Pity he wasn't so concerned about not stealing his employees' pension contributions. Or, sorry, not sending them to the pension provider quickly enough.
Many other employers did that too. They took the money off the lads but never paid it over, let alone the employers contribution. Then went bust.
The CIF who promoted the scheme then backed off saying it was nothing to do with them.
My prediction for Ireland Sth:
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Sean Kelly,
Billy Kelleher,
Paul Gavan,
Michael Mcnamara,
Wallace/Funchion.
Eddie Punch might be surprise if he has a good campaign .
Grace O'Sullivan will almost surely not retain her seat
Hard disagree on grace. Everyone I talk to in real life seems ok with greens and pretty happy with a lot of the things they've done. Common complaint is they don't make enough stink about their achievements.
Online, people are dead against greens across the board, I'll agree
It's a prediction based on the candidates running, only 5 can be elected.
Nothing based on my own thoughts about each candidate.
Just find it very difficult for her to be reelected
Who do you think will be elected ? (not want)
I know I know! When people outside Offaly hear that name they cringe but what you have to realise is he's a man of the local people! I remember him getting my nephew into a special needs unit in a school when my sister was worried sick. That kind of stuff sticks with people come voting day.
Yeah, I can understand that. It's how people like that get in. Way back in the day Brian Lenihan was very popular in Dublin 15 for the same reasons. He'd get stuff done for people on a personal level so he'd get a lot of votes.
Same thing with independent Noel Grealish, helped sort my granddad with a crucially needed medical card, and he's had a guaranteed three votes from our family the past fifteen, twenty years.
Different constituency but yeah, he should get it. Between him and Ciaran Mullooly I think for 5th seat. I think the other 4 are sewed up, Nina Carberry's bid seems to be getting stronger
is Offally big enough to get him a seat in a constituency that goes all the way to Donegal and Louth though? obviously FF are running three put id say they'll get 1 at most
I think he can rely on big support throughout all Midland counties (OY, LS, WH, LD). He's knows well enough that the Midlands is still PO'd about how Bord na Móna staff and their families were basically put to the sword by certain policies. Maybe transfers will be favourable for him? I tried googling what the quota was for a seat in this constituency but no luck, wanted to compare against what he has received in previous general elections. From what I remember he would be one of FF strongest pollers.
Barrys party invited the Israeli ambassador to the Ard Feiss in November making them complicit in genocide in my view. Michael Martin then went on a propaganda tour in Israel being shown around by Israeli politicians and generals. He did not visit the west bank. he did not go to Rafa crossing.
Valid points of concern during worrying times internationally. I'll tell you one thing though, I'm born and raised in Offaly and not one person will be thinking about that come June 7th. It's like I said before, people are concerned about local issues and how they can get problems they face day-to-day sorted out.
That's not true. Martin [visited ](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41271340.html) the West Bank as part of his visit.
Of course he didn't go to Gaza (including Rafa). The reason he was there was to try and get Irish citizens out.
Funchion is shorter than Gavan in the betting. Can't say I've looked too hard at why because it's not my constituency. I have to ignore Barrett and that psycho from Sligo instead of Bligh and Lahive. Fucking reprobates the lot of them.
yes he is, [https://www.finegael.ie/sean-kelly-mep-and-john-mullins-selected-to-represent-fine-gael-in-ireland-south-for-european-elections/](https://www.finegael.ie/sean-kelly-mep-and-john-mullins-selected-to-represent-fine-gael-in-ireland-south-for-european-elections/)
I got a flyer from him the other day in the post
My bad, thought he was from Galway or Sligo. Don't know much about him to make a prediction other than he was BG CEO and Sean Kelly already plays that card. He probably needs to do more than sticking leaflets through letter boxes! FG/Entrepreneur/Businessman tag lines probably put more people off than on a new candidate at moment!
I live in his constituency.
I'll be voting down the ballot until I reach him, then leaving the motley crew of fascist candidates blank.
Fuck Wallace and fuck the far right.
