Peter Casey to contest the European elections

Plumbthedepths · 11-04-2019 10:16pm

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. ;-)

Plumbthedepths · 11-04-2019 10:16pm

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?

Phoebas · 11-04-2019 10:20pm

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.

mgn · 11-04-2019 10:24pm

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Did he make the same promise of his MEPs salary?

What changed overnight from politicians getting paid to much.

eagle eye · 11-04-2019 10:27pm

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.

Plumbthedepths · 11-04-2019 10:31pm

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?

11-04-2019 10:31pm

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.

recedite · 11-04-2019 10:46pm

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.

Moghead · 11-04-2019 11:04pm

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?

donkeykong5 · 11-04-2019 11:06pm

Peter Casey is on tonight show now. Tv3

Jizique · 11-04-2019 11:17pm

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Peter Casey is on tonight show now. Tv3

He is showing his idiocy

donkeykong5 · 11-04-2019 11:20pm

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.

FrancieBrady · 11-04-2019 11:25pm

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.

donkeykong5 · 11-04-2019 11:29pm

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

FrancieBrady · 11-04-2019 11:39pm

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.

donkeykong5 · 11-04-2019 11:54pm

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.

FrancieBrady · 11-04-2019 11:59pm

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?

donkeykong5 · 12-04-2019 12:15am

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.

FrancieBrady · 12-04-2019 12:17am

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?

Arghus · 12-04-2019 12:22am

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.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-04-2019 12:27am

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.

eagle eye · 12-04-2019 12:30am

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.

donkeykong5 · 12-04-2019 12:33am

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.

Ulysses Gaze · 12-04-2019 12:34am

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.

Arghus · 12-04-2019 12:36am

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!

Ulysses Gaze · 12-04-2019 12:38am

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.

Arghus · 12-04-2019 12:42am

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.

FrancieBrady · 12-04-2019 12:42am

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'?

eagle eye · 12-04-2019 1:07am

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.

tuxy · 12-04-2019 1:10am

Why was he especially popular with voters in the Rathkeale area?

FrancieBrady · 12-04-2019 1:16am

eagle eye wrote: »

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.

I don't dislike the man, he seems affable and pleasant. I dislike his elevation to some sort of saviour because he is totally out of his depth.

Cienciano · 12-04-2019 1:21am

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.

You are telling us that how nice someone's voice sounds is a factor in who you vote for

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-04-2019 1:23am

donkeykong5 wrote: »

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.

Fair enough, but what's this got to do with Ming's voice?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-04-2019 1:24am

Double post. Can't delete it because I'm on mobile boards

John DoeReMi · 12-04-2019 1:57am

Pity about Casey. I voted for him in the Presidential election and hoped he'd run for the Dáil but alas. I suppose we'll have to look elsewhere for our right wing saviour. I had high hopes for Leo too but instead of looking after the people who get up early, it looks more like FG are going to continue throwing money at welfare and make it even more appealing as a lifestyle choice. The latest welfare nonsense now is so called "period poverty". Apparently poor unfortunate females the length and breadth of Ireland are so destitute now they can't even afford sanitary products, so we'll have to start providing them free to the welfare lifestyle brigade. I'd love to know how my long dead Mum and my older sisters were able to afford sanitary products. They grew up in the 40's and 50's when the country was an economic basket case. How long before we start hearing about toilet paper poverty, toothpaste poverty etc. etc.

bobbysands81 · 12-04-2019 2:09am

Edgware wrote: »

The media and liberals cant accept that he is telling the truth about travellers etc. The usuql ****s will roar about racism but the man on the ground knows Casey is telling it as it is

So let’s vote for him because he doesn’t like Travellers?

Necro · 12-04-2019 2:17am

bobbysands81 wrote:

So letâ€™s vote for him because he doesnâ€™t like Travellers?

Did he ever say that? I know it gets construed that way regularly. There's a big difference in saying (correctly) they dont deserve ethnicity status and saying you dont like them.

Like for example, me. I agree the ethnic status applied to them is nonsense.

I also dont like them.

