What would you consider good results for tomorrows Euro Elections?

turgon

I thought it would be interesting to start a thread where people would say what they would consider a "successful" Euro election tomorrow.

Being a constituent of Ireland South, my priority is getting rid of Sinnot, and my ballot paper will put Alan Kelly second for this purpose even though I dont really want him. Ideally the two FG and Crowley for me. You see, I consider FG the least worst.

In other constituencies I would like to see Libertas and Sinn Fein (and Higgins) roundly trounced. These extremists bear the height of unhelpfulness, and Mary Lou's inability to answer a straight question properly on Q&A underlines this. However this dislike has to be consolidated with my dissatisfaction with FF. But at the end of the day, I would prefer to see Eoin Ryan win the Dublin seat rather than the other two socialists.

So altogether (and rather optimistically):
Ireland South - 2FG; 1 FF (Brian Crowley)
Ireland East - 2FG; 1 Labour
Ireland North-West - 2FG; 1 Ind (Marian Harkin)
Dublin - 1FG; 1 Labour; 1FF

Total 7 FG; 2 Labour; 2 FF; 1 Ind

PopeBuckfastXVI

Ireland South - 2FG; 1 Lab (Alan Kelly)
Ireland East - 2FG; 1 Lab
Ireland North-West - 1FG (Higgins); 1 Lab; 1 Ind (Marian Harkin)
Dublin - 1FG; 1 Labour; 1FF

Scofflaw

Hmm...that's actually quite a tricky one.

Dublin is easiest: I'd like to see de Rossa and de Burca, and would prefer Gay Mitchell over Mary-Lou. However, I don't mind Mary-Lou.

The rest...overall, I'd like to see more Labour, more Greens, no Libertas. Mild preference for FG over FF. That's about as far as it goes, really.

cordially,
Scofflaw

passive

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Ireland South - 2FG; 1 Lab (Alan Kelly)
Ireland East - 2FG; 1 Lab
Ireland North-West - 1FG (Higgins); 1 Lab; 1 Ind (Marian Harkin)
Dublin - 1FG; 1 Labour; 1FF

Nice sig

Hitman Actual

Personally I'm not too bothered about the 'mix' as long as there are as many Pro-EU (and Pro-Lisbon) candidates elected. Apart from Mairead McGuinness (the star of the campaign, imo), no one has really stood out from the crowd as being any more capable than the others. Nessa Childers and Susan O'Keefe have both impressed with their honesty and integrity, but I can't see either of them making it. I would like to see Eoin Ryan re-elected, though, as he does seem to have a genuinely good understanding of EU affairs, and a good work ethic to boot. But he really is in a dog-fight.

is_that_so

No Libertas or Kathy Sinnott, and ambivalent on Mary Lou seeing as Eoin Ryan appears to be quite inept, otherwise fairly indifferent. I don't see the makeup making a huge difference anyway.

upmeath

No Libertas, No Mary Lou, No Patricia McKenna, No Kathy Sinnott.
(And no bad haircuts, I refer to a prominent FF candidate in Ireland South)

More Labour and more Green please.

I love the way FG like to think they're in a position of power in Europe because they're aligned with the EPP. The EPP has just under 300 members in the Parliament, Fine Gael are a drop in the ocean, even if all 12 Irish MEPs were Fine Gael they'd still only make up 4.1% of the EPP's voting bloc. Power me hole.

cooperguy

Libertas anihilated across europe would be nice.

irish_bob

Hitman Actual wrote: »

Personally I'm not too bothered about the 'mix' as long as there are as many Pro-EU (and Pro-Lisbon) candidates elected. Apart from Mairead McGuinness (the star of the campaign, imo), no one has really stood out from the crowd as being any more capable than the others. Nessa Childers and Susan O'Keefe have both impressed with their honesty and integrity, but I can't see either of them making it. I would like to see Eoin Ryan re-elected, though, as he does seem to have a genuinely good understanding of EU affairs, and a good work ethic to boot. But he really is in a dog-fight.

while i like and respect mairead mcguinness , what was so stand out about her campaign , she could have phoned in her campaign and still topped the poll, she was the surest of sure things in any euro constituency

damonjewel

from a european perspective I hope the 'protest vote' doesn't transpire to a rise of seats for the extreme far right. However early polls from the netherlands would suggest that it has.

sparkydee

I hope mary lou doesn't get a seat. Also agree with the point on kathy sinnott i don't want to see her re-elected. They're the two results i'd be looking for.

Hitman Actual

irish_bob wrote: »

while i like and respect mairead mcguinness , what was so stand out about her campaign , she could have phoned in her campaign and still topped the poll, she was the surest of sure things in any euro constituency

Just that in any of the debates I listened to (and I think I caught most of them), she 'owned' her opponents in every one, with calm, measured, euro-centric arguments. No one could touch her, even O'Malley in agriculture/CAP arguments (the one area he should have had a good grounding in).