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Peter Casey to contest the European elections

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  • #1712
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,756 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    I was in a position where I looked at the polling card and went f*uck who are these people?...can I do a 4,5,6 - so I voted green #1 and the Casey (kind of an anti establishment and aptly #2) and Ming #3 because well, one must. I hope RTE/TG4 poll are wrong I don't want either FF or FG (particularly) feeling all is OK because it isn't.

    I am normally a left wing voter btw.


  • #1713
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
    Mark Twain


  • #1714
    Wheeliebin30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    Pretzill wrote: »
    I was in a position where I looked at the polling card and went f*uck who are these people?...can I do a 4,5,6 - so I voted green #1 and the Casey (kind of an anti establishment and aptly #2) and Ming #3 because well, one must. I hope RTE/TG4 poll are wrong I don't want either FF or FG (particularly) feeling all is OK because it isn't.

    I am normally a left wing voter btw.

    Well get used to it.

    The country doesn’t want a left wing party in charge.


  • #1715
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,079 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Protestant people voted for de Valera in presidential elections, because he was in power when IRA men were executed in the 1940's. In the North the DUP claim some Catholics vote for them because of their stand on abortion.


  • #1716
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    Well get used to it.

    The country doesn’t want a left wing party in charge.

    I hope that fact never changes either


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  • #1717
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Nobelium wrote: »
    the people have a short memory, the greens in cahoots with FF bankrupted Ireland for a generation last time they were in power.

    Not forgetting the John Gormley Sewage Disposal Facility in his constituency.


  • #1718
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    No swing to FG so?


  • #1719
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    Edgware wrote: »
    Not forgetting the John Gormley Sewage Disposal Facility in his constituency.

    When you add other debts its closer to 333 billion. In 2008 the uk backed irelands call for 36 billion in ango be left defaulted.
    Timothy gihgner (rough spelling) vetoed it. Good man obama shure he drank a pint in offaly. Orange man bad! Obama through ****ed us in just dat alone i could go on but fact and logic v fanatics dies not end well..


  • #1720
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
    Mark Twain

    More true now than ever before


  • #1721
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    Edgware wrote: »
    No swing to FG so?

    The only swing connected to FG is the one Maria Bailey was on.


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  • #1722
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/portrait-of-a-man-who-opposed-haircuts-1.1792498%3fmode=amp


  • #1723
    thecretinhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    thecretinhop wrote: »
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/portrait-of-a-man-who-opposed-haircuts-1.1792498%3fmode=amp

    Translation fk de idiot paddies.
    But obama had de pint in offaly!


  • #1724
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    eagle eye wrote: »
    If a younger smarter person takes up his mantle he will get elected and probably top a poll.

    You thought Mairead McGuinness would be lucky to get a seat.
    eagle eye wrote: »
    If you think somebody from a party which has shut down rural hospitals, made a major blunder with billions of our euro on the new children's hospital, left rural Ireland without broadband, wants everybody to stop cutting turf and has a gay party leader is going to top the poll in the northwest region you are deluded.
    Sadly she might get a seat.
    eagle eye wrote: »
    I think she will at best be fourth. There are lots of posters up for her running mate in Sligo, Donegal and Roscommon. I don't think I've seen a poster for McGuinness yet. They could do themselves out of getting even one seat.


  • #1725
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    tonycascarino wrote: »
    Exit polls mean zilch. I don't think too many are going to admit they voted for Casey in an exit poll. Somehow, I think he will be much higher.

    Whilst there’ll be a larger margin of error in a large consistency, this is highly unlikely. Exit polls are generally on the money. Naturally there are exceptions.

    And why would anyone hide who they voted for? Kinda odd that they’d vote for someone that they’re ashamed to admit to.


  • #1726
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,851 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote:
    You thought Mairead McGuinness would be lucky to get a seat.
    Yes, I overestimated the intelligence of the electorate.


