From top: Podium for Fine Gael election event at Joe Duffy Motors in Finglas, Dublin this morning; and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the event
Taoiseach Enda Kenny says expert group on 8th amendment will be chaired by an “appropriate woman”. #GE16
— Sarah Bardon (@SarahBardon) February 23, 2016
Right so.
*Whingers out of shot.
Previously: Who Dares Whinge?
Pic: Aidan Delaney and Fergal O’Brien
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So not Amy Schumer then
FG really do think everybody is buying new cars don’t they?
Or, are they trying to project the idea that they are to everybody who can’t, ie. nearly everybody.
An appropriate woman? Any woman but Lucinda probably.
always fun to see the complete lack of awareness inside the BS bubble world, here’s what u missed:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/car-sales-up-over-one-third-as-consumers-spend-more-freely-380797.html
Cool story brah
That figure is up one third on last years figure. Whoopidydooh! What a recovery.
27,106 new cars were licensed for the first time in January, compared with 20,105 last year.
That’s great. I didn’t realise. I’m on my way to buy one now.
PCP OK?
I have an image of fergus ignoring all the numbers after the 161D part of the reg plates that pass him by.
Remember Fergus, Even though not everyone can afford a new card, people who do buy them is A Good Thing.
You did notice the amount of car financing deals going around, didn’t you? People aren’t buying the cars outright, banks aren’t lending money to do that. Instead the manufacturers and their franchises here have stepped in to fill that space. Customers are putting down a relatively small deposit then lease the car for a number of years with the option of buying the car outright at the end of the term. If they don’t then they hand back the keys. So those shiny 16ds you keep talking about aren’t actually outright purchases but leases.
That makes sense.
I’ve genuinely not seen one of those yet. If people are buying them good, but lets not pretend those minuscule numbers make everything else ok.
The majority of people have not felt the recovery, Is the FG campaign aimed solely at the relative few who have?
Actually my comment was directed at Rotide! Car sales may be up but it’s the nature of the transactions that caused the bump not people suddenly finding €40k down the sofa. The leasing options is a win-win for the dealers-a continuous revenue stream and a car with relatively low mileage (read the small print of these deals and you’ve got a restriction on overall mileage) probably coming back to them in a few years ready to be sold as second hand. So I wouldn’t jump for joy at the sales, the mechanism for getting the cars off the forecourt has changed, that’s all.
Yes, I knew it was for rotide, as was mine, aside from my “makes sense” one which was for you.
161 VW Golf Comfortline, outright purchase price €21,000. Lease deal requires €5,912 up front, or roughly 28% of the purchase price.
161 BMW 318d saloon, outright purchase price €41,410. Lease deal requires €12,418.92 up front, or roughly 30% of purchase price.
Not “huge” amounts of cash. But wouldn’t necessarily call it “small” either.
I don’t know what circles you mix in but I don’t know many people running out to buy 318s. So I’d say they’d be more a company car purchase rather than a family runabout…
Adama
That’s why i threw in the VW golf as well. If you want to give me a car you’d like to hear the leasing terms on, fire away. The basic answer you’re gonna get is that a new car is gonna require a minimum 4-5k of money down. As i said, not “small”.
What a joke. Obviously he’s finally twigged that it is actually a big issue and he might lose votes by dodging it.
exactly. and then making an empty coffer of addressing it. . . with no dates or proper details or promise. We’ve seen him go back on actual promises, so he’d hardly stick to this non-promise.
Hahaha! Let’s pretend that the global economy is not literally on the verge of collapse. Every one of the world’s most respected economist’s say it’s going to happen this year. Yeah, buy a new car! Vote FG back in! You blundering twatwagons!
I’ve a pet theory: We’ve been in economic crisis for so long, that its now considered normal.
Discuss.
Why will it collapse? (Genuine, fearful question.)
https://www.google.ie/search?q=global+economic+outlook&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=Y4PMVrCdC4TzPdnejIgN#q=global+economic+outlook&tbm=nws
BMW dealership, coincidence? anyone?
Are you implying that all BMW drivers are twits? If you are then i wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Big Manly Woman?
I’m an appropriate woman. I can easily spare time in my busy schedule to be appointed to this committee.