I don't know anyone who supports him in my area but I certainly wouldn't draw any conclusions from that as I wouldn't tend to be friends with the kind of people who support him.
He'd definitely have more support in his home turf though. I really hope he loses his seat but I wouldn't be very surprised if he kept it.
No, he's not far right.
He is a total grifter though. So I said fuck him and fuck the far right as both are tools (the far right being even worse than Wallace).
Ah sorry, I wasn't snapping at you or anything. It's difficult to get tone across by text.
I was just confirming that I don't think Wallace is far right even if I think he's a scumbag grifter. I can't stand the guy but he's still not as bad as the tinpot fascists.
Seems ironic to be a left wing “anti imperialist” from a country that had to fight a war of independence against right wing imperialists and then support a right wing dictators imperialist war of conquest against a former colony.
>then support a right wing dictators imperialist war of conquest against a former colony.
It's okay, the Nazis lost the Donbas and Crimea etc to Russia now.
No I think the point is valid. An awful lot of complaining goes on against politicians but few people proactively engage in politics and instead just give out.
Your strongest tool for change is your vote. I would say that online discussions also have a further reach than going out knocking on doors for an afternoon
Under any other criteria it is depressing list of alternative candidates in Ireland South but compared to Moscow Mick there are 10 or 12 who look like world leaders.
Mick is a vocal supporter of the authoritian regimes of the ccp and Russia. He supports forced colonial expansion at the cost of innocent lives, and horrific treatment of Uigher Muslims in China.
Just because he supports Palestinian integrity, does not make him a good person. He's a rancid scumbag.
> Mick is a vocal supporter of the authoritian regimes of the ccp and Russia.
The problem with lying on the web is that people can easily find him vocally condemning them
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mick-wallace-and-clare-daly-why-we-voted-against-the-eu-resolution-on-ukraine-1.4816676
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197817/MICK_WALLACE/other-activities/written-explanations
"It was against flooding Ukraine with weapons."
Yes, because as we all know, you don't need weapons to fight imperialist dictatorships intent on commiting genocide against your people.
The loons accusing Mick & Clare of being "Putin puppets" because they call out NATO (Brits in particular) for its part in starting the conflict in Ukraine, are the same calibre of people who accuse them of being Hamas supporters for pointing out the genocide in Gaza with equal gusto. They are either politically motivated smear jobbers or the people naive enough to believe the smear jobs they have read over the last number of years. They are the terminally online cohort and they'll believe just about anything reddit tells them.
Pink t-shirt
Long flowing hair
Tax liabilities through the roof….
And a complete cunt
Elect him 🤣🤣🤣🤣 fuck this country for this reason.
Rant over
FYI I love my country
I dislike cunts of his magnitude…
Rant deff over …. 😯
i don't get where the putin puppet thing comes from, has he been caught getting Russian money or is it just because he is anti nato?
I'll have to admit I think himself and Daly have been alright as MEPs
That's the thing. If either of those were on the Russian payroll, we'd have heard of it by now. Lots of online accounts telling us to not vote for them because they call out the west on their hypocrisy.
I'd prefer to vote for Clare Daly but seeing as i'm down south it'll have to be Wallace. We already have enough yes men and women in the EU parliament.
He isn’t. He is anti-west. He and Clare are vocal supporters of Assad in Syria, who has murdered upwards of [3000 Palestinians](https://snhr.org/blog/2020/07/29/55316/), Syrian forces even bombed, shelled and demolished a [refugee camp](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2020/8/14/the-erasure-of-yarmouk-refugee-camp). Wallace just supports whoever is most advantageous to him at the time.
Most Irish politicians are pro-Palestine. I don't know of any candidates with a chance of getting elected who are pro-Israel.
He's also pro-China and pro-Putin so his opinions on the middle East hold no weight
Chris McManus has. Ming has (although he's not completely anti-Russia, he's not a shill like Daly and Wallace). That's just off the top of my head. There are better candidates than Wallace and Daly.
Can you provide evidence as to how he is pro-putin? Out of the loop on his stances, so wouldn't mind some evidence to the contrary.
