The National Party

He probably is decent by fascist standards.

It's a bit like saying a pedophile only abused one child…

If being confused about one's gender is grounds for being locked up in a mental home the surely the consequences for people who believe a man could walk on water, turn water into wine, loafs into fishes and, last but certainly not least, came back from the dead should be much worse?

Who among us hasn't dressed up as a goblin and felt up some bald guy?

Once I decide, I will not be posting it on here for ppl like you to sneer and throw insults at.

Who will you be voting for Princess?

Would you not just spoil your vote in that case?

It's probably better than voting for someone who you don't actually want to be elected. That's a dangerous road. I get where you're coming from/your frustration though.

Spoiling your vote is a legitimate democratic decision imo.

Small scale, imagine a town of 1000 people. There's a few candidates but nobody worth voting for. Imagine the majority of people took your approach, all individually thinking

"I'll vote for candidate 3, we all know he's a racist and x,y,z and I don't want want him elected, but it'll give the others a scare and they'll amend their policies slightly, to more reasonable ground"

Lo and behold, other voters process based on this logic and this strategy ends up mistakenly electing the mad, undesirable candidate that nobody actually wants.

Now, imagine the same town and individuals took the approach of spoiling their votes thinking "I don't like candidate 1 and 2 based on their past or current performance, and candidate 3 is a madman who is too extreme for me, none of them are suitable"

The town ends up with more than 50% spoiling their votes. It is THAT that will make the mainstream/more reasonable candidates assess their policies and really listen to the people when the election has to be re-run.

I may as well not vote as spoil my vote.

I 100% see this as the only way to legitimately register a protest against the current governments approach to immigration, its just so bad that something needs to change and this can be the opportunity to give them the kick that they need.

The only candidate who has spoken sense on this topic is Michael McNamara, hes excellent, intelligent and balanced but would be wasted in Europe unfortunately but his work deserves it.

We'll see when the votes are counted, eh.

Worse. People did that with Hitler.

ffs

(a) that'll never happen

(b) even if 99% of people spoiled their votes, there'd still be a winner elected and the fewer valid votes cast, the more nutty the winner will get.

(c ) it'll change nothing as the TV Deflector TD or whoever, will rant and rave but achieve nothing so will be totally ignored by everyone else.

(yep Donegal really did elect a TV Deflector TD - at least he wasn't a racist, as far as we know)

Only if you consider everybody who doesn't favour the reversal of Brexit to be "delighted that they have left the EU". If you ask them whether they are "delighted that they have left the EU" I don't think you're going to get a 34% endorsement.

Still, this kind of wilful misrepresentation of the truth is the whole foundation of the Brexit movement. Why stop now?

Now, this isn't in any way related to Irish elections nor do I disagree with anything you wrote - but Russia used to have a system where you could vote "I oppose everyone" and in some backwater town that was the winning result, because the voters thought all candidates were crooks.

I guess they don't have that system or actual elections any more.

Indeed. What makes it a misrepresentation is the fact that it's false.

ppl should view Gavin Pepper latest videos regarding an alleged attempted child abduction in dublin yesterday.

People are absolutely sick of what is going on.