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Labour party leader Alan Kelly

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    #62
    jimmyrustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭jimmyrustle


    L1011 wrote: »
    At no stage does he say he recused himself.

    He says he was disinvited as the broadcaster had decided to impose a gender balance.


    You may be reading things that aren't there due to your preconceptions.

    I admit, I was working off memory on my initial post.

    Still shows he hasn't got a pair of balls on him. Not only does he happily agree to his own removal, he boasts about how necessary it was.

    Apparently Mick McCarthy resigned because no women were interviewed to be his successor.

    See, imagine how sad that would be.


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    #63
    jimmyrustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭jimmyrustle


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    They don't represent the people that the Labour Party was set up to protect

    The working class

    Show me one party that does represent the working class.


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    #64
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,835 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Who votes for a plonker like him.
    The people of Raheny who obviously want to end the housing crisis but don't want those new builds near them?


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    #65
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    Tv footage of this 'election' showed clear breaches of the social distancing guidelines. One rule for us, another for the so called leaders.

    One barrister locked in a room in accountancy firm Mazars counted the votes

    Maybe you were looking at footage from Nenagh in 2016?


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    #66
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Was a die-hard Labour voter for years but they lost touch a good while back. Had hoped that Aodhán Ó Ríordáin would get in and I think he could have been the man to turn their fortunes around and at least try to connect with a new generation but now with Kelly I fear it's more of the same and a slide into irrelevance.


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    #67
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,513 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Alan Kelly is a politician who gets things done. People in Ireland prefer spoofers and not people like Kelly. I wish him all the best and I think he’ll make a very good leader in Dáil Éireann


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    #68
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,986 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Nigel Fairservice wrote: »
    Alan Kelly doesn't have much of a likeability factor about him. I always though he came across as quite cold.

    I agree
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #69
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    O riordain should join the Soc Dems, more suited to their uber WOKE agenda


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    #70
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,485 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Alan Kelly is a politician who gets things done. People in Ireland prefer spoofers and not people like Kelly. I wish him all the best and I think he’ll make a very good leader in Dáil Éireann

    His arrogance will be his undoing.
    Hateful ****.
    To have someone like that associated with the Labour Party is a contradiction.


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    #71
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Alan Kelly is a politician who gets things done. People in Ireland prefer spoofers and not people like Kelly. I wish him all the best and I think he’ll make a very good leader in Dáil Éireann
    Alan Kelly is politician who gets his brother to do things


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    #72
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    tayto lover wrote: »
    His arrogance will be his undoing.
    Hateful ****.
    To have someone like that associated with the Labour Party is a contradiction.

    You'll get over it


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    #73
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Alan Kelly is a politician who gets things done. People in Ireland prefer spoofers and not people like Kelly. I wish him all the best and I think he’ll make a very good leader in Dáil Éireann

    Absolutely. They mistake competence for arrogance. The Labour Party has never ran away from government in tough times, and I don’t think they will this time either. A party of principle, and a party of Government.


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    #74
    History Queen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭History Queen


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Absolutely. They mistake competence for arrogance. The Labour Party has never ran away from government in tough times, and I don’t think they will this time either. A party of principle, and a party of Government.

    You might want to tell Alan Kelly that. At the moment he looks to be running away from government.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/alan-kelly-labour-government-formation-5068703-Apr2020/


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    #75
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    O riordain should join the Soc Dems, more suited to their uber WOKE agenda

    I'm a member of the Soc Dems, have to agree. To many woke candidates have infiltrated. That's not the change the country wants.


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    #76
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    jams100 wrote: »
    He seems quite cold and out of touch to me, my abiding memory of him will be this. Celebrating like a mad man when on the same day his party was decimated. Seems like a man of little substance and class.


    He's a nightmare. If Labour want him its good they got him, let's the electorate know what they have become.


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    #77
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,272 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    I'm a member of the Soc Dems, have to agree. To many woke candidates have infiltrated. That's not the change the country wants.

