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I was talking with the guy who owns the local corner shop the other night. He was banging on about all these foriegners coming over here etc, etc. I had to smile. He's a second generation Indian/British Sikh.
Just goes to show you can't be too careful. :)
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
Not really . If Labours votes had gone to the Neo-Nazis then the BNP would have got a landslide , after all Labours vote has absolutely crashed since the last election.Harsh but true. It's particually disturbing that while Conservative voters go to the (somewhat) lunatic fringe of the anti-EU, Labour voters go to the Neo-Nazis.
Strange then that the BNPs votes were also down on the last election if they were getting labours votes.
Libertas is the party of Irish business man Ganley. He is credited with being instrumental in the Irish no vote over the Lisbon Treaty.
It would now appear that not everything is what it seems about Ganley:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...248537825.htmlTHE TREATMENT of Libertas founder Declan Ganley by the media raises “very fundamental questions” about Irish journalism, Minister for European Affairs Dick Roche has said.
Mr Roche said that, notwithstanding the work of two journalists – Colm Keena of The Irish Times and RTÉ’s Katie Hannon – Mr Ganley’s background in business was not “properly probed”.
The Libertas leader has said that he will not be involved in a second campaign against the Lisbon Treaty.
“He suckered a lot of senior journalists all over this country,” Mr Roche said. “All you have to do is look at the simple improbability of his biography and at the suggestions that he was, at 20, 22 years of age, running the largest forestry operation in the former Soviet Union. You just have to look at any of these so-called facts and you could begin to ask serious questions.”
Mr Roche also asked what had happened to the funds Libertas had collected over the past year.
Ganley organised a pan-European party for this month's EU election. This party / movement, it appeared, was, oh let's say, a peculiar mixture of opportunists from the political fringes
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...248899908.htmlUNSUCCESSFUL LIBERTAS candidate for Dublin Caroline Simons sent a legal letter to Declan Ganley’s spokesman the day after the European elections accusing the spokesman of defaming her.
Ms Simons’s complaint related to a press release issued to the media in her name describing an international Jewish organisation, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, as “beneath contempt”.
The release was prompted by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s claim that some Libertas candidates around Europe were “known anti-Semites, homophobes and anti-migrant racists”.
Did someone mention 'fraud in the EU'? Do I hear somebody mention 'foreign interference in Ireland'? That's right. Our dear Ganley used both themes in his Irish 'No' campaign. However, it appears one need not look further than Ganley himself:
Anti-Lisbon organisation Libertas failed to provide adequate information to the Standards in Public Office commission on its activities during last year’s referendum, a report found today.
[the report] demonstrated that Libertas was not willing to operate under the Law, according to Minister for Europe, Dick Roche.
"It raises real issues regarding the extent of foreign interference channelled via Libertas into the referendum campaign. The report demonstrates the need for an immediate strengthening of the law."
“It confirms questions raised by me and others about the role of US defence contractor Rivada Networks Ltd and its Irish office. It contains and confirms that there was serious external interference in Ireland's referendum campaign from Mr Ganley's euro sceptic contacts via the Libertas campaign.”
Currently, Ganley has fled from politics. With his tail between his legs, amongst lawsuits, allegations of fraud, and millions worth of unpaid bills.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...248690587.html
Thank you very much, you lying, fraudulent, for giving Ireland and the EU years worth of trouble.
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Last edited by Louis VI the Fat; 06-17-2009 at 13:48.
This would be the same Irish Gov't that has pushed its pro-europe agenda into the teeth of an unwilling Irish electorate, and they're annoyed with Declan Ganley's anti-Lisbon campaign.......... oh really!
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Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
Yes, I am aware that Euro-scepticism is an overriding sentiment.
No matter how many lawsuits, no matter how many Bulgarians, Fins, Italians, Greeks, French point out that Ganley's European party in their country is made up of mobsters, no matter how much fraud and corruption Irish journalism manages to dig up, no matter how much even Ganley himself has stopped even the mere pretense, Eurosceptics will believe it is all an EU Superstatist lie.
Irish politics forum. They are not kind to Ganley.
http://www.politics.ie/elections/767...paid-over.html
Ganley is a fraudulent businessman. The leader of a far right pan-European party. The Irish 'no' campaign was illegally funded from abroad.
Once again, the Irish people did not vote against Lisbon merely on the say-so of this crook (who, I recall, was rightly held up as such by Tribesman on this very forum) but because of a range of deep concerns that Libertas happened to strike a chord upon. The question posed to the people was a Yes or No referendum, not a party vote.
I know it's hard to believe Louis, but our people actually voted against the Lisbon Treaty of their own volition. As did the French against the original constitution. Note that Ganley was not active when your citizens gave the EU months of trouble (ie until they were ignored and removed from the process).
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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Last edited by Beskar; 06-08-2009 at 11:47.
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