is_that_so wrote: » What do travellers have to do with the EU Parliament? ........... As I've said before this looks more like a Ganley situation where he may get a reasonable FP but fall short on that and on transfers.
Berserker wrote: » The Travelling Community is a very emotive subject in Ireland and a discussion around it will attract an awful lot of airtime and attention. It'll come up in every single interview he attends and the majority of people in the country agree with his views on the matter. His presidential vote went from 1% - 20%, i.i.r.c. on presenting his views on the matter. Every election in Ireland is a popularity contest. What EU issue come into play for a European election?
FrancieBrady wrote: » Casey's ambition was to join FF. What a fabulous con he is running really.
Berserker wrote: » The Travelling Community is a very emotive subject in Ireland and a discussion around it will attract an awful lot of airtime and attention. It'll come up in every single interview he attends and the majority of people in the country agree with his views on the matter. His presidential vote went from 1% - 20%, i.i.r.c. on presenting his views on the matter. Every election in Ireland is a popularity contest.
Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: » My parents are going to give Maria Walsh their first preference. And my folks are pretty conservative. But they like her.
Joeytheparrot wrote: » He changes with the wind politically. He supported Irexit previously now he doesnt but the Irexit party are backing him.
is_that_so wrote: » Yeah but it really didn't matter what he got, he was never going to win and there was no serious competition to the incumbent. You seem to be assuming that his views will be an element and that he can get away with his made-up policies in this and that people will actually vote for him in this one. You can't extrapolate results in one and assume they would apply to any of the others. MDH was the only one who could take part in any type of election and would have been at the very least competitive.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Eh? His 23% showing actually shows that the majority view is a bit more nuanced than 'dey all camp on other people's land'
Berserker wrote: » Unlike the Independents, AAA/PBP and the SF candidates with their rock solid policies?
23% due to a dash at the final hurdle. He'll have time to prepare for this campaign.
is_that_so wrote: » He'll be up against two of them here, both incumbents. They've got some policies that they stick to, no matter how stupid they may seem to you or others. He's got none that last more than a day or two.
is_that_so wrote: » An uncontested election, save Mary Lou's desperate attempt to boost the poor candidate vote. It tells us very little beyond that. Everyone else kept their money for these two elections. He'll just be one poster amongst hundreds.
Berserker wrote: » And he'll have his policies, no matter how stupid they seem to you or others. He'll probably play the "not going to take a salary" card also, which trumps the AIW card that the left plays.
The same poor candidate that SF ran with and won it in Europe? If that's the calibre of candidate he's running against, he'll be in with a very good shout of winning.
JupiterKid wrote: » Casey is a one trick pony. He is not suitable as an MEP, isn't he a Eurosceptic at any rate? Ming stands a very good chance of re-election. It is ridiculous to suggest that he has done absolutely nothing for his constituents. We will see on when the European election results come in. I personally think the European Parliament is a bit of a gravy train...
Berserker wrote: » Unlike the Independents, AAA/PBP and the SF candidates with their rock solid policies? 23% due to a dash at the final hurdle. He'll have time to prepare for this campaign.
Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: » I’d have thought that’d be a negative for him, to be honest.
FrancieBrady wrote: » this is true. The more the Presidential campaign went on the more confused we got about what he stood for, as he stepped back from his comments and allowed what he unleashed do the boosting for him. If anybody is bothered to give him debating time with other candidates, his anti-Euro (I could have sworn it was Irexit) stance will fall asunder fairly quickly.Still betting on him coming out with some controversial remark about immigration and the great unleashed taking to the Tweet machine again.
Yurt! wrote: » I watched her speak at the Irexit conference in Limerick on YouTube. In the opening two minutes she declared herself "an expert" on South Korea, then claimed that they experienced a famine in 1977. Yeah, sure thing Dolores, "expert." If concocting a non-existant famine in what was already well on it's way to being a developed country is expertise, I think the good people of Ireland South could do without your kind offer to deploy it on our behalf in Brussels.
Berserker wrote: » He'll get transfers from across the board given his stance on travelers and immigrants. There are plenty of voters out there who have concerns regarding the above but they've never had a political outlet to express them through. Casey gives them that.
Phoebas wrote: » I don't want to elect someone who wants to deliver a disaster in the form of Irexit to Ireland, no matter how articulate they are. The articulate lunatics are the worst kind of lunatics.
Diceicle wrote: » I'll give him a vote simply as a black eye to the establishment. All things being equal I wouldn't give him the time of day - he seems barely competent and a chancer - but if a tougher line was taken with traveller integration and the negative aspects of their culture it would be a benefit to society and ultimatelty to the travellers themselves. What were his comments on immigrants?
Diceicle wrote: » I agree - though as an MEP she can't enact Irexit (AFAIK) she/they could be an agent for reform (which is needed desperately). But Yes, Irexit as a concept would be a disaster right now. 15 or 20 years time maybe a different story.
is_that_so wrote: » Currently that we need to talk about it and to distribute them properly/equally/fairly across the country.
is_that_so wrote: » That's a state level decision and under 10% have any interest in it. No political entity support the idea though. As mentioned at some point on this thread it would require a referendum.
ollkiller wrote: » Irexit. Ya let's leave the global market that we depend on. Let's see unemployment rocket. Let's have the 1980's back. It was soooo good back then.
Cryptopagan wrote: » You'd need to be some sad bastard to vote for a guy who has no political experience, no discernible talents, and who has supported an idea as moronic as Irexit, just because he mouthed off about travelers.
Cryptopagan wrote: You'd need to be some sad bastard to vote for a guy who has no political experience, no discernible talents, and who has supported an idea as moronic as Irexit, just because he mouthed off about travelers.