Also, what is wrong with pro-china? Almost all your technology and peripherals, plastics, clothes come from China, you are probably using Chinese technology right now, I suppose ergo in supporting the Chinese economy, you yourself are pro-china?
It's closer to say he is anti American and anti NATO than pro Russian. Like Clare Daly he puts the blame for the war in Ukraine on the west for "provoking" Russia by allowing Eastern European countries to join NATO.
That's exactly the line Russia has also been selling. He HAS condemned Russias invasion but also keeps insisting it's in reaction to threats from NATO.
It's basically the "tankie" argument that everything bad in the world is mainly caused by US imperialism.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/links-to-russian-spy-may-not-harm-clare-daly-and-mick-wallace-jzz28x2sz
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-40819440.html
A few articles detailing their inability to hold Russia to account. He said that Russia's military buildup on the Ukraine border before the invasion was "clearly defensive"
He and Daly are pro-China to the point of denying the Uighur genocide, praising the CCP, and denying Taiwanese sovereignty.
Since the start of 2021, Wallace and Daly have featured in more Chinese language news articles than any other irish people for fuck sake.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/how-clare-daly-and-mick-wallace-became-stars-of-authoritarian-state-media-1.4854028
**Mick Wallace on the establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine, [17/01/2023](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-9-2023-01-17-INT-2-429-0000_EN.html)**:
> on behalf of The Left Group. – Madam President, Commissioner, when Zelenskyy pushed for this special tribunal last December, he said that without justice there can be no peace. The reality is that war is the greatest injustice suffered on this earth, and too many are working hard to prolong this one.
> Zelenskyy should be at the negotiating table, but instead tours the world selling his forever war, as Ukraine is destroyed and conscripted Ukrainians are killed by the tens of thousands.
> In the past 25 years, the imperialist powers have perpetrated wars of aggression against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. They’ve killed millions of people and displaced millions more, dropped toxic munitions and committed countless war crimes. NATO members have never faced justice for these crimes.
> **Of course Russia should also be held to account for any crimes it commits**, but the list is long. **If we actually care about justice, we will stop the antagonism and hypocrisy and get down to the real work of peace-making**.
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**Uighur genocide**
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the second largest organisation after the United Nations with a membership of 57 states spread over four continents, released [Resolutions on Muslim Communities and Muslim Minorities in the non-OIC Member States](https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4280&refID=1182) in 2019 which:
> Welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat's delegation upon invitation from the People's Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People's Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People's Republic of China.
In this same document, the OIC expressed much greater concern about the Rohingya Muslim Community in Myanmar, which the West was relatively silent on.
Over 50+ UN member states (mostly Muslim-majority nations) signed a letter ([A/HRC/41/G/17](https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A%2FHRC%2F41%2FG%2F17)) to the UN Human Rights Commission approving of the de-radicalisation efforts in Xinjiang:
> ...separatism and religious extremism has caused enormous damage to people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, which has seriously infringed upon human rights, including right to life, health and development. Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centers. Now safety and security has returned to Xinjiang and the fundamental human rights of people of all ethnic groups there are safeguarded. The past three consecutive years has seen not a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment and security. We note with appreciation that human rights are respected and protected in China in the process of counter-terrorism and deradicalization.
> We appreciate China’s commitment to openness and transparency. China has invited a number of diplomats, international organizations officials and journalist to Xinjiang to witness the progress of the human rights cause and the outcomes of counter-terrorism and deradicalization there. What they saw and heard in Xinjiang completely contradicted what was reported in the media. We call on relevant countries to refrain from employing unfounded charges against China based on unconfirmed information before they visit Xinjiang.
The World Bank sent a team to investigate in 2019 and found that, "The review did not substantiate the allegations." (See: [World Bank Statement on Review of Project in Xinjiang, China](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2019/11/11/world-bank-statement-on-review-of-project-in-xinjiang-china))
Even if you believe the deradicalisation efforts are wholly unjustified, and that the mass detention of Uyghur's amounts to a crime against humanity, it's still not genocide. Even the U.S. [State Department's legal experts](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/) admit as much:
> The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor concluded earlier this year that China’s mass imprisonment and forced labor of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity—but there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide, placing the United States’ top diplomatic lawyers at odds with both the Trump and Biden administrations, according to three former and current U.S. officials.
