An Unlikely Priority
Reacting to reports that the Irish Labour leader, Pat Rabbitte, is resigning I clicked on the RTE website for the latest. Their news story links to a profile of Mr Rabbitte dating back to the last election. Under the heading "Main Priorities" there are three headings - Getting There - his policy on transport, and Getting A Roof - his policy on housing. But it was the third heading "Getting Laid" which caught my attention. It purports to commit the Dublin South West TD to slashing VAT on condoms.
During the drama surrounding the downfall of Albert Reynolds, the then Guardian Correspondent David Sharrock noted that the future Labour leader had made a speech to the Dail which was "the first time in history that a Rabbitte had pulled a red herring out of a top hat". But since I can't believe reducing tax on prophylactics was ever high on his list of priorities, I am working on the presumption that the RTE profile has been targetted by a hacker.
UPDATE: That serves me right - I didn't realise that this was old news, and that Pat Rabbitte had made this his number three priority. Thanks very much to commenters for putting me right. It's fair to say that I've pulled an old red herring out of my hat.
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The site was not hacked!!!
The Ray D'Arcy show on Today FM lead a campagin to cancel the VAT on Condoms!!
Condoms are not cheap and they believed that it was a public health issue and by removing the VAT condoms would cost less and therfore be more accessable to people on lower wages e.g students and young people!!!