Peter Casey to contest the European elections

We need him to run for The dail. Not Europe. The guy is totally clueless. It goes to show what one guy speaking the truth can do, so many other weaknesses but speaking the truth and he wins a sizeable percentage of the vote !

is_that_so wrote:

He deserves a roasting for the flaky policies, none of which have any substance and vary at a moment's notice.

You see he has opened up a new way to get media coverage and votes. You'll see younger people who'll do what he is doing only much better in the next general election.

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

Hahahaha the only alternative is to give them houses.

Give me a break. We can do like Australia and send them to an island. That worked for Oz. Sharp drop in the number of "asylum seekers" once they realised they were not getting a cushy life in a b&b

Yeah, you realise that would still be direct provision, and probably cost as much if not more. ? (Any particular island in mind by the way ?) Back in the real world, whether you like it or not there, are certain minimum standards that we are obliged to maintain in respect of housing asylum seekers. Direct Provision seems to be either a cushy number for freeloaders, or an inhumane prison system, according to your worldview. In reality it's an imperfect answer to fulfill our international obligations, while not making the system her overly attractive. It's clearly not ideal that people spend years in the system, but as pointed out elsewhere that is really down to appeals and court cases, which can take years. Initial asylum claims are decided on relatively quickly. If you see someone complaining they are in the system for 7/8 years you can be sure they are not on their first trip around the block. Many of them would actually have deportation orders which they are challenging in Court. That's the real elephant in the room here. The High Court needs serious resources allocated to it to deal with cases. I'd favour a dedicated Immigration court system myself.

Faugheen wrote: »

Plumb said without foundation that people will vote for Maria Walsh because she’s gay and won the ROT. They have no proof of that?

Well there is no way in hell she would be on the ballot paper if it wasn't for the profile she got as winner of ROT and indeed fact she was first openly gay winner.

And yes she will get votes because she is
a) FG
b) a woman
c) from Mayo
d) Gay
e) nice to some people that have met her

Faugheen wrote: »

I’m saying that people will vote for Casey because he speaks their racist views.

I’ve asked that poster numerous times to just simply say: ‘I’m not voting for Casey because of his racist views’ and they didn’t.

Ah yes everyone that disagrees with you is a racist.

Mad_maxx wrote: »

The winner had the entire political and media class behind him, casey was demonised by all from both for a week, his result was phenomenal

Casey doing so well should have been a wake up call to politicians.

The laugh is they, and the modern liberally minded mostly supposed left, still have learned nothing from what is happening all over the world.
Ordinary people are getting tired of stuff being shoved down their throats by media, celebrities, academics and politicians.

Of course these groups then label the people as ignorant, racist, bigotted right wingers.

They still haven't copped on that ordinary people are worried about globalisation, about mass immigration that affects their and their childrens future access to education, healthcare, housing, and they are worried about things like crime, terrorism, non integrating ghettos in their towns and cities.

Now the last two don't really apply to Ireland, but they are part of the mix in lots of European states at this stage.

Of course this is all played as racism and stupidity.
But is it stupid to worry about crime being perpetrated by a tiny minority who often are allowed operate outside of the laws of the land, but to add insult to injury are then awarded special status that will used to copperfasten their outsider status ?

Is it stupid to worry that large number of uneducated unskilled migrants will have detrimental effects on access to housing, education, healthcare?

Basically the politicians, the media, academics, NGOs, the connected ones and the right on well meaning crowd are telling the people there is nothing to worry about. Basically it is a suck it up.
And you are a racist for evening voicing your concerns.

And the same ones then wonder why if the hopeless, the bumblers, the right wingers who listen, or the shysters who pretend to listen, are getting the votes.

Yes there are the bigots, the racists, the religious conservatives, the real right wingers, but according to some everyone not subscribing to their exact views are now racists and bigots.

On a world stage one example of how fooked the world has become is when a LGB campaigner and pioneer such as Martina Navratilova is lambasted for not being an excusor of the modern LGBT lunacy in womens/transexual sport.

Idbatterim wrote: »

We need him to run for The dail. Not Europe. The guy is totally clueless. It goes to show what one guy speaking the truth can do, so many other weaknesses but speaking the truth and he wins a sizeable percentage of the vote !

That is because so few now speak anything resembling the truth.
It is a rarity and refreshing.
The comment by the panel on the night of the debate about traveller halting sites spoke volumes as to who was honest and not a complete disingenous liar.
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Renua laughably lost a lot of votes due to their pro life stance. Funny how so many of the young electorate will take a stand on a massively grey area and yet be prepared to emigrate in droves like nurses and doctors. Or live at home in their mid thirties, due to the housing crisis. Hundreds of thousands varadkar has brainwashed there. You got e1.50 extra a week as a workers last year in USc cut, yet I bet they believe believe varadkar rewards the early risers. They’ll be rising in the middle of the night in the not too distant future, to work two jobs so they can be lifelong serfs to varadkar and his Kennedy Wilson mates.

Too many of the parties playing it too safe. All fishing in the same pond. Might make sense if you are the establishment, but if you have no seats and nothing to lose , better off just representing those who feel they have no voice and actually speaking up for them ...