Look like it's got to be Boyd Barrett in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown...
With polling day approaching it's time to work out which of the crooks is going to get my vote and how I can manage to make my vote travel down the list most effectively.
To start with we can remove Fine Gael from the list. Three grey men running. Barrett (past his sell by date), Bailey (hardest working - but only for himself) and Regan (rich man's candidate and friend of super capitalist Peter Sutherland). In any case my poor dead grandmother would turn in her grave if I went with that lot - and her having been jailed in Kilmainham by them during the Civil War.
Then there's the Progressive Democrats' candidate Fiona O'Malley. Sorry, no way.
Fianna Fáil have incumbents - Minister of Education, Mary Hanafin and Barry Andrews. Mary is intelligent and honest but I simply don't agree with her views on the running of the education system - I want to see the churches removed from the system , she (and she is a social conservative) wants them to stay. The best part of Barry Andrews is that he is the brother of comedian Dave McSavage but that's not really enough.....
Labour are running two candidates - Eamonn Gilmore a sitting TD for the last 75 years and a neighbour of mine. Almost certain to be reelected and not a bad fellow...... except that about 15 years ago he called for the resignation of my father from the chairmanship of Bord na Gaeilge. And I have a long memory..... Their other candidate is Oisin Quinn, nephew of former Labour leader Ruairi and son of zillionaire Lochlann. Seems like a decent guy and will be getting a preference.
The Greens have Ciaran "Chemical" Cuffe. Apart from his little issue of being found to have a boat load of shares in evil American corporations that he had inherited from his mother, who was a sister of Bobby Kennedy's wife, he is a good guy and will probably get the number two. He is hotly tipped to keep his seat.
The Shinners candidate is Eoin O'Broin and to be honest I know nothing about him. He hasn't got a hope in this constituency.
And finally we have Richard Boyd Barrett. Anti War, Save our seafront, People before Profit party. With a slogan like that how could you avoid voting for him? He managed to organise the biggest march in Dublin for decades in 2003 just before the fantastically successful, er, liberation of Iraq and on a more local level he prevented a massive private development of apartments on Dún Laoghaire seafront. It's interesting to note that a lot of the other candidates are claiming that they are responsible for saving the seafront but it is not true.
Anyway he's getting my number one and I've managed to convince a few others to do the same. Paddy Power are offering 11 to 1 against on his chances - maybe worth a punt?
To start with we can remove Fine Gael from the list. Three grey men running. Barrett (past his sell by date), Bailey (hardest working - but only for himself) and Regan (rich man's candidate and friend of super capitalist Peter Sutherland). In any case my poor dead grandmother would turn in her grave if I went with that lot - and her having been jailed in Kilmainham by them during the Civil War.
Then there's the Progressive Democrats' candidate Fiona O'Malley. Sorry, no way.
Fianna Fáil have incumbents - Minister of Education, Mary Hanafin and Barry Andrews. Mary is intelligent and honest but I simply don't agree with her views on the running of the education system - I want to see the churches removed from the system , she (and she is a social conservative) wants them to stay. The best part of Barry Andrews is that he is the brother of comedian Dave McSavage but that's not really enough.....
Labour are running two candidates - Eamonn Gilmore a sitting TD for the last 75 years and a neighbour of mine. Almost certain to be reelected and not a bad fellow...... except that about 15 years ago he called for the resignation of my father from the chairmanship of Bord na Gaeilge. And I have a long memory..... Their other candidate is Oisin Quinn, nephew of former Labour leader Ruairi and son of zillionaire Lochlann. Seems like a decent guy and will be getting a preference.
The Greens have Ciaran "Chemical" Cuffe. Apart from his little issue of being found to have a boat load of shares in evil American corporations that he had inherited from his mother, who was a sister of Bobby Kennedy's wife, he is a good guy and will probably get the number two. He is hotly tipped to keep his seat.
The Shinners candidate is Eoin O'Broin and to be honest I know nothing about him. He hasn't got a hope in this constituency.
And finally we have Richard Boyd Barrett. Anti War, Save our seafront, People before Profit party. With a slogan like that how could you avoid voting for him? He managed to organise the biggest march in Dublin for decades in 2003 just before the fantastically successful, er, liberation of Iraq and on a more local level he prevented a massive private development of apartments on Dún Laoghaire seafront. It's interesting to note that a lot of the other candidates are claiming that they are responsible for saving the seafront but it is not true.
Anyway he's getting my number one and I've managed to convince a few others to do the same. Paddy Power are offering 11 to 1 against on his chances - maybe worth a punt?
posted by Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa at 21:31
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Celtic Bookmakers has the Boy Barrett down at 40-1 even yesterday. Get your bets in :)
These are the leaflets of a mob orator, a class warrior. a demagogue like Hitler or Stalin.
To vote for the likes of Boyd Barrett would be jumping from the frying pan into the fire, he is a poison in Irish politics, a canker to be cut out.
His Socialist Workers Party are the real Nazis of our age: The Nazis has the same Party title, the National Socialist Workers Party!!!
Boyd Barrett takes over where they left off , there is no overt racism but all the rest of the nihilistic destructive policies are there. They have the most negative economic and financial policies in the Western hemisphere , they stand against everyting and for nothing as they now attempt to use the crisis to get themselves elected and carve a Soviet State out of Ireland.
Avoid Boyd Barrett and his Partei Apparatus like the plague!
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