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Another split - Paul Murphy leaves the Socialist Party

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    #152
    lola85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lola85


    He’s on rte 1 radio for talking absolute gibberish about rising and mobilizing the people.

    As I said how are these people given so much airtime?


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    #153
    nkl12xtw5goz70
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭nkl12xtw5goz70


    The new party already has 59 Twitter followers. Power to the people!


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    #154
    jprender
    Registered Users Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭jprender


    I just read the info on their website.....

    Absolute comedy gold 😆


    Surely nobody takes this seriously do they ?


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    #155
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    lola85 wrote: »
    He’s on rte 1 radio for talking absolute gibberish about rising and mobilizing the people.

    As I said how are these people given so much airtime?

    If a TD sets up a new party/vanity project, they get airtime, especially if they make it convenient for the political correspondents by staging their launch in Buswell's. Doesn't matter whether they're right or left. Even Renua, despite no longer having any elected representatives, were still being given airtime until very recently.


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    #156
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users Posts: 17,853 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    These people must think money grows on trees..

    it does! somebody elses trees!


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    #157
    nkl12xtw5goz70
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭nkl12xtw5goz70


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    it does! somebody elses trees!

    Environmentalists love trees. Especially magic money trees.


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    #158
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    The new party already has 59 Twitter followers. Power to the people!

    5 journalists and 54 robot people Paul just has on standby


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    #159
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    christy c wrote: »
    Why would it be over? Plenty more you could discuss if you wanted such as his economic policies, being elected to break the law, etc.

    But he is "minor league" (I agree BTW), so which politicians are not minor league and can be discussed in detail outside FF & FG?

    You've yet to speak on his policies. Please do. Curious myself.
    lola85 wrote: »
    Strange thing is he and his ilk get a massive amount of airtime and platform from the media.

    I scratch my head that they are on everyday rambling about something.

    It shows which side the media swing to in Ireland.

    No they don't.
    No it doesn't. Are you suggesting the media are bias towards Paul Murphy and Gino?
    Did this include Dobbo and his fools comment re protesters?

    Christy is going to clue us in.


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    #160
    James Brown
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    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    Environmentalists love trees. Especially magic money trees.

    They are called the tax payer and it gets shook quite often.


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    #161
    christy c
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭christy c


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    You've yet to speak on his policies. Please do. Curious myself.

    Absolutely no need to rely on me to provide information about his policies. Some of the recent comments referred to them and he has a shiny new website you can refer to.


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    #162
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    AAAAAAAAA wrote: »
    Well you nailed that anyway, fair play

    ahh it was always going to be, any chance to appeal to the hearts and minds of school kids and college students who still believe money grows on trees and Paul will be there. Now he gets to harness the power of a 16 year old Swedish girl as his latest excuse to shout at buildings and trap women in cars.


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    #163
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    christy c wrote: »
    Absolutely no need to rely on me to provide information about his policies. Some of the recent comments referred to them and he has a shiny new website you can refer to.

    My bad. I read it like you wanted to discuss him and the policies. Go on, he's a bit baldy, say that ;)


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    #164
    Roger_007
    Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    The new party already has 59 Twitter followers. Power to the people!

    Ah!, so Paul has opened 58 new Twitter accounts?


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    #165
    nkl12xtw5goz70
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭nkl12xtw5goz70


    I don't see how this "new" party is all that different from what he was spouting previously?

    A bit more in-your-face "Bring on the revolution, comrades!" in terms of branding, perhaps, but there's nothing all that markedly different -- the usual rants against capitalism and the regular demands for free everything.


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    #166
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    I don't see how this "new" party is all that different from what he was spouting previously?

    A bit more in-your-face "Bring on the revolution, comrades!" in terms of branding, perhaps, but there's nothing all that markedly different -- the usual rants against capitalism and the regular demands for free everything.

    This is just a vanity project for Dole Pot. He gets to take the ball home with him, and can fall asleep imagining he’s Ireland’s answer to Lenin.


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    #167
    alias no.9
    Registered Users Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    I don't see how this "new" party is all that different from what he was spouting previously?

