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Ben Gilroy steps down as leader of DDI, even bigger lunatic replaces him

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    #32
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    What is it about small political parties attracting every sort of mouth breather, gombeen, malcontent and ne'er-do-well? And then all the splits, blog posts, social media 'campaigns' and potshots?

    The loony left and gibbering Republicans are mad for it as well. Great entertainment though.


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    #33
    slippy wicket
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭slippy wicket


    Axton Fluffy Femur wrote: »
    The more I heard about this party, and it's chairmen/leader(s?), I think that it's run by unhinged nincoompoops. One hopes that the people of Ireland never suffer the indignity of having being represented by a member of Direct Democracy Ireland.

    You think that's bad, us wexfordians have had to put up with muck Wallace as a td for the last 3 years. :(

    Regarding b## g##### and that shower of conspiraloons they are dangerous nuts.


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    #34
    Gummy Panda
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    wasn't Ben Gilroy the drunk chief of police on shield?

    Whats he doing with DDI?


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    #35
    General Zod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    He stepped down obviously to put in the production hours in his big budget chat show.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwr1ivNzo14


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    #36
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    General Zod wrote: »
    He stepped down obviously to put in the production hours in his big budget chat show.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwr1ivNzo14

    Tried to watch it. So boring.

    I hear AERTV are going to broadcast it. How long before someone on their show libels someone and they get sued?

    Especially if they get the fluoride brigade on, they love libelling people.


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    #37
    General Zod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Tried to watch it. So boring.
    eh, did you not hear th applause at every break? I was clapping along also. very entertaining.
    I hear AERTV are going to broadcast it. How long before someone on their show libels someone and they get sued?

    Especially if they get the fluoride brigade on, they love libelling people.

    axBFnAg.gif


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    #38
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    General Zod wrote: »
    eh, did you not hear th applause at every break? I was clapping along also. very entertaining.

    Oh you mean all the applause from the live studio audience that didn't sound fake at all?

    :)


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    #39
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    FinneGwale and the banks must be paying these lads to infiltrate all the new parties


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    #40
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Can we not have a party which advocates true direct democracy without all the fluoride conspiracy / freeman crap?
    A proper direct democracy party by definition wouldn't have policies on any of these issues.


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    #41
    Pegmatite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Pegmatite


    Robbo wrote: »
    Rudd is the chairman, still. His contributions to the internet are, eh, interesting if you care to Google. The Wikipedia edit war concerning DDI is also quite hilarious. All kinds of allegations of shadowy forces at work.

    Rudd at one stage was a prolific Walter Mitty type poster here on Boards, until in one post he threatened to sue boards. I;m sure he is still floating about here somewhere using his wife's username or as a rereg


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    #42
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Axton Fluffy Femur wrote: »
    But they've saying for ages that their chairman was someone called Jeff Rudd. Has Mr. Gilroy been running the show from behind the scenes this whole time, like some demented puppet master?


    Astonishing stuff.
    Robbo wrote: »
    Rudd is the chairman, still. His contributions to the internet are, eh, interesting if you care to Google. The Wikipedia edit war concerning DDI is also quite hilarious. All kinds of allegations of shadowy forces at work.


    You mostly know him better as Biggins.


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    #43
    Pegmatite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Pegmatite


    I didnt want to name him, but yeah.
    Spy, bar man, ex military strong man, IT dude and now leader of DDI


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    #44
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57245803&postcount=3


    well he named himself before so doesnt seem that big a deal


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    #45
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    wasn't Ben Gilroy the drunk chief of police on shield?

    Whats he doing with DDI?

    he was.
    BUt he was a smooth operator before the booze killed him.
    helped vic out countless times, buried charges and made a killing cash wise for himself via corruption.
    He was a king among men.


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    #46
    KyussBishop
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    Biggins is the actual chairman of DDI now? Heh, that's pretty interesting.


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    #47
    Pegmatite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Pegmatite


    KyussBishop wrote: »
    Biggins is the actual chairman of DDI now? Heh, that's pretty interesting.

    And it would be terrible if some bored journalist where to come across his posts here and see some of the terrible half truth, extreme comments and out right lies that he posted here over the years.


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    #48
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,331 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    KyussBishop wrote: »
    Biggins is the actual chairman of DDI now? Heh, that's pretty interesting.

    Unless events have moved again, he's ex-Chairman.
    He was appointed chairman at the AGM in December but resigned totally from the organisation a few weeks ago.