That's definitive. I dont recall Casey stating openly he dislikes them though.

Varik · 12-04-2019 2:46am

Rather he ran for dail, the status quo in the EU parliament is already going to get a shake up without him.

12-04-2019 3:04am

One thing he has done is bring back to the forefront of my mind all the issues that are important to me. Local elections are coming up shortly and all those knocking on my door looking for my vote better have some answers to

how they would deal with an issue like the houses in Tipperary that are still vacant.
How will they deal with anti social behaviour in the area.
What incentives do they propose to regenerate towns that have still to recover from the crash and how do they intend to turn those ideas into reality.
How many housing developments whose bonds were always in place are still to be taken over and what timescale will they commit to for their taking in charge.
Do they know how much is owed to the council from rent arrears and how do they intend recouping it.
How much local property tax do they think I should be paying for my home.

ChikiChiki · 12-04-2019 4:01am

mgn wrote: »

Hard to vote on anything when he spends most of his time jogging around Castlerea.

I've family down that way and heard this aswell. Jaysus it really does seem like a handy enough number over there. Brian Crowley is another one who has milked the bejaysus out of Europe with little consequence.

Honestly might run myself some day! Chancers and charlatans seem to be ruling the roost so if you can't beat them you might as well join them. :-)

pjohnson · 12-04-2019 6:55am

bobbysands81 wrote: »

So let’s vote for him because he doesn’t like Travellers?

He knew the lowest common denominator would gobble it up.

12-04-2019 7:08am

pjohnson wrote: »

He knew the lowest common denominator would gobble it up.

^^^^^^

The irony of calling 23% of voters who gave him their first preference “the lowest common denominator” based on something he never actually said.

pjohnson · 12-04-2019 7:11am

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

^^^^^^

The irony of calling 23% of voters who gave him their first preference “the lowest common denominator” based on something he never actually said.

Just coincidence that all who happily moan/complain about travellers just happened to jump on his bandwagon eh?

I said he only got 23% because he didn't commit. Needed the bang the anti-immigration, anti-dole & anti-gay/trans drums to win. It was publicity stunt he never got cranky enough.

12-04-2019 7:16am

Let’s go back to when it all started.

What is your opinion on the houses that are STILL lying vacant in Tipperary?

Annasopra · 12-04-2019 7:18am

donkeykong5 wrote: »

At least he can talk properly .

What? Peter Casey? Are you having a laugh?

Subcomandante Marcos · 12-04-2019 7:19am

Moghead wrote: »

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

Probably has his British army pension Bo keep him in batteries too.

Annasopra · 12-04-2019 7:23am

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.

Clearly you have never seen Peter Casey talk. He comes across as bumbling, hesitant and inarticulate.

eagle eye · 12-04-2019 7:38am

Joeytheparrot wrote:

Clearly you have never seen Peter Casey talk. He comes across as bumbling, hesitant and inarticulate.

I've seen him like that once, on the Late Late show when he clearly drunk. Any other time I've seen him he spoke well.

Edgware · 12-04-2019 8:20am

eagle eye wrote: »

I've seen him like that once, on the Late Late show when he clearly drunk. Any other time I've seen him he spoke well.

Maybe it was you that was drunk

Jackman25 · 12-04-2019 8:28am

pjohnson wrote: »

Just coincidence that all who happily moan/complain about travellers just happened to jump on his bandwagon eh?

I said he only got 23% because he didn't commit. Needed the bang the anti-immigration, anti-dole & anti-gay/trans drums to win. It was publicity stunt he never got cranky enough.

Virtue Signalling nonsense as usual from you. Why don't you run for election on a platform of constantly whining about After Hours. I have never seen someone do so much whinging about a forum and yet post in almost every thread on it. Its almost like you need to be seen to be giving out about it.

I voted for him in the election and I can guarantee I certainly wouldn't have voted for him if there was any anti-gay/trans commentary from him and I imagine many more would have been the same. But it suits your ilk to paint a broad brush over anyone that might have agreed somewhat with his comments on travellers.

Peter Casey to contest the European elections

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