nasty piece of work (both you and him).

Bertie himself posting as dvpower.

juan.kerr

ilovesleep wrote: »

Bertie himself posting as dvpower.

I thought he had 2 secretaries to do his posting.

Littlehorny

vicwatson wrote: »

Think he only passed his test recent enough, I mean he hardly had need for a car when he was chaffeur driven everywhere for yonks !

Saw him giving an interview once about the cost of motoring being so dear in this country and the entitled prick had to admit he hadnt even owned a car since 1988!

ilovesleep

juan.kerr wrote: »

I thought he had 2 secretaries to do his posting.

One of Bertie's cock suckers so.

Zebra3

ilovesleep wrote: »

. Remember everyone, we're up sh1ts creek because of Berties economy policies. And FG are banging the nails in the coffin.

And because of the people who voted for them.

ejmaztec

ilovesleep wrote: »

One of Bertie's cock suckers so.

That's why he has a rain-hat sewn into his flies, so the cock-suckers don't get their head wet, he's considerate I'll give him that.

Spread

I honestly believe that he is delusional. Like his mentor, he created a personality cult for his brown nosers ......... all the time, like a Dickensian character, counting his hoard and looking for the next freebie. This emotionally void Machiavelli has now only got his pints of Bass to feed his, er, personal needs.

Yamanoto

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

he may have lost his driver but there are still gardai sitting outside his house !

Stakeout now though, not close protection.