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Local/ EU elections who will you Vote for

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    What's up with Ming? 1/8 on to be elected , can anyone explain why he is so popular?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    It's almost like RTE/Others have decided that these are the main candidates to consider and nobody else is worth thinking about

    RTE are giving the impression that they've done the background work and have concluded that these are the main players - because RTE are totally impartial and the truth matters



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,738 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Well Peter Casey featured in the MNW debates and he has less chance of being elected than the above

    Here's the main selection criteria

    A) If the candidate is currently an elected MEP, TD, Senator or Councillor.

    (B) If the candidate didn’t get elected but achieved 5% or more of the vote in their constituency in the most recent European, Local, General or Seanad election.

    (C) If the party for which the candidate is standing won a least one seat in the last European election, at least two seats in the last General Election or at least five seats in the last local elections or achieved 5% of the national vote in any of these elections.

    You can see why Boylan has no standing by those measures



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,413 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    O Riordian has polled 4th in a number of polls. If he is ahead of Cuffe on the first count I'd say he has got the seat; if not if he pulls shead of Cuffe on Gibney's elimination, he's got the seat.

    Boylan failed to meet the published criteria. A complete crank right wing candidate was let on the MNW debates for meeting the published criteria there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭MFPM


    You're right it's not a coincidence, he didn't meet the criteria, Peter Casey who has similar views to Boylan did participate in a debate because he met the criteria, so you're 'right-leaning' candidate' theory doesn't stack up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    If memory serves, Gibney tanked in her last bid for a local seat in 2019



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,738 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    If the party for which the candidate is standing won a least one seat in the last European election, at least two seats in the last General Election or at least five seats in the last local elections or achieved 5% of the national vote in any of these elections.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,564 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Regina would sell her own kids for votes.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,738 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    We're all massive potheads out here in the Wild West…



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    Prime time tonight. The time was way off for the ending. It went on for a another 1/2 hour so if anyone recorded it they probably missed the last 1/2 hour.

    Also this advert on boards site. 😊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,928 ✭✭✭blackwhite




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,660 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Well the criteria is horse dung.

    Boylan should have been on it for balance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,705 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Is the Boylan fella the "inside the pale" version of the Healy Raes? No more mocking the Kerry voters if the dubs vote in this fella 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    People before profit is some name for a party when you think about it.

    This country would be fecked if not for people without documents coming here to save use in there opinion.

    First time I'v seen Biide Smith without glasses on her head was on Prime Time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,738 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Not really in truth, he's more sort of libertarian-right, believes in legalising prostitution and stuff like that…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Jeff2


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭wazzzledazzle


    Gladly i missed it but what i have read elsewhere it appears i didn't miss much. The usual nonsense. Checked odds again this morning and Boylan looks fairly certain to win a seat. Actually, unless the bookies have got this massively wrong, it seems that each of Andrews, Doherty, and the 2 Boylans will win the seats.

    Thankfully Gibney hasn't a hope and only depending on transfers the other three in the running will be Cuffe, Daly and Aodhan.

    Although i can't forsee Aodhan



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Choochtown


    Out of over 700 MEPs across the EU, only 1 has the role of co-ordinator on 2 different committees. Ming.

    There was a negotiation for a €10 BILLION package for rural communities in Europe. Only 1 of our MEPs bothered their arse to get involved in the lengthy process. Guess who? Ming.

    He secured €130 million for us and it's up for renegotiation next year. Who would you trust to put their time in to renegotiating a deal for us?

    Seems to me that Ming is working harder than any of our MEPs.

    He's also Co-chair of the EU Carers interest group and advocates for a universal payment for carers.

    Rather than throwing out soundbites guess which one of our MEPs brought the concrete blocks "mica scandal" to the EU Petitons committee? Yes once again the answer is Ming.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭zerosquared


    I posted earlier links to exact votes showing our independents and greens in EU voting repeatedly against any measure ever raised remotely related to resolving migration and critical of Putin’s regime who is busy creating/driving migrants into Europe



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭zerosquared


    These people he is popular with want more migration. Ming repeatedly voted against any motion to resolve the crisis at eu levels and supporting of Putin who created millions of refugees and whose regime deliberately drives migrants into eu while profiting from this human trafficking

    Yet most of time he doesn’t even bother show up for votes in Brussels with one of the lowest attendance percentages



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭zerosquared


    how many billions did he cost the farmers of Ireland and Europe by repeatedly supporting Putin’s war?

    How many millions of refugees ended up in Europe because of same unwavering support from him and his independence/green buddies



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Choochtown


    Now you're just making stuff up.

    Where on earth do you get the idea that Ming supports war?

    And what is wrong with supporting refugees? I'd much rather a representative who stood up for the underdog.

    Ming is nobody's puppet. Whilst other MEPs are blindly voting on vague resolutions that do nothing only pay lip-service to fluffy ideals, Ming is pushing on real issues.

    Why would a Putin supporter be the 1 MEP to raise concerns over the delay of humanitarian aid to Ukraine getting over the Romanian border? (Other MEPs too afraid to rattle cages)

    https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124985/LUKE%2BMING_FLANAGAN/cv#detailedcardmep



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭zerosquared


    Take a look at his voting record with regards to Putin and Ukraine, he repeatedly supported the regime that caused so much misery for farmers across Europe and driven millions of refugees into Europe

    Repeatedly

    He also repeatedly voted against any measure to help resolve the refugee crisis such as being able to send back those who falsely claim asylum

    He also voted against putting tarrifs on Russian agricultural imports into EU, how that help farmers here and across Europe?

    And not just him, his block of Clare and Mick and Greens all vote along same lines, the problem for them is that there are now elections coming up and it’s not hard to look up their voting records



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,629 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    The Dublin 23 are a sorry bunch. There had been no standout candidate but I watched the debate last night and haven't been convinced any further. I went online to get the full list and of the 23, I came up with 20 definitely nots and 3 maybes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    I'm no fan of Ming but he's not in the same camp as Wallace & Daly when it comes to implicit and explicit support of authoritarian regimes (Putin, Assad, the Iran regime, the Chinese CP).



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭zerosquared


    he sure as hell votes along the same lines majority of the time tho with these clowns



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,007 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Is Ming perfect, no. He does a lot of work and is always in touch with home area.

    Kelly and Kelleher, likewise.

    Most of the others are harmless and enjoy the lifestyle of an MEP.

    It's worse in much of Europe where lists are used, Meps are picked on favourites or dumping ground of opponents in the party, for donors and backing leaders.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭MFPM


    Parking your usual jibes, you're actually wrong about Flanagan. He like SF watched the media go for Daly and Wallace and he changed tack on some votes based on pure opportunism. If you speak to him privately he'd readily admit it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    So Brid Smith was on Prime Time last night and said that people in foreign lands who live in poverty in her book come under the classification of 'the persecuted' so can claim international protection on that basis. We should welcome them to the county and give them 'jobs', in her opinion.



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