Half a house is better then no bed 

Half a house is better then no bed

“[link=http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1430922006 ]Irish[/link] premier Bertie Ahern was today facing further questions about cash he received while finance minister in the early 1990s.
Opposition leaders will attempt to establish whether Mr Ahern has tax obligations to address. Mr Ahern last night revealed during an emotional TV interview that he received £39,000 in two unpaid loans in 1993 and 1994.”

“In December 1998 it was revealed that Mandelson had bought a home in Notting Hill in 1996 with the assistance of an interest-free loan of £373,000 from Geoffrey Robinson, … he knew he should have declared the loan as an interest, and he was sacked on 23 December 1998.”

Price of a house in Dublin at the time was about 70,000 pounds. So Mandelson takes a house and resigns Bertie half a one and does not.