James Brown wrote: » Shocked are you? How bout now? Best do some stretching for the upcoming verbal gymnastics.
James Brown wrote: » People raised issue with varadkar, you start inferring people were homophobic. That kind of carry on takes away from people genuinely fighting for equality.
CrazyFather1 wrote: » Read the back the last few hours of the thread and if you can't see the raging homophobia then ask someone to point it out.
darem93 wrote: » I am gay and I would definitely not consider Leo a champion of LGBT rights in the slightest. As pointed out above, he claimed quite a lot of the glory with gay rights that genuine activists had spent years fighting tooth and nail for. It was the same with abortion rights back in 2018. Leo always does that, he flip flops and seems to only really support something when it looks like the majority of the public agree with him.
James Brown wrote: » Its part of the discussion in which you are included. I'm explaining my issue with you trying to excuse what I described.
blanch152 wrote: » This says it all about you. You are trying to spin something a man said about his vulnerability in coming out into something much more sinister, all for political purposes.
Bubbaclaus wrote: » Sorry, you will need to spell it out for me here. What have I excused exactly in my posts?
James Brown wrote: » If you don't see it, not to worry.
votecounts wrote: » https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1355625820933541891 good news for Leo
[Deleted User] wrote: » Good to see independants rise in numbers
[Deleted User] wrote: » It really isn't. Absolutely pointless members of the dáil
Bubbaclaus wrote: » So you just made up some ****e lie then for no reason. Good man. Off with you.
Deleted User wrote: » It really isn't. Absolutely pointless members of the dáil
smurgen wrote: » Better than the likes of Joesepha Madigan lol.
[Deleted User] wrote: » I feel politically they serve a purpose as otherwise local areas would be left behind and adbandoned by larger parties If the local issues,were being addressed support for indos would drop off and this to me,highlights growing discontent at people being left behind and increasing political awareness of the electorate
James Brown wrote: » What lie? You defended a poster hand waving off the south having the worst numbers in the world.
Natterjack from Kerry wrote: » No. Voting footsoldiers are an essential part of a functioning parliament. No more that a dozen competent representative are required. What is required of the rest is just to have enough of them to dutifully keep voting for the dozen. Madigans and the like, are well up to just pressing a button.
blanch152 wrote: » It is remarkable that Fine Gael have gone from 3rd to 1st in less than a year since the general election. Who would have thought that Leo would be so popular? I see the loyalists with murals have joined the Shinnerbots on Twitter in denouncing him.
blanch152 wrote: » The South doesn't have the worst numbers in the world. Produce the statistics for the last year and show me different. This type of lying is fake news bullsh!t. A day or two of very high numbers does not mean we are the worst in the world over a year. Every country will have been high, depending on when various variants hit their shores. Our proximity to the UK, and our border with Northern Ireland meant we got hit with the UK variant very quickly which pushed us right up. However, once again, our government has got control of the situation, we are already below the countries to the east and north of us, even though they got a headstart with Boris robbing vaccines.
Ireland had world’s highest Covid-19 infection rate last weekhttps://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/ireland-had-world-s-highest-covid-19-infection-rate-last-week-1.4455609
Natterjack from Kerry wrote: » While adequate, a rather featureless MM, with Co-Taoise LV so close and too often a contrast, the unprecedented cases of an FF/FG coalition and the outgoing Taoiseach still in govt, and LV fundamentally better than MM even if not by much, all conspire to make LV look good.
James Brown wrote: » Leo Varadkar stated that his sexuality was why he was against equality for the gay community.
smurgen wrote: » Interesting turn of events on the vaccine from the UK. Looks like FG are again playing politics with people's lives and health. Neale Richmond with a toe curling comment in the final paragraph.
markodaly wrote: » Come again? No, this is not what he said.... Surprise surprise, here we are talking about Leo....again. :rolleyes:
"The Tánaiste admitted to being judgemental of other people before coming out, saying he probably held “conservative social views, almost as a reaction to the fact that, if I have to suppress who I am, then why shouldn’t other people - you know?"
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