Local/ EU elections who will you Vote for

I am sorry but I feel FG running that number of candidates with migrant background in the elections is agenda based same as FF running Caio Benicio just says lets jump on woke bandwagon, I would prefer to see them run as Independents not be used by the political parties

The Irish government currently gives funding to political parties that run people of diversity as candidates

Why just why?

Same with all those bloody women candidates presumably? And the gay candidates too?

Why can't they all run as independents without any structure or supports, so that their chances of success are lower?

Touché

FG aware of the s#itshow the current government caused with allowing IPAs come in droves and droves to Treasure Ireland want to show that by putting migrant background candidates (who came here legally or born here, worked hard etc., and could be doctors or engineers) hoping the people will see them as a good diverse working political party to distract from the mess they have made b

All I'm saying is I think it is agenda based imho for them, practically using these candidates that is why they should ditch the parties and run independently

These candidates are no fools. They don't need you to save them from being used.

They know exactly what's going on, and they're not limited to FG.

You'll be delighted to hear that there is an Indian driving instructor running as an independent candidate in Sandyford. Might be hard for voters to get past his surname though - Panicker.

But you brought it up in relation to candidates who had faced racial abuse instead of candidates with actual criminal records.… Basically you just seem intent on smearing migrant candidates.

Why do you prefer people of a certain skin colour do or do not do a certain thing?

There's a word for that

The person you are quoting specifically said they are not voting on skin colour.

You then then proceeded to smear and slander this person based on a total falsehood that you invented.

I will consider anyone except the far right …. I would vote each and every candidate from SF, FF, FG, Labour, PBP, SDs, moderate Independents, etc. but would deliberately leave blank the far right idiots …. that is parties like Ireland First, Freedom Party, National Party, National Alliance, Identity Ireland, The Irish People, and Independents who hold far right values …. these people are representing a dirty unhelpful warmongering ideology ….their heroes include the likes of Trump, Hitler and Netanyahu …. some candidates of these parties even have criminal backgrounds ….

I hate every conversation being hijacked by the anti-woke brigade …. people need to know what anti-woke means …. it means the sick, the disabled, people who lose their job through no fault of their own, the depressed, and many other groups would be entitled to NOTHING should such people ever gain power …. that is what far right means …. conscription, war, dictatorship, racism, nationalist/religious/other extremism, terrorism …. that is what anti-woke means …. that is why I would not vote for far right dirt parties …. I'd vote anything from the far left to the normal right …. but never these far right clowns …. how dare they threaten our police, our politicians and our less fortunate people … how dare they encourage thugs to burn down buildings and spread blatant lies about everything from Covid to migrants …. how dare they poison the minds of the gullible …. how dare they use Trump's dirty money to spread his evil into this country …..

Ya, he's viewed as good pr for the party. Meanwhile a party running 5% of candidates who are migrants is just statistically not significant and to be expected as demographics change. Meanwhile you imply the migrant candidates are criminals with no actual evidence which translates to you having a pretty horrible agenda. You don't care that the people who are campaigning against migrants have ranks filled with criminals.

Maybe not in this election cycle but your worst nightmare will come true at some point unless the next Government get a handle on the number of illegal migrants coming here because if they don't people will vote for parties like the IFP.

Voters here are no different to people in other European countries, its just we were a bit late arriving to the illegal migration party.

As I've said previously anyone with a criminal background should not be running whether for any party or as an independent

And you tried to imply entirely innocent people were criminals instead of actually discussing the criminals that are actively running. You want to tar a group. Upon being called out, you moved onto taking issue with 5% of FG's candidates being migrants. Basically whatever you view it, they're part of a nefarious and are somehow bad people for wanting to participate in local government..