Leo varadkar +LCD Sound system+ abortion = ?

Water John · 30-09-2017 01:28PM

Whoever Leo is, he's an elected representative of the people and that should be respected.
I would not like or wish to meet Trump but I would not be rude to him.

Irish Guitarist · 30-09-2017 01:33PM

He said that the band's synthesizer Nancy Whang "took him to task" on Ireland's abortion law.

Aside from the stupidity of thinking the taoiseach can just change the law at a whim without holding a referendum I'm impressed that the band has a synthesiser that can talk. I know synthesisers can sample speech and all but they don't usually tend to vocalise their own opinions.

Strazdas · 30-09-2017 01:35PM

Water John wrote: »

Whoever Leo is, he's an elected representative of the people and that should be respected.
I would not like or wish to meet Trump but I would not be rude to him.

Height of rudeness IMO. If I was performing in another country and the PM of that country came backstage, I wouldn't dream of publicly referring to him (or her) as a "tosser" no matter what my political opinions were. This individual would do well to remember he was a guest in our country.

Water John · 30-09-2017 01:39PM

It doesn't matter which end of the spectrum the politician is as this cuts both ways and demeans democracy.

Outlaw Pete · 30-09-2017 01:39PM

When virtual signalling goes wrong.

JMNolan · 30-09-2017 01:40PM

I presume they wanted varadkar to change the constitution there and then?

snowflaker · 30-09-2017 01:43PM

Peter Flynt wrote: »

He was probably hoping to setup another photo op but instead had to settle for a selfie with the likes of Paschal Donohoe (who still can't talk properly)

TBF Paschal has a speech impediment

Water John · 30-09-2017 01:50PM

And, what's that to do with, the price of cabbage?

Never heard anyone having a go at Francie Ross.

The J Stands for Jay · 30-09-2017 01:58PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Never heard of them. Now that I have, have no desire to hear of them again.

Ah come on, I don't follow that nonsense, but I still knew who Leo Varadkar was.

Dick phelan · 30-09-2017 02:00PM

What a surprise some no name celebrity trying to "stick it to the man" i doubt the idiot even knows what the campaign is about, not the biggest fan of Leo but he's our head of government deserves more respect then to be called a tosser by some hipster nobody who is supposed to be a guest in our country what tosser he is.

Jimbob1977 · 30-09-2017 02:07PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Aside from the stupidity of thinking the taoiseach can just change the law at a whim without holding a referendum I'm impressed that the band has a synthesiser that can talk. I know synthesisers can sample speech and all but they don't usually tend to vocalise their own opinions.

Just what do you think you're doing, Leo? Leo, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question

Kermit.de.frog · 30-09-2017 02:23PM

Peter Flynt wrote: »

Varadkar's problem is that he cannot see that people generally don't like him.

What makes you think people generally don't like him?

I'm from the big middle of society and pretty much everyone I know is delighted finally a politician wants to give something back to the ones who pay for everything in this country and work their asses off.

Whether he follows through I don't know but saying people don't like his arguments is facile nonsense.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 30-09-2017 02:54PM

Peter Flynt wrote: »

Varadkar's problem is that he cannot see that people generally don't like him. His politics has something to do with it but there's more. Something about the American accent from Castleknock I'd say.

The more he tries to improve his image (with photo ops) the more he keeps embarrassing himself.

The "thrill" at going to Downing St summed him up. . . Vacuous Varadkar.

A person of zero principles and even worse morals.

People generally? Really? That's just your own unfounded opinion. All opinion polls in the past two months disagree with you. But sure you know more anecdotally than any actual surveys will ever do.

30-09-2017 03:02PM

Yea, I read that. What an absolute nonce of a person.

"Took to task"

Would you ever f*ck off?

Irish Guitarist · 30-09-2017 03:06PM

This idiot really seems to think the taoiseach can just change the abortion law at a whim. Regardless of your views on either abortion or Varadkar, protesting to him isn't going to make any difference. His idiocy scored a lot of points for him on Twitter with young 'feminists' though. The young ones will be all over him backstage at his Irish gigs now.

I don't know much about the band. Is he American or English?

AlekSmart · 30-09-2017 03:08PM

Leona Brief Teen wrote: »

People generally? Really? That's just your own unfounded opinion. All opinion polls in the past two months disagree with you. But sure you know more anecdotally than any actual surveys will ever do.

People "generally" in his own constituency actually rather like him...to the tune of 8,247 (20% of the valid poll) first preference votes in a Free and Fair electoral process.

https://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2016&cons=112

Is this wrong....should the 20% who voted for Leo V,be arrested and interned pending questioning by P.Flynn...oops sorry Flynt ?

