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Peter Casey to contest the European elections

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    #152
    Plumbthedepths
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    Phoebas wrote:
    There is nobody disputing that she was ill.


    Apparently according to the Cambridge means, I have read or heard but not sure if its true. ;-)


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    #153
    Plumbthedepths
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    mgn wrote:
    The same Ming said before he got elected as a TD was that politicians in this country was getting paid to much and he would only take half of a TDs salary if he got elected and the other half going to local causes.I can't recall where this money went.The same clown has no problem taking his full MEP salary + expenses now.So much for the promise to only take half his salary.


    Did he make the same promise of his MEPs salary?


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    #154
    Phoebas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Both Casey and Ming are looking to be elected in a constituency that will cover all of Ireland's EU land border after Brexit.

    We need more serious politicians the likes of Mairead McGuinness, not populists like Casey or Ming.


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    #155
    mgn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Did he make the same promise of his MEPs salary?

    What changed overnight from politicians getting paid to much.


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    #156
    eagle eye
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    FrancieBrady wrote:
    The bitterness is strong there, I'll give you that. Not only do you demean the president but those who voted for him too. Well done
    If Michael D wasn't in the race he'd have won by a bigger margin that Michael D did.
    I'm a huge fan of Michael D but I like Casey too. I'll bite for Casey for Europe. Ideally I'd like some younger,smoother candidate to take up his mandate but I'll still give Casey my no.1 for Europe.


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    #157
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    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Surely Brian Crowley must really infuriate you?

    Any right-thinking person should be infuriated by Crowley. One of the biggest charlatans in Irish political history, putting himself up for a role he full well he wasn't well enough to do, yet continuing to draw a full salary for as long as possible with fúck all return from it.

    As for Casey - seems like a total spoofer. A few "edgy" comments about travellers and being marginally less cringeworthy than Seán Gallagher does not make you a competent politician. If he cared so much about "fixing" the traveller issue then he'd be running for local elections or for the Dáil. Can't see what he'd achieve in the EU parliament other than cosying up to the Brexiters/Afd/Front National etc. for the sake of a few column inches.


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    #158
    Plumbthedepths
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    Phoebas wrote:
    We need more serious politicians the likes of Mairead McGuinness, not populists like Casey or Ming.


    Like the former Rose of Tralee who is running for FG Maria Walsh?


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    #159
    recedite
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    Ming stands for burning the bogs, burning the ganja weed, and not burning the proposed asylum seeker DP centre in Rooskey.
    So that's 1 out of 3 for upholding the law.


    The bogs.
    What the environmentalists found and photographed was utter devastation. That last remaining 1% of raised bogs was being savagely destroyed by mechanical turf-harvesting for short-term gain, with no effective action whatsoever being taken by the Government to enforce restrictions.
    Rooskey. Here he is at 2.30 mins


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOM68dSD8Nc


    He had a good vote harvesting angle, but I suspect it has gone slightly outdated nowadays.


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    #160
    Moghead
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    recedite wrote: »
    Ming stands for burning the bogs, burning the ganja weed, and not burning the proposed asylum seeker DP centre in Rooskey.
    So that's 1 out of 3 for upholding the law.


    The bogs.

    Rooskey. Here he is at 2.30 mins


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOM68dSD8Nc


    He had a good vote harvesting angle, but I suspect it has gone slightly outdated nowadays.

    Isn't the lad who made that video a middle aged dole sponger who lives with his mam?


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    #161
    donkeykong5
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    Peter Casey is on tonight show now. Tv3


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    #162
    Jizique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Jizique


    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Peter Casey is on tonight show now. Tv3

    He is showing his idiocy


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    #163
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    Jizique wrote: »
    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Peter Casey is on tonight show now. Tv3

    He is showing his idiocy
    At least he can talk properly . That ming is giving me a headache with that high pitched screeching.


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    #164
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,832 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    At least he can talk properly . .

    Yeh? :)

    I have never heard a more hesitant, dithering politician in my life. He is unique in his delivery.


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    #165
    donkeykong5
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    At least he can talk properly . .

    Yeh? :)

    I have never heard a more hesitant, dithering politician in my life. He is unique in his delivery.
    Better than the high pitched screeching going on for the last 15 minutes between ming and the woman sitting beside him. Kids in school would get detention if they carried on like that


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    #166
    FrancieBrady
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    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Better than the high pitched screeching going on for the last 15 minutes between ming and the woman sitting beside him. Kids in school would get detention if they carried on like that

    At least they can start a sentence and finish it after making a coherent point..even if you disagree with it.
    Casey was the same during the Presidential campaign.
    As to his stuff on the Euro...cringe tbh.
    Our safety net would be that if it went tits up, we wouldn't be buying Mercs and BMW's from the Germans.