  • #1727
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    https://commodity.com/debt-clock/japan/

    According to the IMF, Japan’s national debt to GDP ratio was 236% in 2017, making it the highest national debt in the world when compared to the national income.

    The poor oul Japanese must be bankrupted for ten generations. In reality capitalism depends on lending and borrowing and every country in the world has a national debt. Ours is nothing out of the ordinary.


    The vast majority of Japanese debt is internally held (by both their own central bank and domestic Japanese financial institutions). Simply put, if they were to default, they would be defaulting on themselves. A world away from Ireland's debt problems then and now, when we were in hock to the world and his mother.


  • #1728
    UrbanSprawl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    Yurt! wrote: »
    The vast majority of Japanese debt is internally held (by both their own central bank and domestic Japanese financial institutions). Simply put, if they were to default, they would be defaulting on themselves. A world away from Ireland's debt problems then and now, when we were in hock to the world and his mother.

    cant pay we will take it away based on the exit polls another 5 years of climate change waffle and inward migration eammon ryan will be delighted


  • #1729
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,080 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Yes, I overestimated the intelligence of the electorate.

    Weird that she is one of the most hard working and competent MEPs we have.

    Kinda crazy you think people don't see what's right in front of them..but I suppose there's not accounting for ones mad views colouring the facts.



    Looks like renua and that other mad gowl party are being slammed in the polls.


  • #1730
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Apparently he's picking up lots of second preferences from the FG and FF candidates...


  • #1731
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Nobelium wrote: »
    the people have a short memory, the greens in cahoots with FF bankrupted Ireland for a generation last time they were in power.

    The greens made up the numbers from 2007 to 2011, they had little to do with the policies which made our experience of the global recession so much worse


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  • #1732
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Doubtful, I can see him throwing his hat in the ring for the GE. If he decides to become serious/ drop the incoherent babbling , pick a position stick with it and gets some PR help he will be in with a shot. He reasonates with people, 7 per cent if that is his final result is impressive considering he is not a politician.

    Casey himself is too dumb to ever bring about the change which many want, hopefully his crude and clumsy experience will encourage a more sophisticated operator to emerge, it's a big task in a country so utterly dominated by the left in terms of public discourse


  • #1733
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,079 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The thread is suddenly full of experts on international debt. And of course as usual Ireland is the very worst in the world ever.


  • #1734
    badtoro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭badtoro


    SirGerryAdams wrote: »
    I'll be voting no.1 for The Peter to try and stop Walsh getting in! My real no.1 vote is Ming but I know he's getting in so I'll give my no.1 to Casey.

    Jesus but you'd want a kick. It's that type of brain fart that got Brexit across the line.

    How do you feel about you "real no.1" on 10% this morning?


  • #1735
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    badtoro wrote: »
    Jesus but you'd want a kick. It's that type of brain fart that got Brexit across the line.

    How do you feel about you "real no.1" on 10% this morning?

    Who did you vote for?


  • #1736
    badtoro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭badtoro


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    badtoro wrote: »
    Jesus but you'd want a kick. It's that type of brain fart that got Brexit across the line.

    How do you feel about you "real no.1" on 10% this morning?

    Who did you vote for?

    #1 Ming


  • #1737
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
    Mark Twain

    Not a Mark Twain quote. ;)


  • #1738
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    The thread is suddenly full of experts on international debt. And of course as usual Ireland is the very worst in the world ever.

    Well, you went off on one about the Japanese economy without knowing what you're talking about. Don't get surprised or hot under the collar when you're corrected (by more than one poster).


  • #1739
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    batgoat wrote: »
    Not a Mark Twain quote. ;)

    I think what Google tells me to think 😉


  • #1740
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    badtoro wrote: »
    #1 Ming

    I voted for Tommy Robinson


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  • #1741
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Yes, I overestimated the intelligence of the electorate.

    Makes wildly inaccurate and out of touch predictions...blames it on other people's intelligence.


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