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The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 2)

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  • #7352
    James Brown
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    jh79 wrote: »
    Only because they haven't been in government yet. Tweet by Pierce D, praising Stanley for having some crank give a talk about fluoride , was posted earlier in the thread. He's hardly minor.

    Are you saying they wouldn't follow through with any of this stuff ?

    That doesn't take away from high profile ministers and senators from FF/FG/Green/SD etc. doing same.
    Are they putting it forward as policy or like every other party had members with concerns but moved on?

    I expect they'll follow the prevailing medical advice.


  • #7353
    Ireland2020
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    tikkahunter wrote: »
    Why is it strange, I detest them and their populist bollox so will call them out , I have another 800 not on SF .

    Must hurt that they are the party on the up, youth on their side and at their highest ratings in the polls since they began.

    Have the poor Govt scrambling around trying to find anything on them as we now have a proper opposition with SF and a few other parties


  • #7354
    tikkahunter
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    Ireland2020 wrote: »
    Must hurt that they are the party on the up, youth on their side and at their highest ratings in the polls since they began.

    Have the poor Govt scrambling around trying to find anything on them as we now have a proper opposition with SF and a few other parties
    If you say so pity none of the other parties will touch team with a barge pole . Didn’t hurt me personally but I do worry what state the country would be in if they ever do get in . As many gripes I personally have with FG/FF I know the country is stable and our economy is in a good way . The country would be in dire straits if SF do get in . The party that wants to reward scrounges for sitting on their arse and tax the life out of people who go out and nark something of their lives. Look at their bench - that is the best they can up with . Load mouth frauds that have no viable solutions to any issues. They just shout what the people want to hear . All very easy until you have to put it into practice. So this is what counts as proper opposition these days is it ?


  • #7355
    Jinglejangle69
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    Ireland2020 wrote: »
    Our current Govt have ignored public health advice which undermines NHEPT over lockdowns on more than one occasion causing us to have longer level 5 restrictions and then go against them again opening up too early according to the public health advice

    Facts

    NPHET.


  • #7356
    blanch152
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    How is Stanno’s week off going..

    Strong rumours he’s toast in the next day or two.....


    #notanormalparty

    With the flak rightly now on Mary-Lou, a sacrifice is needed. Brian will volunteer.


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  • #7357
    Ireland2020
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    tikkahunter wrote: »
    If you say so pity none of the other parties will touch team with a barge pole . Didn’t hurt me personally but I do worry what state the country would be in if they ever do get in . As many gripes I personally have with FG/FF I know the country is stable and our economy is in a good way . The country would be in dire straits if SF do get in . The party that wants to reward scrounges for sitting on their arse and tax the life out of people who go out and nark something of their lives. Look at their bench - that is the best they can up with . Load mouth frauds that have no viable solutions to any issues. They just shout what the people want to hear . All very easy until you have to put it into practice. So this is what counts as proper opposition these days is it ?

    Yep that's why FF are finished as a party and Leo led FG to their worst election in a century

    Since the merge of FFG (They have the same policies now, no matter what its vote together) SF are at their highest levels in the polls ever all while the Govt give themselves more money and reject mortgage motions, rent motions, kids working in hospital risking their lives getting paid etc..

    Keep it up is all il say


  • #7358
    the_syco
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    Ireland2020 wrote: »
    Have the poor Govt scrambling around trying to find anything on them as we now have a proper opposition with SF and a few other parties
    A proper opposition would be able to say where they plan to get the money from.

    If SF had "burned the bondholders", we wouldn't have anywhere to get loans from now.


  • #7359
    Ireland2020
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    the_syco wrote: »
    A proper opposition would be able to say where they plan to get the money from.

    If SF had "burned the bondholders", we wouldn't have anywhere to get loans from now.

    If we hadn't have bailed the banks who robbed people and continue to do we might be in a completely different situation.

    You can read Sinn Féins alternative budgets every year on their website, you obvs havnt so when you do we can discuss that


  • #7360
    Brendan Bendar
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    Ireland2020 wrote: »
    If we hadn't have bailed the banks who robbed people and continue to do we might be in a completely different situation.

    You can read Sinn Féins alternative budgets every year on their website, you obvs havnt so when you do we can discuss that

    Tax the rich...... I got it there.


  • #7361
    Ireland2020
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Tax the rich...... I got it there.

    So you didn't read it


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  • #7362
    grayzer75
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    A friendly call from a neighbour.......that was unwanted......and made the recipient feel weird.


    #notanormalparty

    It appears SF weren't the first party to make friendly calls to members......

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=115543539

    TheJournal.ie revealed earlier this week that several members of the YFG national executive council visited O’Sullivan’s home last Friday and presented him with a letter demanding his resignation or warning that he would be forced out.


  • #7363
    Brendan Bendar
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    It appears Stanno going to fall on his sword regarding PAC.

    That seems imminent, sources say.