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    #167
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Better than the high pitched screeching going on for the last 15 minutes between ming and the woman sitting beside him. Kids in school would get detention if they carried on like that

    At least they can start a sentence and finish it after making a coherent point..even if you disagree with it.
    Casey was the same during the Presidential campaign.
    As to his stuff on the Euro...cringe tbh.
    Our safety net would be that if it went tits up, we wouldn't be buying Mercs and BMW's from the Germans.
    Casey got second in the presidential election . So your statement doesn't make sense over the way he speaks. Prefer him any day to high pitched squeaks from Higgins.


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    #168
    FrancieBrady
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    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Casey got second in the presidential election . So your statement doesn't make sense over the way he speaks. Prefer him any day to high pitched squeaks from Higgins.

    No, it just means 23% of the population think it is acceptable that a man who can't seem to put a cogent point together is capable of being a president.

    Seriously, what was he on about with his children and meat eating?

    Does he base his environmental policy on what happens around his breakfast table?


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    #169
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Casey got second in the presidential election . So your statement doesn't make sense over the way he speaks. Prefer him any day to high pitched squeaks from Higgins.

    No, it just means 23% of the population think it is acceptable that a man who can't seem to put a cogent point together is capable of being a president.

    Seriously, what was he on about with his children and meat eating?

    Does he base his environmental policy on what happens around his breakfast table?
    Hes a family man. His children mean the world to him. A really nice genuine guy. Unlike most of the others.


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    #170
    FrancieBrady
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    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Hes a family man. His children mean the world to him. A really nice genuine guy. Unlike most of the others.

    That's environmental policy???

    What do you know about 'the others' relations with their families and what is lacking in them?


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    #171
    Arghus
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    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Hes a family man. His children mean the world to him. A really nice genuine guy. Unlike most of the others.

    I was beginning to think it was time to give up on this thread, but there could be more comedy gold to come yet.


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    #172
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Hes a family man. His children mean the world to him. A really nice genuine guy. Unlike most of the others.

    That's four posts in a row where you haven't actually said anything about either man's arguments.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #173
    eagle eye
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    FrancieBrady wrote:
    No, it just means 23% of the population think it is acceptable that a man who can't seem to put a cogent point together is capable of being a president.
    He was best in the debates I seen. He came across as much mire intelligent than all bar Michael D.
    He is well able to talk and explain himself.


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    #174
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Hes a family man. His children mean the world to him. A really nice genuine guy. Unlike most of the others.

    That's four posts in a row where you haven't actually said anything about either man's arguments.
    Sorry to upset you all. I think Peter Casey is exactly what Ireland needs after the last 4 years of pcbrigade protected snowflake agenda. People having to think before they open their mouths incase they offend someone. Every word they say been scrutinised. Its actually worse now than UK. He would be amazing as taoiseach . Over and out.


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    #175
    Ulysses Gaze
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    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Sorry to upset you all. I think Peter Casey is exactly what Ireland needs after the last 4 years of pcbrigade protected snowflake agenda. People having to think before they open their mouths incase they offend someone. Every word they say been scrutinised. Its actually worse now than UK. He would be amazing as taoiseach . Over and out.

    People really should think before they speak anyway as a matter of course.


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    #176
    Arghus
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    Imagine having to think before you open your mouth.

    If that isn't the sign of the impending leftist facist state I don't know what is!


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    #177
    Ulysses Gaze
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    Arghus wrote: »
    Imagine having to think before you open your mouth.

    If that isn't the sign of the impending leftist facist state I don't know what is!

    It's all part of the Marxist/Communist/NWO/1984 One World Government plan.


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    #178
    Arghus
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    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    It's all part of the Marxist/Communist/NWO/1984 One World Government plan.

    What we need right now is a really nice genuine guy to save us from this fate worse than empathy.


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    #179
    FrancieBrady
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    eagle eye wrote: »
    He was best in the debates I seen. He came across as much mire intelligent than all bar Michael D.
    He is well able to talk and explain himself.

    Well let's crunch what he did in that debate tonight, shall we?

    He drew attention to himself, smiling and laughing, as another panelist explained their policy: he got the floor and talked about how 4 of his children ate meat and the 5th didn't - so there was nothing to be worried about, he was more concerned about single use plastics and a whale who had turned up with x amount of plastic in his stomach. And when he was interrupted by somebody who said that it 'was all linked' he said, smiling, 'tell that to the whale'.

    You think this is a sign of 'intelligence'?


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    #180
    eagle eye
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    FrancieBrady wrote:
    Well let's crunch what he did in that debate tonight, shall we?
    I didn't see the debate and I'm unwilling to accept your word for how it went because you've shown a dislike for the man in this thread all along.


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    #181
    tuxy
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    Why was he especially popular with voters in the Rathkeale area? :confused:


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