Is he worth it???

[Mentalman]

Picked this up off politics.ie, it's in FInnish, but one of the resident Finns over there claims it says their premier is on 10 grand a month.

http://www.finlex.fi/fi/esitykset/he/2006/20060093
http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=28620&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120&sid=123934aabb95995f222714b572c07191

[Bogball XV]

€279,000: US President George Bush

€270,000: Tánaiste Brian Cowen

€268,000: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

€261,000: German Prime Minister Angela Merkel

€240,000: Irish cabinet ministers

€240,000: French Prime Minister Francois Fillon

€210,000: Australian Prime Minister John Howard

€192,000: Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt

€123,000: Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende

€122,000: Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Norway has same population as Ireland).

€49,500: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

[deiseach]

Well it was hard especially as he was trying to rescue the economy after the total f*ck up caused by FF in the 1977 election campaign and the economic recession of the 80/81

It was hard. And he made it worse, much worse.