    Unable to get definite confirmation, but inside sources have indicated in that direction.


  • #7364
    FrancieBrady
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    It appears Stanno going to fall on his sword regarding PAC.

    That seems imminent, sources say.

    Unable to get definite confirmation, but inside sources have indicated in that direction.

    I said that once the faux woke crowd ( you know the ones who invent words like 'heavies') got after him, he was toast. No biggie there Brendie.


  • #7365
    McMurphy
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    It appears Stanno going to fall on his sword regarding PAC.

    That seems imminent, sources say.

    Unable to get definite confirmation, but inside sources have indicated in that direction.

    Morning Brenner - can I just ask, by "sources" do you mean "hunch plucked from your nether regions"?


  • #7366
    FrancieBrady
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    McMurphy wrote: »
    Morning Brenner - can I just ask, by "sources" do you mean "haunch plucked from your nether regions"?

    Brendi's 'sources' are not week specific. They said the same thing last week.


  • #7367
    blanch152
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    Ireland2020 wrote: »
    If we hadn't have bailed the banks who robbed people and continue to do we might be in a completely different situation.

    You can read Sinn Féins alternative budgets every year on their website, you obvs havnt so when you do we can discuss that

    I eventually found them in my local library in the fiction section.

    The numbers didn't add up in any of them.


  • #7368
    jm08
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    It appears Stanno going to fall on his sword regarding PAC.

    That seems imminent, sources say.

    Unable to get definite confirmation, but inside sources have indicated in that direction.
    Really? I'd be surprised bearing in mind that a former FF Chair of PAC has said on RTE Drive time that the PAC is meant to be cross party and independent from party political influence and it as already accepted an apology from him. If he is to be punished, it should be in the Dail that he is censored.


  • #7369
    blanch152
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    I said that once the faux woke crowd ( you know the ones who invent words like 'heavies') got after him, he was toast. No biggie there Brendie.

    There isn't a single person outside the membership of Sinn Fein who has publicly supported Stanley.

    A sincere apology to Varadkar is the minimum he has to do. Leo cleverly switching the focus to Mary-Lou's failure to pick up on it, just like on Holohan.

    More attacks on Leo, like we have seen on here this morning, just won't cut it.

    He is gay and of Indian heritage, get over it, stop the dog-whistle stuff, that is the message that should be going out from Mary-Lou to her party. He has been a problem to Sinn Fein oldies from the start. Because his great-grandparents didn't fight in 1916, the uber-nationalists just don't like him. I have previously spoken about the nastiness of the ideology of exclusionary nationalism as practiced by Sinn Fein. The attitude to Varadkar shows this up clearly.


  • #7370
    blanch152
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    jm08 wrote: »
    Really? I'd be surprised bearing in mind that a former FF Chair of PAC has said on RTE Drive time that the PAC is meant to be cross party and independent from party political influence and it as already accepted an apology from him. If he is to be punished, it should be in the Dail that he is censored.

    Has it? The vice-chair of the PAC is on record to say it doesn't go far enough.


  • #7371
    Ireland2020
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    There isn't a single person outside the membership of Sinn Fein who has publicly supported Stanley.

    A sincere apology to Varadkar is the minimum he has to do. Leo cleverly switching the focus to Mary-Lou's failure to pick up on it, just like on Holohan.

    More attacks on Leo, like we have seen on here this morning, just won't cut it.

    He is gay and of Indian heritage, get over it, stop the dog-whistle stuff, that is the message that should be going out from Mary-Lou to her party. He has been a problem to Sinn Fein oldies from the start. Because his great-grandparents didn't fight in 1916, the uber-nationalists just don't like him. I have previously spoken about the nastiness of the ideology of exclusionary nationalism as practiced by Sinn Fein. The attitude to Varadkar shows this up clearly.

    Do you believe what you write?

    Nobody gives a **** Leo is Indian Gay Trans whatever

    People have issues with him lying and misleading the Dáil


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  • #7372
    FrancieBrady
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    There isn't a single person outside the membership of Sinn Fein who has publicly supported Stanley.

    Self serving bull**** as usual from you.
    Fianna Fáil's Marc MacSharry said while the comments were very inappropriate and insensitive, Mr Stanley was a good chairperson and should not resign.

    While critical of the tweet, Labour's Sean Sherlock and Independent Verona Murphy also said he had apologised and should remain as PAC Chair.

    Fine Gael's Alan Dillon said it was a personal choice for Mr Stanley, while Green TD Neasa Hourigan declined to comment.


  • #7373
    blanch152
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Self serving bull**** as usual from you.

    You don't agree that his tweet was inappropriate and insensitive. In fact, you have consistently denied that the tweet had anything to do with Leo's sexuality. Nobody outside of Sinn Fein believes that, which is the point I am making.

    Everyone sees the tweet for what it was.

    Similarly, while people outside Sinn Fein might recognise his right to hold an opinion that Warrenpoint was a good thing, none of them share that opinion.


