Monday 17 June 2013

Harry Browne - The Frontman, Bono.

You have to be innately suspicious of people who are seen to champion "good causes", very publicly  -  even when they minimise their own tax liability while simultaneously advising governments to divert more of other people's exchequer money to developing countries.

U2 upped sticks with much of its operation when the artists' tax exemption was capped in Ireland, some years back. 

 Interestingly, Bono once defended the very person who introduced the exemption, Charlie Haughey - just when some sections of the Irish public belatedly realised what a corrupt shyster the man was.

  But Bono has been known to rub shoulders with some very unsavoury characters, in his endless quest for ego-massaging publicity... he's Mother Teresa with silly yellow shades.  (See book cover.)  And just as ineffective, to put it - erm - charitably.

Harry Browne has a book out on Mr Vox which, judging by initial reviews, is well worth a read.  The Irish Times reported that friend of the Hewsons (aka Mrs and Mrs Bono Vox), and fellow look-at-me-I'm-doing-good-deeds merchant, Adi Roche, has said that people shouldn't buy the tome.

And what better recommendation could you get than that? 


12 comments:

F said...

lmao .. Loving that 'book cover' hahaha

Anonymous said...

Just when some sections of the Irish public belatedly realised.....What the rest of us knew all along ?

Ella said...

Hi GM, you'd have to laugh - Bono meeting the US president's wife in Dalkey and the G8 going on in Enniskillen. There is also the fact that the Irish tax payer is paying for the security for Ms Obama go to go Dalkey for a private lunch with somebody who does his best to avoid paying Irish taxes.

F said...

Talking of 'Bono'. There is a excellent comment/article regarding the man in todays Guardian (UK). >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/17/bono-africans-stealing-voice-poor

DC3 said...

Eh Africa's poor because of internal corruption and due to the rest of the world happens to want it that way. All leading to a world which allows punters the serious filthy lucre to buy U2 tickets. Therefore, making U2 part of the problem, and Bono a Billionaire(?).

He would be better consistently standing up for the individual V the BANKS and International and National CORRUPTION. A bit too real that though...

Jim Spriggs said...

Quite the most nauseating and self-aggrandizing person on this Gombeen island.

Nenad said...

Fuckin' hilarious! I have to get that one :D Thanks for the tip!

The Gombeen Man said...

Nice to see Clare Daly have a pop at him too, as he fell over himself to slobber – along with the rest of the Irish establishment – over the Obama visit, which I'm sure even they found embarrassing.

She said that there had been news bulletins " to tell us what Michelle Obama and her daughters had for lunch in Dublin, but very little questioning of the fact that she was having lunch with Mr Tax Exile himself".

DC3 said...

GM when did REALITY ever stand in the way of anything in this BOG? Belgium with attitude.

f said...

Anyone never seen the opening 8 minutes of 'get him to the greek'?

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/03/get-him-to-the-greek-video/


sod u scrumpy cider :p

oli said...

Yeah, fuck people who do nice things. Sitting at the computer and complaining is a much more productive use of time.

The Gombeen Man said...

Great video F, and worth a look.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/03/get-him-to-the-greek-video/

What "nice things", Oli? Is tax avoidance nice?