If and when Alek Smart or Peter Flynt stick their names on a ballot paper and see how many "generally" wish to vote for us,then I'll start posting about it....until then I'm afraid,Leo V has the batin' of us.

Damn this oul democracy thing anyway....:(

MadYaker · 30-09-2017 03:11PM

Haha, this is hilarious. Al Doyle made a throwaway comment without all the facts and he's getting dogs abuse for it on twitter. He sounds very rattled, I think they had a serious session after the gig in Dublin last night. https://twitter.com/aldoyletweets

Also he's not a yank he's english as far as I know. He has apologised though.

Berserker · 30-09-2017 03:20PM

MadYaker wrote: »

Haha, this is hilarious. Al Doyle made a throwaway comment without all the facts and he's getting dogs abuse for it on twitter.

It was a really poor comment. Not sure what he expected to gain from it.

MadYaker wrote: »

Also he's not a yank he's english as far as I know. He has apologised though.

Probably a Corbynite. Sounds like something they'd come out with.

Irish Guitarist · 30-09-2017 03:21PM

His latest tweet: "I'm glad there's a referendum happening; of course I am. And I'd hate to distract from the real debate in any way."

Yeah of course you'd hate to distract from it. You really seem to hate attention.

His tweets are on a par with Donald Trump for stupidity but his fans are going mad for him.

Archeron · 30-09-2017 03:22PM

Your Face wrote: »

Ha, I wish, but it's not fashionable enough.

Wait til you see the new range of Repeal the USC jeggings.

Nabber · 30-09-2017 03:26PM

In fairness tho Leo is a tosser. This guy doesn't know why he's a tosser, but that doesn't mean Leo is not a tosser.

McMurphy · 30-09-2017 03:26PM

Berserker wrote: »

It was a really poor comment. Not sure what he expected to gain from it.

Probably a Corbynite. Sounds like something they'd come out with.

Pkiernan · 30-09-2017 03:27PM

He is one ugly looking jackass.

AllGunsBlazing · 30-09-2017 03:29PM

A pair of tossers.

20Cent · 30-09-2017 03:37PM

Sounds like Leo was the rude one. Goes backstage and blanks one of the band.

pumpkin4life · 30-09-2017 03:48PM

Fucking hilarious. Being of course part of the Enlightened Progressive (sorry CENTRIST) Gatekeepers of Knowledge whose hobbies include reading Margaret Atwood novels, curling up next to the T.V watching The Steven Colbert Show while reading articles from Fintan o Tooley and sniff, wee Justin, the boy who was not gay for play, of course he has to be at a LCD Soundsystem gig.

They're trying to remarket the school nerd, the Milhouse Van Houten as the cool, clever down with the kids lad. And you know what? Rural and working class don't give a **** about big gay indian lads turning up at hipster lad concerts. They want jobs.

That's why you're seeing all of this right now. And that's why it's failing.

I think you're looking at a party in the first stages of meltdown now in all honesty.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 30-09-2017 03:49PM

AlekSmart wrote: »

People "generally" in his own constituency actually rather like him...to the tune of 8,247 (20% of the valid poll) first preference votes in a Free and Fair electoral process.

https://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2016&cons=112

Is this wrong....should the 20% who voted for Leo V,be arrested and interned pending questioning by P.Flynn...oops sorry Flynt ?

If and when Alek Smart or Peter Flynt stick their names on a ballot paper and see how many "generally" wish to vote for us,then I'll start posting about it....until then I'm afraid,Leo V has the batin' of us.

Damn this oul democracy thing anyway....:(

Apples and oranges. His popularity ratings both as a Party Leader and Taoiseach are high at the moment. The comment on the GE results is moot as we use PR for a start, which skews figures, and he topped the pole in his constituency by quite a margin.
As things stand at the moment he has the batin' of any party leader in the country on 'general' popularity.
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for the present.

CeilingFly · 30-09-2017 03:50PM

Way I see it is a group of yanks came along to some foreign country, asked what the trending news was, looked it up, saw that leader of said foreign country was dithering about the issue.

Problem is, the yanks were looking at some report from months ago - if they bothered to check they'd have seen that there's a new leader and one of his first decisions is to prioritise the referendum on the eight and have it held as soon as possible.

But that's yanks for you.

snowflaker · 30-09-2017 03:51PM

He’s dithering with his support tbf

pilly · 30-09-2017 03:53PM

It really depends whether Leo was invited back stage or if he invited himself.

Leo varadkar +LCD Sound system+ abortion = ?

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