I dare ya, Enda.
seriously hope everyone that has a vote uses the damn thing, this idiot needs to go, although i do not know where he will spend his retirement he wont be too welcome in Mayo i think
Confused as to what’s exactly wrong with this statement
Why does it have to be a woman? why not the best person for the job regardless of what gender they choose to identify as.
Also whats Enda’s idea of appropriate one who will match what he wants?
Yeah. Why aren’t there more men in charge of making laws about women’s bodies? It works for Isis and the Taleban, and if it’s good enough for them and for 1950s Ireland, surely it’s good enough for us?
WTF do Isis and the Taleban have to do with it
What does it matter the sex of the people making laws?
I expect the people making the laws for us to make decisions not based on their own experiences or preferences but to make them based on what is good for the country and what is good for the people who those laws apply to.
So yes in the case of the 8th it is about women but that does not preclude a man from chairing a committee on it
Stop Stephen. It must be a woman.
+1
Also, I’m pleased to see that we’re deciding that woman is just something you happen to identify as in the context of abortion. If I had an unwanted pregnancy – let’s double our stake and call it life threatening and I choose to identify as a man, would it just go away because I no longer identify as having a womb?
The ‘gender they identify with’ is tongue in cheek my point is it does not matter who creates the laws what matter is that the right laws are created
If it doesn’t matter, then it should be a woman, & there’s no need to argue about it.
True but having women rather than men involved (theoretically) makes sure certain factors are considered that men might not consider. It also gives the committee more gravitas and credibility among feminist groups.
It should be a woman who is in charge. It should be a woman who reports on it and the committee should be mostly women as well.
Well would you say that if you were a woman and reflecting on the track record of men in this country making decisions about your body, you’d think that the chances of a gang of men coming up with the right laws are:
a) excellent;
b) poor?
Given that men do have a track record in this regard. A track record that has resulted in death, disability, women being artifically kept alive while eaten by infection, women being strapped to gurneys and force fed? Personally, speaking as a womb bearer and a mother, I think men’s turn is over.
“The ‘gender they identify with’ is tongue in cheek”
And mean spirited.
“my point is it does not matter who creates the laws what matter is that the right laws are created”
You need the right people to create the right laws. Simple. Humans aren’t robots.
If I was a successful business in my own right I’d never let a politician step foot into my premises and piggy back on my bizacumen
So, not Una Mulally or, on the other end of the spectrum, Breda O’Brien then.
Fair enough.
Imaginer having to stand beside him laughing at his clueless (if not racist) jokes. That second picture is cringe inducing, like something you’d see in a sketch show.
So many ill-fitting suits in that picture as well
Stop Making Sense.
The guy on End’as right is wearing his son’s suit
…& he thinks Enda is a gass man altogether.
He’s framing this picture as we speak for the wall in the good room
An Appropriate Woman sounds like an Oscar Wilde play.
‘When repealing an amendment it is considered bad manners to examine the effects of that amendment. Amendments are like certain types of foreign cheese: one is obliged to admire the holes while disregarding the odour.’
A very bad Oscar Widle play, obviously.
I’m available
You’re inappropriate.
In what way Nidge
Are you a woman Frilly? I’d always assumed you spoke and looked like Paul Galvin.
I’m not that Hairy
Nora Owen, Terry Prone and Joan Burton, it’s a winning combination.
Joe Duffy Motors must have the ministerial car’s contract
Recovery. There is NO recovery. Just hype, spin and massaged statistics. I sure hope people don’t get fooled by this cr*p (…………..again).
and spending the recovery money on new cars is taking all that money straight back out of the economy
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/boost-for-government-as-employment-hits-highest-level-in-7-years-1.2545184
He means: “Not Ivana Baçik.”
A BMW garage. Classic Fine Gael. You’d think they’d at least pick a Ford, Nissan, Toyota, etc garage.
Have they found an appropriate woman yet? They’d better check that she has a vagina just to be sure, to be sure
And absolutely no say as regards her bodily autonomy.
Hope she is politically engaged or this is going right up the spout before it even starts
This is interesting, the HSE medical card processing unit is a tenant of Joe Duffy motors in that same building. How suspicious is it that the HSE rent a building off a Fine Gael supporter ….
Did they move there in the last five years?
Don’t know. Looks modern enough. Some Gaul in him in one door showing off BMWs and upstairs they cut off medical cards. Wonder did he go into the medical card lot ?
Frank Keane for the next motor so..