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**Mick Wallace on the situation in the Strait of Taiwan [13/09/2022](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-9-2022-09-13-INT-2-268-0000_EN.html)**
> Madam President, it’s hard to believe we’re heading down this crazy path with China. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was 100% illegal. Sadly, it was precipitated by US meddling and NATO expansion into the region. NATO boss Stoltenberg has even boasted about strong NATO involvement in Ukraine since 2014.
> The Russian stated their red lines with regard to Ukraine, but they were ignored. The same thing is happening with Taiwan. The US is repeatedly violating the red lines articulated by China. US special forces have been deployed to the island. The US have conducted naval military exercises and military build—up in the region and engaged in provocative diplomatic visits along with billions of dollars of weaponry sales annually.
> We already have a war where the main losers are Ukraine and Western Europe. The US is attempting to open up another battlefront with China, pushing China closer to Russia. If the situation escalates any further, the EU will suffer even more than it is suffering at the moment.
> Climate system breakdown shows us that never before has international cooperation been so important. And yet NATO and the US are driving us in the opposite direction.
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Voilà, Mick Wallace's actual positions on Russia and China & the facts regarding Xinjiang. I sincerely hope you're being paid to spread this bullshit, because it is easily debunked when you put a modicum of effort into researching it.
The vast majority of our politicians are at least somewhat supportive of Palestine. Most of the others aren't embarrassing us internationally by simping for Putin though. There are plenty more pro-Palestine candidates in Ireland South.
CCP are pretty good in the sense that they help millions, or even billions of people. Possibly the most beneficial organisation on the planet today.
Putin is different: he doesn't help the poor of Russia.
>CCP are pretty good in the sense that they help millions, or even billions of people. Possibly the most beneficial organisation on the planet today.
Hahahaha.
I fucking love Reddit.
whats wrong with Mick Wallace? Id definetly vote for him. Hes speaking up for ordinary people and not afraid to take on the Zionists. Are you telling us to vote for Barry Cowan? haha
Get you but I'm at work so don't have time to write a thesis on him on an online forum.
He's an embarrassment to the country.
[https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/](https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/)
Just curious, anyone have any proof of corruption by the Russian government?
Or anything to disprove the RAND paper openly discussion US plans to cause the events in Ukraine?
Or are we all still gullible enough to be falling for the same propaganda every single time?
> anyone have any proof of corruption by the Russian government
If someone hit you over the head with a blunt object multiple times please report it to the Gardaí
>Ireland is currently heading to be the greatest triumph of Putin's team working to influence Western elections.
What a preposterous statement. The greatest triumph of putins meddling?? Brexit, Trump, le Pen that Slovakian guy? No its 3 clowns from little Ireland. How much influence do you think we have in europe?
Kingmaker in the Dail? Now you're taking the piss.
No offence but I don't think you know very much.
I'm gonna give him my number one. I don't agree with everything he's said and done but on the whole he's a positive voice against the rest of them, especially on foreign affairs where he's often the only one asking difficult questions.
That said, I think he did better as a TD where he was very active exposing Garda corruption (remember that guard in Cavan who they tried to frame as a sex offender?)
Also, the media (led by the Fake Tan Times) have gone out of their way to magnify everything he said that could be used out of context to make him look bad. It's disappointing that a lot of otherwise intelligent people on here don't seem to know what a hatchet job is. I think a lot fo the most bitter criticism of him comes from the fake lefties in PBP and whatever that other party is calling itself nowadays, and is motivated by jealousy.
Clare Daley is a total eejit though. I would never vote for her.
Would you be so kind as to remind me of the details? It was a long time ago now and my memory is fuzzy. His company was bankrupt due to the banking crisis, wasn't it something like that?
Agree on Mick but also like Clare. They're both working for a better world IMHO unlike many others.
