European Parliament Elections 2024 - Friday, June 7th

Will any of our elected meps vote against an EU army? ming possibly. That’s hardly representative either.

I was afraid she'd still have a job as his tea lady.

They get 50k each but at least it's the last they'll get

Has Mick Wallace ever paid that VAT bill?

Pretty sure we all paid it.

I keep going back to the RTE website to see this.

She was a Trot socialist long before Wallace was ever introducing himself to her in the back benches of the Dáil.

Well, they embarresed me.

Daly has always been of the anti-American school really. Usually this involved protesting about neutrality, Israel or the Shannon stopover though. All views that are pretty easy to blend into the left wing Irish political scene with.

Then in recent years she planted her flag firmly in the camp of Russia, Syria, Iran, China etc. and really stood out from all but the most extreme of Irish politics.

So back in the Morning to find out the results of MNW!

List of members of the European Parliament for Ireland, 2024–2029 ~~ 4 more from MNW needed to fill it.

Breaks down which party there in and what current EU group, easy to work out party numbers.

I linked the substitutes list earlier in thread if anyone is wondering about them. Only 2 replacements last time.

It has been an Interesting week.

I respect the electorate. I would not claim they don’t know who or what they are voting for.

Tough if you or I don’t agree with them. They stood and got their FPs.

Thr issue with the greens is they’ll always be a smaller party, at least in the interim. When they do get into the mix with a bigger party they overcompensate and push to get as much of their agenda through as possible. It’s like everything, if you want to move forward you can sometkmes only move as fast as the slowest person as you have to at least try and bring most of the population with you. Green policies cost money which these days people don’t have in abundance. Their good run is over fir now. Like back around 2012, they’ll get their arses hsbddd to them now. They’ll be back again mind you. This time though it sounds like our fellow Europeans have also had enough of what they’re selling.

Kathleen and Lynn getting home is some much needed good news for SF, if both had failed then the heat would have been turned up on Mary Lou.

FF did better than polls suggested, Andrews was supposedly in bother while Cynthia wasn't given a prayer by anyone.

Mullins down South was a bust and I don't know if he has done himself any favors when it comes to a TD slot , bar him a pretty good week for FG.

Indy Ireland did ok, Boylan was close enough in Dublin, those who thought he was a cert for Dublin were paying to much attention to betting odds while Mulhooly edging out Peadar and both SF candidates is a good effort.

Eddie Punch? Yeah don't take betting odds and Ivan Yates seriously in the future.🤣

I do expect them to prop up FF/FG after the next election if the big two don't have the numbers themselves.

Independents, Daly and Wallace gone is not a bad thing, I had a lot of time for Daly before the last few years where she went off the rails, although not so much Wallace ever. Mc Namara was excellent on Covid so fair enough IMO.

Labour with AOR had a good week, a bit of a shame Hourigan never got going and while outside Europe they did well the SD'S had a nightmare in these particular elections.

Out of the new parties, mainly the far right loons, they need to start small rather than these silly attempts to get into Europe. Ideally their would be none of them, but for their own sake their is simply to many and they need to bin the oddballs.,,Philip O Dwyer ffs!

Although a decent showing by Blighe shows their is an audience for that sort of thing. I'd like him to go away but he has a future in politics unfortunately.

Aontu going nowhere really. Rabarhta Glas,,,early days but not impressed with their leader who seemed hellbent on denying O'Sullivan a seat unfortunately.

I'm sure Kelly, Kelleher, Mc Namara and Cynthia will be much more receptive to her brand of politics than O Sullivan. 🙃

so you hadn't heard of his massive VAT fraud, and the pension contributions he deducted from his employees and pocketed? or the bankruptcy thing when properties ended up owned by his brother?

all of this was well before 2019 - maybe too well before, but leopards don't change their spots.

sad state of affairs that mullooly got in. SF need to have a long look at themselves.