What a lowlife, toadying, tax dodging, multi-millionaire west Brit arsehole that man is! Here’s what the band’s website says “The British Ambassador to Ireland, Mr David Reddaway, announced today that Bono is being awarded an honorary knighthood…We understand that Bono is ‘very flattered’ to be honoured, particularly if the honour – like its French counterpart – opens doors for his long standing campaigning work against extreme poverty in Africa.”

Graham Norton, not always the first person I look to for an opinion, got it right when he said “He goes to hell and back to avoid paying tax. He has a special accountant. He works out Irish tax loopholes. And then he’s asking me to buy a well for an African village. “Tarmac the road outside your house, you tight-wad! Or pay for a school in Ireland.” The scounging sycophant shifted a big portion of his assets to the Netherlands to benefit from that country’s lower rate of tax folllowing in that fine Irish tradition of moralising tax evaders like Charles Haughey and then drones on about the world’s poor as if he has some connection with them.

How little self respect does a man have to have before behaving like this and why is his effigy not burned every year?

PS: And Bono almost got me killed last night. I was discussing the matter with a friend at at our customary high level of sophistication. He got so angry that he briefly lost control of the car because he was swearing that much and we nearly ended up in the river Lagan. Even the mention of his name can make bad things happen.

17 responses to “Sir Bono – tax dodging gombeen gobshite”

  1. “What a lowlife, toadying, tax dodging, multi-millionaire west Brit arsehole that man is”!Liam, all I can say is, spot-on comrade!!

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  2. Oh, it’s so cheap and so obvious but so satisfying to say “‘Bono’ is an arse”.He’s very rich, but on the other hand he’s also a prick. I wouldn’t trade off intelligence against stupidity – I guess ‘bono’ didn’t have the choice.

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  3. splinteredsunrise Avatar
    splinteredsunrise

    Agree with every word, Liam. Sticking the boot into Sir Bono may be a bit fish in a barrel, but by god it’s fun.

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  4. Did I imagine your homage to the Pogues and dire warning about Christy Moore heading down Bono lane, and the two YouTube clips to support same? Where did they go? I wanted to play the latter for my mother. Who says hello, by the bye.

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  5. No you didn’t imagine them. I put them up as a Christmas treat but now we are back to more ususal earnest fare. Have a good New Year and say hello to P&M. We are off to Berlin tomorrow.

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  6. Thank you so, so much. I realise now that this is not new or particularly shocking stuff anymore, but sometimes a person is so foul and loathesome that there really isn’t enough bile in the world….P.S. Where do you buy ‘Bono is a Tax Evader’ t-shirts?

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  7. RISHI, MY REAL NAME Avatar
    RISHI, MY REAL NAME

    FUCK YOU ASS! INSULTINNG BONO??? BASTARD!

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  8. “FUCK YOU ASS! INSULTINNG BONO??? BASTARD!”

    Bono is a self-important parasite who feeds off the charity of others. He should hand over his tax evading wealth to the starving instead of trying to guilt trip the rest of us while shmoozing with murders like Bush and Blair.

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  9. Bono is an arse. I mean who the fuck asked him to save Africa anyway? Bono is at the end of the day a singer in an over the hill rock band, like his pal the equally annoying Geldof.

    Africa has a litany of seemingly intractable problems. Ethnic hatred, AIDS, Basket case economies and war.

    Bono, Geldof and the rest of the rock star shiterati may be rich and to an extent have access to power however they have no clue how to solve Africa other than throwing money at it (our fucking money the tax dodging bastards!)

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  10. It turns out he’s a bigger idiot than we had thought. This gem, in which he excuses tax dodging, comes from the Irish Times.

    ““I can understand how people outside the country wouldn’t understand how Ireland got to its prosperity but everybody in Ireland knows that there are some very clever people in the Government and in the Revenue who created a financial architecture that prospered the entire nation – it was a way of attracting people to this country who wouldn’t normally do business here,” he says. “And the financial services brought billions of dollars every year directly to the exchequer.”

    This is the state which is chopping $20bn from its spending, anticipating that this decade will be worse than the 1980s and is in financial meltdown.

    And the new single is shit beyond description with a stars and stripes draped video that makes it even worse.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0227/breaking1.htm

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  11. […] In fact, I virtually never hear the subject raised in Britain, even though it seems to come up all the time in Ireland – some people really get quite intemperate about it. […]

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  12. Yeah, well, whatever.

    If you have lots of loud ideas for how governments should spend people’s taxes, then you need to be a bit careful about how you pay your own tax.

    After decades of being U2 tax-free in Ireland, and then when your U2 tax-free allowance is capped at over eight times average workers pay – on just one part of your revenue – and you run that bit off to Holland to remain tax-free U2.

    Then, yes, I’m afraid you risk the shout going up of:
    “U2 tax-dodging wankers U2”.

    PS – and take off them shades when you’re talking to the Pope, ya short-arsed wee shoite of a tax-dodging wanker!

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  13. Have you ever heard the story that u2 didnt actually write most of ACHTUNG BABY?That one has been doing the rounds herei n ireland since 1989.

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  14. We in England would be embarrassed by association with Bono or “Sir Bob”

    Are they supposed to be “CLEVER”?

    No talent and an unfortunate obsession with saving tax.

    Exactly the sort of person to front any charity 🙂

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  15. I forgot to add that St Bob’s comment about the possibility of funds to Ethiopia being diverted to unpleasant characters following Live Aid was not only pompous, but beyond belief!

    As if nothing of the sort never happened. Instead of accepting the possibility, St Bob threw a “hissy fit”.

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  16. An also at Live 8 U2 were embarrassingly bad backing Sir Paul, a real talent. Was he forced to have them?

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  17. Misguided yes,but hey you cant takeitaway from their music.Long and repetative yet alive.Time for Paul to concentrate ,and check it out.

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