    What did you expect with Shortall as co party leader.

    Donnelly was a big loss to your party.


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    #78
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,797 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    What did you expect with Shortall as co party leader.

    Donnelly was a big loss to your party.

    You couldny get more woke than Donnelly and Shortalls background is the complete opposite of woke.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #79
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    jimmyrustle wrote: »
    I admit, I was working off memory on my initial post.

    Still shows he hasn't got a pair of balls on him. Not only does he happily agree to his own removal, he boasts about how necessary it was.

    Apparently Mick McCarthy resigned because no women were interviewed to be his successor.

    See, imagine how sad that would be.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/they-called-me-gay-dan-oqueer-don-td-aodhan-o-riordain-reveals-bullying-hell-in-school-30699075.html

    surprised he didnt re use this to score sympathy points....looking at his twitter feed, he's such an eye -rolling woke prat

    Shows how unliked he is compared to Kelly


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    #80
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    He’s a donkey, disaster for the party!


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    #81
    jams100
    Registered Users Posts: 766 ✭✭✭jams100


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    What did you expect with Shortall as co party leader.

    Donnelly was a big loss to your party.

    Donnelly was a loss, however he showed his true colours by going straight to Finna Fail. An opportunist looking for a ministerial position is all he is. Completely lost respect for him when he done that. Pure opportunist and careerist move. No shame either, sad cause he did give the impression he wanted to make a positive difference before that


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    #82
    jams100
    Registered Users Posts: 766 ✭✭✭jams100


    That Alan Kelly is everywhere these days. Seemingly on every radio station and several times on TV. The guy just loves the limelight. Just can't take any more of his fake pity and snide remarks at the current government. The only td that really grinds my gears


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    #83
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    jams100 wrote: »
    That Alan Kelly is everywhere these days. Seemingly on every radio station and several times on TV. The guy just loves the limelight. Just can't take any more of his fake pity and snide remarks at the current government. The only td that really grinds my gears

    You would be complaining if he wasn't to be seen or heard.


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    #84
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,513 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Kelly has been brilliant during the lockdown holding a spotlight on lack of cancer services.


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    #85
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    jams100 wrote: »
    That Alan Kelly is everywhere these days. Seemingly on every radio station and several times on TV. The guy just loves the limelight. Just can't take any more of his fake pity and snide remarks at the current government. The only td that really grinds my gears

    Actually turned off the radio the other day when I heard Kelly was coming on.
    Like his predecessor, he seems to have rediscovered the aims of the Labour movement outside the cabinet table, no doubt he'll conveniently lose it again should a return to high office ever reappear. Hypocrite of the highest order, along with Howlin, Burton, Gilmour, Rabbitte et al.


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    #86
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    AK is on a media offensive lately.

    Much more effective than Howlin Brendan IMHO


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    #87
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    he's a joke who blows his gasket every 2nd day https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/miriam-lord-kelly-on-code-red-in-the-search-for-a-covid-19-villain-1.4253869


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    #88
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    AK is on a media offensive lately.

    Much more effective than Howlin Brendan IMHO
    Hollow vessels and all that...


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    #89
    TallyRand
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭TallyRand


    Bowie wrote: »
    He's a nightmare. If Labour want him its good they got him, let's the electorate know what they have become.

    Absolutely, a real sociopath. A politicians politician.


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    #90
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    AK is on a media offensive lately.

    Much more effective than Howlin Brendan IMHO

    A comatose sloth would be more effective than Howlin,


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    #91
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    AK is on a media offensive lately.

    Much more effective than Howlin Brendan IMHO

    yeah he has been a lot more high profile than Howlin who was missing in action a lot of the time in the hope people would forget.

    Kelly seems to have a penchant for latching on to a specific topic and then garnering good media coverage out of it, like Cervical Check and now cancer services during lockdown. He will do a lot to bolster the profile of Labour.

    I still wouldnt trust him though.


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