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"How much is a loaf of bread and a litre of milk?"

  • 13-05-2002 6:04pm
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    sceptre
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    (don't normally watch TV3 news due to a lack of actual news but I just caught this - someone's been reading old Empire magazines)

    Reporter was asking all the party leaders how much a loaf of bread and litre of milk were. Here's what they had to say:

    Bertie Ahern (FF)
    Insisted he knew how much they were - wouldn't say how much, even on the third try (decided he wasn't going to play games)

    Michael Noonan (FG)
    Doesn't do any of his own shopping (wife does in Limerick apparently, must make it inconvenient when they're staying in Dublin and want to eat) so hasn't a notion.

    Ruari Quinn (Lab)
    Offered figures - not too right but not too wrong. Doesn't keep any milk in the house (the secret's out - Bord Bainne are evil)

    Mary Harney (PD)
    Usually buys some kind of flat roll (unleavened perhaps:D)

    Gerry Adams (SF)
    Bought bread yesterday so remembers the price (in sterling)

    Trevor Sargent (GP)
    Knows how much they are (and got the amounts roughly right) - likes to make his own bread though.


    As always, with politicians, it's not what they said but how they said it. Relevancy to your vote really depends on how necessary you feel it for our elected types to remember prices of essentials.

    Worth watching in the later news if you're doing nothing else (it's funny from the start). I've my own ideas on the most pathetic response but I'm not going to reach a new low by slagging off politicians on whether they know how much a loaf of Brennans is.


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