One candidate had a great night. Some others did not.
But not one he is accepting with perfect grace.
The shame here is not theirs. The shame is on the rest of us, who shut up for fear of being called a racist by a vapid clown dressed as a woman.
Highly amusing. This all began at 2.50AM, when somebody noticed an…. unusual tweet from the MEP’s account concerning his constituency colleague, ex-Green candidate Saoirse McHugh: The apparent tweet, slash google search gone terribly wrong, was swiftly deleted, and that would seem to have been the end of that. An embarrassing middle-of-the-night blunder, worthy of a […]
You might recall that she actually promised to do this during the long and often torturous debate about whether the Green Party would enter Government, if her side did not prevail. Well, her side lost. The Greens entered Government, and today, at least one Green is keeping their promises: Thread on leaving the greens:I have […]
Two ways of looking at this: On the one hand, it’s the personification of the electoral price the Greens will pay for entering coalition. If Saoirse McHugh, of all people, can’t support them, then how likely is your average suburban dripster to do so? On the other hand, given her record of contradicting the party […]
A very good question by the interviewer here, and a very bad answer from the putative politician. Have a listen to it yourself. She basically says “I denied that I believe in a world with no borders even though I absolutely believe that the world should have no borders”: https://twitter.com/gearoidmurphy_/status/1262753866686193665 The problem with this sort […]
It’s an interesting little footnote to history that while the phrase “never let a good crisis go to waste” is nearly always attributed to Winston Churchill, there’s no actual evidence that he ever said it. He may well have said it, but nobody can ever seem to record when, or where, or to whom. In […]
Because of our proportional election system, Ireland is nearly always governed by a coalition between at least two political parties. The last majority, one party Government was elected in 1977, when Jack Lynch promised everything short of Nirvana to win the election, and then fell from power shortly thereafter when it became apparent that he […]