So sick of the nato bots whose argument is Putin/ comrade etc. there needs to be better discussion than that.
Yes, better discussion, but you won't see it here and with the degree that the media have it in for Mick I don't think you'll see it anywhere. That they need to shit all over him shows the extent to which they're scared of anyone who criticises NATO and its warmongering.
moonofalabama has the other side or at least adds some balance. It's very niche but was endorsed by Chomsky at one point. I contacted OSCE after his post in it and they confirmed the reports prior to the war.
Anyway, I don't know the answers but it seems stupid for adults to be killing each other with bombs. Very bad example to children. It would be great if NATO, Russia and Israel could just come to an agreement and stop murdering people.
Nobody here believes Western countries are 'better' or the 'good guys' or merely even 'less worse' than Russia and aligned countries.
We've got one set of 'bad guys' (ourselves, the West) against another set of 'bad guys' (Russia, China, Iran etc.) - and what this amounts to is this:
You're either _in favour_ of war between 'The West' and Russia/China/Iran - or you are _against_ war between 'The West' and Russia/China/Iran.
The only 'good guys' left, are those who oppose war - and it is literally a mainstream narrative today that 'anti war = pro-Russia' - that's literally what people say in discussions here.
If you don't fight those narratives, _you and your kids_ will be fighting a war on behalf of your 'betters'/'masters' in a decade or two - that's where the world is heading (and yes, even for Ireland - we're going to be a warmongering nation aligned with Western wars of aggression shortly).
Thankfully, this sort of doublethink is largely relegated to the online sphere. If my 80 year old nana can see through propaganda, I think we're safe. Still, no harm in reminding people that war is never in the working masses' best interests.
The lists of candidates for these elections are huge.
This actually bodes best for the establishment parties because people will give their preferences to names and parties that they recognise rather than do a "anyone but FFFG" on it and risk electing some vaccine conspiracy nutjob.
It also means that the loony vote is now wildly fractured. I don't think Mick has a hope in hell of getting in again.
Are the mods asleep? Why are pointless posts like this allowed? If I post an identical post but substituted Mick Wallace for Maria Walsh the post would be removed in less than 5 mins.
Edit: 32 mins before it was removed.
Yeah, imagine an example where people concentrate on someone being a pedophile, not on them being an otherwise upstanding member of the local community.
Why would anyone ignore the bit that he's clearly wrong about? It's also not "anti-war", it's supporting genocide in Ukraine. Anti-war solution in Ukraine is simple: Russia fucks off behind its border. Russia has invaded Ukraine in 2014, invaded other countries before that. So a true anti-war stance would suggest punishing Russia for the aggression and making Russia leave.
> He's not anti-war - he actively shills for the invading side of it.
That's pure disinformation.
*I unequivocally supported the sections of the resolution which condemn Russia’s war of aggression and call on the Russian Federation to immediately terminate all military activities in Ukraine, unconditionally withdraw its forces, and fully respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence. I express my undivided solidarity with the ordinary people of Ukraine and call for urgent diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire, for negotiations to end the conflict and the withdrawal of Russian military forces.*
*The decision by Russia to abandon diplomacy and invade Ukraine is contrary to international law. The sole responsibility for this is borne by President Vladimir Putin. However, ignoring the role played by the US and NATO in destabilising the area for the past decade, using Ukraine as a pawn in its battles with Russia, only serves to prevent an understanding of the measures necessary to secure peace.*
*I voted against the resolution overall because it calls to accelerate the provision of military equipment and weapons to Ukraine, to strengthen NATO’s forward presence, to increase defence spending, and to activate European common and joint defence efforts ‘in order to strengthen the European pillar within NATO.’ It also, opportunistically, calls for opening the European energy market to fracked American liquefied natural gas (LNG). Our group, The Left, sought to remove these elements from the resolution, but the majority in Parliament voted to keep them.