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    #49
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,389 ✭✭✭cml387


    Biggins never struck me as someone with OTT views. He did say he was involved with FF at one stage then saw the light, but I wouldn't have put him down as a nutter and I was honestly shocked when he went off the rails with his suing threats.


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    #50
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Pegmatite wrote: »
    And it would be terrible if some bored journalist where to come across his posts here and see some of the terrible half truth, extreme comments and out right lies that he posted here over the years.
    I hope that doesn't happen. It would be unnecessary since he doesn't have any chance of getting elected anywhere anyway and, from what I've observed from his postings lately, he doesn't seem the most stable of individuals.


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    #51
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ClovenHoof


    No interest in either Gilroy or DDI but the OP who started this thread stinks of Government.

    Reckon Labour.


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    #52
    porsche959
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    The Freeman on the Land crowd have yet to mount a successful legal case anywhere in the world. That tells you all you need to know.


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    #53
    hatrickpatrick
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    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    Unless events have moved again, he's ex-Chairman.
    He was appointed chairman at the AGM in December but resigned totally from the organisation a few weeks ago.

    Dd he give any reason?
    I really miss Biggins. One of the comparatively few on Boards who believed in activism and that democracy isn't a spectator sport.


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    #54
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Dd he give any reason?
    I really miss Biggins. One of the comparatively few on Boards who believed in activism and that democracy isn't a spectator sport.

    He also allowed himself to get caught up with these other nutters, though. And continues to go out of his way to defend their indefensible actions. Someone has already said it, but a group espousing the virtues of 'direct democracy' should not have any strong political ideals themselves.. let alone the right-wing & populist ideals of DDI.

    They've probably set the argument for a move towards direct democracy in Ireland back by years by allowing their stubborn views on specific issues to get in the way of that.


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    #55
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,331 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Dd he give any reason?

    From a thread on boards politics forum.
    After another in DDI Louth doing something (short version: back-stabbed and slandered) that effected my family deeply, I put my family first and resigned from DDI completely. I got no help from the heads of DDI who again proved to be completely useless.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=89456593&postcount=180

    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    I really miss Biggins. One of the comparatively few on Boards who believed in activism and that democracy isn't a spectator sport.

    Personally I always find his politics amongst the most obnoxious, its the politics of 'agree with me 100% or I'll abuse you from a height'.
    Its politics as practised by a 3 year old having a tantrum.


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    #56
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    FTA69 wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcrX457a74

    Click the above link to see DDI's Campaign Song to the tune of Sinatra's New York, New York.

    It's actually worse than the Holocaust.

    oh no you didn't :D


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    #57
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    cml387 wrote: »
    Biggins never struck me as someone with OTT views. He did say he was involved with FF at one stage then saw the light, but I wouldn't have put him down as a nutter and I was honestly shocked when he went off the rails with his suing threats.

    He seems like a decent lad. Dont know why he wants to sue boards or what caused him to throw a wobbler before they banned him. I'd say though the crowd running this site were to a large extent looking for an excuse to get rid of him because they thought he was taking up too much time on the stage and since he was always polite and courteous I'd say they just started agitating him till he lost the plot.


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    #58
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    The paranoid claims that get made on this place. It wasn't the crowd running the site at all that were agitating him. It was particular posters who were not running anything.
    Yeh he was reasonable and pleasant a lot of the time but some of the stuff he posted in relation to politics wasn't at all, it was highly accusatory and inflammatory. If you dared dissent from the "The government are all a shower of crooks" tedium you were in for it. People challenged him on it and he didn't like it.


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    #59
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    The paranoid claims that get made on this place. It wasn't the crowd running the site at all that were agitating him. It was particular posters who were not running anything.
    Yeh he was reasonable and pleasant a lot of the time but some of the stuff he posted in relation to politics wasn't at all, it was highly accusatory and inflammatory. If you dared dissent from the "The government are all a shower of crooks" tedium you were in for it. People challenged him on it and he didn't like it.

    You mean the shower in government arent crooks? :shocked: Before he got banned they were 'on to him' as such and I suppose the particular posters he was having bother with at the time might not have been reigned in when someome doing the same thing to someone else would. Even in posts where people disagreed with him he took the time to explain his point of view better, in my experience anyway. I havnt read all 30k of his posts


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    #60
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Are you saying he had absolutely no responsibility at all in getting banned?


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    #61
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Are you saying he had absolutely no responsibility at all in getting banned?

    Ah jaysus not saying that at all. Sure it was himself that threatened to sue boards after all and that isnt cool but feck it I think the crowd that were against him got away with a lot


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