  • #7374
    Ireland2020
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    You don't agree that his tweet was inappropriate and insensitive. In fact, you have consistently denied that the tweet had anything to do with Leo's sexuality. Nobody outside of Sinn Fein believes that, which is the point I am making.

    Everyone sees the tweet for what it was.

    Similarly, while people outside Sinn Fein might recognise his right to hold an opinion that Warrenpoint was a good thing, none of them share that opinion.

    "There isn't a single person outside the membership of Sinn Fein who has publicly supported Stanley"

    Why did you lie?


  • #7375
    FrancieBrady
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    You don't agree that his tweet was inappropriate and insensitive. In fact, you have consistently denied that the tweet had anything to do with Leo's sexuality. Nobody outside of Sinn Fein believes that, which is the point I am making.

    Everyone sees the tweet for what it was.

    Similarly, while people outside Sinn Fein might recognise his right to hold an opinion that Warrenpoint was a good thing, none of them share that opinion.

    People outside SF have accepted his apology and don't require his resignation.

    You just lied through your teeth again and are now pivoting to something else.

    I think both his tweets were insensitive and vulgar. I do not think, on the basis of his explanation that the second one was homophobic as many don't BECAUSE if it was his resignation would be called for.


  • #7376
    blanch152
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    Ireland2020 wrote: »
    "There isn't a single person outside the membership of Sinn Fein who has publicly supported Stanley"

    Why did you lie?

    I didn't lie. Not a single person outside of the membership of Sinn Fein has publicly supported Stanley. Not one of them has said he was right to tweet what he tweeted.

    Some are showing sympathy for him, or playing down the seriousness of it, but not a single one have said that his tweets were right.


  • #7377
    blanch152
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    People outside SF have accepted his apology and don't require his resignation.

    You just lied through your teeth again and are now pivoting to something else.

    I think both his tweets were insensitive and vulgar. I do not think, on the basis of his explanation that the second one was homophobic as many don't BECAUSE if it was his resignation would be called for.

    By definition, if they accepted his apology, they acknowledged that he was wrong, and therefore they didn't support him in his original tweet.


  • #7378
    FrancieBrady
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    I didn't lie. Not a single person outside of the membership of Sinn Fein has publicly supported Stanley. Not one of them has said he was right to tweet what he tweeted.

    Some are showing sympathy for him, or playing down the seriousness of it, but not a single one have said that his tweets were right.

    Who 'inside' SF has said his tweets were right?


  • #7379
    Brendan Bendar
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    Ireland2020 wrote: »
    Do you believe what you write?

    Nobody gives a **** Leo is Indian Gay Trans whatever

    People have issues with him lying and misleading the Dáil

    People have issues with Stanley’s activities on social media as well.

    The Twitter account ‘disappeared’ very quickly.

    I certainly would’t put much weight on anything MacSharry says.

    Like she bottled the interview with CB, MaryLou is bottling this issue.

    Anyway... decent people don’t want that rubbish from the chairman of any committee much less the PAC.

    Has anyone the courage to stand up and be counted, and show leadership to the electorate.

    ML clearly hasn’t.


  • #7380
    smurgen
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    People outside SF have accepted his apology and don't require his resignation.

    You just lied through your teeth again and are now pivoting to something else.

    I think both his tweets were insensitive and vulgar. I do not think, on the basis of his explanation that the second one was homophobic as many don't BECAUSE if it was his resignation would be called for.

    The anti vax stuff too. Time to put certain posters on mute. Consistently lieing without evidence. A waste of time.


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  • #7381
    jm08
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    There isn't a single person outside the membership of Sinn Fein who has publicly supported Stanley.

    A sincere apology to Varadkar is the minimum he has to do. Leo cleverly switching the focus to Mary-Lou's failure to pick up on it, just like on Holohan.

    More attacks on Leo, like we have seen on here this morning, just won't cut it.

    He is gay and of Indian heritage, get over it, stop the dog-whistle stuff, that is the message that should be going out from Mary-Lou to her party. He has been a problem to Sinn Fein oldies from the start. Because his great-grandparents didn't fight in 1916, the uber-nationalists just don't like him. I have previously spoken about the nastiness of the ideology of exclusionary nationalism as practiced by Sinn Fein. The attitude to Varadkar shows this up clearly.
    Hang on a second there. You forgetting that Leo has an Irish mother whose family have strong war of Independence credentials (and for the record Sinn Fein had nothing to do with 1916. On Leo's father's side, were not two of his uncles imprisoned by the British Inthe fight for Indian independence? Worth noting that Leo's father supported Fianna Fail As well, not Fine Gael!
    It's pretty pathetic of you to accuse others of dog whistling using Leo's Indian heritage while completely ignoring his Irish heritage from his mother's side. There seems to be a touch of misogyny here in your post.
    Has the PAC asked him to resign?


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