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Local Election Season
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So, local election day is upon us once again - what way will you vote?
Me, I'm a natural Green Party voter but they are so useless down here that they can't even muster a candidate - unless I'm missing something? Anyway, after that knave Ciaran Cuffe backed the closure of the Rosslare Strand/Waterford rail link it will be a long time before they get my vote again.
This time my No.1. and only vote, will be going to Annette Byrne-Moran (the florist on Court Street) who I know and is a decent, committed individual - we might be on different ends of the political spectrum but she stands head and shoulders above the other same old chancers standing for Wexford Co.Council.
As for the divorce issue - no affect on me = no vote.
EU election = spoil my vote as I always have done since my first opportunity back in the early 1980s. Anybody else got any opinions?
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Curious as to why you spoil your vote?
I'm not a fan of the Common Market/EEC/EU or any other body that keeps changing its name - Calder Hall/Windscale/Sellafield....I don't favour uncontrolled movement of people within the EU, an EU Superstate or a European Army - so, who could I vote for?
The reasons for the foundation of the Common Market in the interests of promoting peace and ensuring there would be no more European wars were good, but the lunatic expansion that has take place since and the uncontrolled immigration that has been allowed will turn the thing on its head. You did ask. 0 -
I'm not a fan of the Common Market/EEC/EU or any other body that keeps changing its name - Calder Hall/Windscale/Sellafield....I don't favour uncontrolled movement of people within the EU, an EU Superstate or a European Army - so, who could I vote for?
The reasons for the foundation of the Common Market in the interests of promoting peace and ensuring there would be no more European wars were good, but the lunatic expansion that has take place since and the uncontrolled immigration that has been allowed will turn the thing on its head. You did ask.
Agree with a lot of what you say but I stll think that the way to change it is to send people to the European Parliament who have similar views and this means not voting for FF/FG/ Labour /Greens.
I voted to join the EEC in 1972 because it was sold as a chance to join a huge trading block. There were no arguments against having free access to such a market and to be fair, Ireland has gained many benefits from joining.
I have however, voted no in every European referendum since because anybody with half a brain could see that they were designed to centralise the political system in Europe. Ireland is not an independent nation any more but a satellite state, the events of 2007-2012 are evidence of this and of the political treachery of the governments of that time.
However we're in it now and totally dependent upon it, so all we can do is try and influence decisions in the European institutions, the alternative is just unimaginable.
Immigration to Ireland is, as you say, out of control due to our lax border controls and to a legal system which allows virtually unlimited appeals against deportation, paid for by the hard pressed taxpayer and encouraged by lawyers eager to make a fast buck and if all this fails the old human rights card is played. ( Google Pamela Izevbacki)
The vast majority of "asylum seekers" in this country are from countries in sub Saharan Africa and from Asia, not from Syria or Yemen as they woud have us believe, and most of these are here illegally, as there are no direct transport links to these countries and a Visa would, in any case, be required. They must, in that case, have come here through a third country, why then didn't they seek asylum there?
So, in summary, the EU has become a behemoth and influence is unequally distributed to the largest. most powerful members and those powerful member governments, like our own, are hugely influenced by commercial and corporate interests but recently it has been shown how people power can be brought to bear on even the most powerful of these, so why give up what little bit of influence you might have by not voting?0 -
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