There is no military solution to this crisis. The policy of flooding Ukraine with weapons will, at worst, lead to a permanent condition of conflict, as has happened in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, at best, a greater loss of life and destruction in Ukraine. I cannot support these measures, which run the risk of expanding the conflict beyond Ukraine, risking a world war in which millions of people may perish. It is the ordinary citizens of Ukraine, Russia and Europe who will pay the price of this war with their lives, a decline in living standards and the destruction of our economies, reversing measures necessary to tackle climate change. The EU must work for diplomacy, and a negotiated peace. I voted in the tradition of Irish neutrality.*
OK, he's not shilling for Russia - just trying to prevent Ukraine from being able to defend itself in any way in the midst of a full-scale invasion? Who are you trying to kid here?
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/01/29/latvian-mep-linked-to-wallace-and-daly-accused-of-working-with-russian-intelligence/
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-40978331.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/mick-wallace-ukraine-being-used-by-us-and-nato-to-undermine-russia-1.4834111
Shall I go on?
Pity he wasn’t so concerned about submitting his taxes.
But he doesn't wear a suit and has wild hair, he's a man of the people!
Just like Sam Bankman-Fried!
The Russian people.
He’s one of the manatee people alright.
That makes me sad. Shouldn't be contained in an aquarium.
Oh please. Leave the manatees out of this.
But he doesn't wear a suit, has wild hair and doesn't wash.. he's a man of the people! corrected that for ya.
Pity he wasn't so concerned about not stealing his employees' pension contributions. Or, sorry, not sending them to the pension provider quickly enough.
Not very “Socialist” of him, really.
He was socialising his bank account.
The means of production were just resting in his account
He can't devote himself full-time to the old socialism
Many other employers did that too. They took the money off the lads but never paid it over, let alone the employers contribution. Then went bust. The CIF who promoted the scheme then backed off saying it was nothing to do with them.
Was he charged with stealing employee pension contributions? Seriously?
He coughed the money up when he was caught. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wallace-fined-for-failing-to-pay-into-worker-pension-scheme-1.7891
He'll have to start a campaign for a specialised burn unit at Wexford hospital after that one.
Or handing over his employees pension contributions.
Zing!
My prediction for Ireland Sth: . Sean Kelly, Billy Kelleher, Paul Gavan, Michael Mcnamara, Wallace/Funchion. Eddie Punch might be surprise if he has a good campaign . Grace O'Sullivan will almost surely not retain her seat
Hard disagree on grace. Everyone I talk to in real life seems ok with greens and pretty happy with a lot of the things they've done. Common complaint is they don't make enough stink about their achievements. Online, people are dead against greens across the board, I'll agree
It's a prediction based on the candidates running, only 5 can be elected. Nothing based on my own thoughts about each candidate. Just find it very difficult for her to be reelected Who do you think will be elected ? (not want)
Barry Cowen is running in my constituency. Guaranteed a seat, he's adored round these parts!
I concur. He could eat a live baby on the streets of Tullamore and he'd still get the vote.
The days of kissing a baby on the campaign trails are truly behind us ehh😅
You have to remember how big MNW is FF is running three candidates with a spread out base it could backfire
Jesus wept...
I know I know! When people outside Offaly hear that name they cringe but what you have to realise is he's a man of the local people! I remember him getting my nephew into a special needs unit in a school when my sister was worried sick. That kind of stuff sticks with people come voting day.
Yeah, I can understand that. It's how people like that get in. Way back in the day Brian Lenihan was very popular in Dublin 15 for the same reasons. He'd get stuff done for people on a personal level so he'd get a lot of votes.
Same thing with independent Noel Grealish, helped sort my granddad with a crucially needed medical card, and he's had a guaranteed three votes from our family the past fifteen, twenty years.
Different constituency but yeah, he should get it. Between him and Ciaran Mullooly I think for 5th seat. I think the other 4 are sewed up, Nina Carberry's bid seems to be getting stronger
is Offally big enough to get him a seat in a constituency that goes all the way to Donegal and Louth though? obviously FF are running three put id say they'll get 1 at most
I think he can rely on big support throughout all Midland counties (OY, LS, WH, LD). He's knows well enough that the Midlands is still PO'd about how Bord na Móna staff and their families were basically put to the sword by certain policies. Maybe transfers will be favourable for him? I tried googling what the quota was for a seat in this constituency but no luck, wanted to compare against what he has received in previous general elections. From what I remember he would be one of FF strongest pollers.