    A bit more in-your-face "Bring on the revolution, comrades!" in terms of branding, perhaps, but there's nothing all that markedly different -- the usual rants against capitalism and the regular demands for free everything.

    Paul believes everything should be decided by a democratic vote and when one such vote went against him, he could not act against the democratic will of the organisation so he quit the organisation to allow him maintain his personal position on the matter.


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    #168
    blanch152
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    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    My bad. I read it like you wanted to discuss him and the policies. Go on, he's a bit baldy, say that ;)

    Seeing as you are so hard on people who are questioning Murphy, why don't you set out for us how great his policies are, how they will work, where the finance will come from?

    If I thought that you could answer, I'd get out the popcorn.


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    #169
    NIMAN
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    The epitome of a populist politician.

    So he's gone all eco friendly now has he? Surprise surprise. The fact that it's the main topic of conversation in the world for the last few years didn't have an influence, did it?

    He just jumps on the bandwagons. He will just tie this now into poor people and he's set.


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    #170
    piplip87
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    Free public transport, a four day working week for the same wages as 5, free everything for those who cannot be arsed to get up out of bed and taxes to the hilt if your working..... Murphy is an absolute bellend.


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    #171
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,770 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    The new group is called RISE (Radical Internationalist Socialist Environmentalist).

    Website here: https://www.letusrise.ie/

    Twitter: @RISEsocialists

    Sounds familiar...

    Rural Ireland Says Enough.


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    #172
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    I don't see how this "new" party is all that different from what he was spouting previously?

    A bit more in-your-face "Bring on the revolution, comrades!" in terms of branding, perhaps, but there's nothing all that markedly different -- the usual rants against capitalism and the regular demands for free everything.

    The dolly mixture left are worse than Dungeons and Dragons RPG nerds when it comes to arguing over minutiae


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    #173
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    Kason Witty Beehive wrote: »
    Lettuce Rise... :pac:

    Read the list of demands here... https://www.letusrise.ie/what-we-stand-for

    I wonder if I should sign up just for ****s and gigs.

    Or would that be just mean.


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    #174
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    "socialists need to participate in these movements in an open, non-sectarian way"

    non-sectarian?


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    #175
    Portsalon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Portsalon


    If I was Herr Smirk, I'd have gone for calling it the RIDE Party. (Risibly Incoherent Demagogic Egotists.)


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    #176
    piplip87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,127 ✭✭✭piplip87


    Ruraldweller56 wrote: »
    I wonder if I should sign up just for ****s and gigs.

    Or would that be just mean.

    Yup as expected.

    How does recommend 15 quid an hour minium wage and expect prices to stay the same ?

    Double corporation tax potentially putting thousands out if work but it's ok it also says he will rise the dole and stop asking jobseekers to find work..... All while nationalising everything

    The party's tag line should be "Make Ireland starve again"


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    #177
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    This is my favourite comment ever

    Much obliged my good man.


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    #178
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    piplip87 wrote: »
    Yup as expected.

    How does recommend 15 quid an hour minium wage and expect prices to stay the same ?

    Double corporation tax potentially putting thousands out if work but it's ok it also says he will rise the dole and stop asking jobseekers to find work..... All while nationalising everything

    The party's tag line should be "Make Ireland starve again"

    Double corporation tax eh? Doesn't seem very fair on the small business owners and self employed contractors around the country. But I guess Paul knows best.

    He read the communist manifesto so.


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    #179
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Ruraldweller56 wrote: »
    I wonder if I should sign up just for ****s and gigs.

    Or would that be just mean.

    You’d be very well vetted first to see if you’ve impeccable socialist credentials. Outsiders are viewed with a suspicion that borders on hostility - the thing with the looney left is that they preach about a mass movement of the people, while really hating people.

    The non-sectarian thing is classic Trot - the Trots believe that Ireland should be part of an international confederation of socialist states - the headquarters in London are big into this point.


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    #180
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 29,567 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Tis kinna funny and sad to see the libertarians blow their load in here


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    #181
    lola85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lola85


    He was saying he actually has no interest in actually been in the dail and they are more interested in radicalizing the left.


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