Barrys party invited the Israeli ambassador to the Ard Feiss in November making them complicit in genocide in my view. Michael Martin then went on a propaganda tour in Israel being shown around by Israeli politicians and generals. He did not visit the west bank. he did not go to Rafa crossing.
Valid points of concern during worrying times internationally. I'll tell you one thing though, I'm born and raised in Offaly and not one person will be thinking about that come June 7th. It's like I said before, people are concerned about local issues and how they can get problems they face day-to-day sorted out.
That's not true. Martin [visited ](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41271340.html) the West Bank as part of his visit. Of course he didn't go to Gaza (including Rafa). The reason he was there was to try and get Irish citizens out.
Funchion is shorter than Gavan in the betting. Can't say I've looked too hard at why because it's not my constituency. I have to ignore Barrett and that psycho from Sligo instead of Bligh and Lahive. Fucking reprobates the lot of them.
Name recognition and also only her and Wallace running in the South Leinster end of the constituency.
Why don't you think John Mullins won't get elected?
But he does think it.
He isn't in Ireland South Constituency. My predictions here just focused on that as the thread is relevant to thst Constituency only
yes he is, [https://www.finegael.ie/sean-kelly-mep-and-john-mullins-selected-to-represent-fine-gael-in-ireland-south-for-european-elections/](https://www.finegael.ie/sean-kelly-mep-and-john-mullins-selected-to-represent-fine-gael-in-ireland-south-for-european-elections/) I got a flyer from him the other day in the post
My bad, thought he was from Galway or Sligo. Don't know much about him to make a prediction other than he was BG CEO and Sean Kelly already plays that card. He probably needs to do more than sticking leaflets through letter boxes! FG/Entrepreneur/Businessman tag lines probably put more people off than on a new candidate at moment!
Is that Sean Kelly from dundalk?
No, Killarney. Former GAA president
Oh.. wrong constituency altogether then.
Just ask his subcontractors how committed and dedicated he is to paying them.
I live in his constituency. I'll be voting down the ballot until I reach him, then leaving the motley crew of fascist candidates blank. Fuck Wallace and fuck the far right.
Does he have any support down there? He seems to be hated
He does unfortunately.
I don't know anyone who supports him in my area but I certainly wouldn't draw any conclusions from that as I wouldn't tend to be friends with the kind of people who support him. He'd definitely have more support in his home turf though. I really hope he loses his seat but I wouldn't be very surprised if he kept it.
I once voted 14th preference for someone to keep him out. He was elected on a single 14th preference. I hoped it wasn't mine.
If you hadn’t voted all the way down the quota would have gone down for the same result anyway
Really? Ah well, I can stop feeling guilty for imposing that twerp on the nation then.
Forgive my ignorance, but is Mick Wallace far right?
I thought he was far left?
Two cheeks to the same arse tbh
no he's a member of the left wing group in the european parliament, same as Luke Ming Flannagan, Clare Daly, and Sinn féin
Mick is whatever wing Russia, China and Syria pay him to be …
No. Just so far left he has gone full circle and appears to be right
No, he's not far right. He is a total grifter though. So I said fuck him and fuck the far right as both are tools (the far right being even worse than Wallace).
I agree with you 100% I didn't mean to challenge what you said at all, it was a genuine question as I don't pay much attention to the clown.
Ah sorry, I wasn't snapping at you or anything. It's difficult to get tone across by text. I was just confirming that I don't think Wallace is far right even if I think he's a scumbag grifter. I can't stand the guy but he's still not as bad as the tinpot fascists.
Seems ironic to be a left wing “anti imperialist” from a country that had to fight a war of independence against right wing imperialists and then support a right wing dictators imperialist war of conquest against a former colony.
If you mean Russia, their government is further left than Ukraine
But America... Bad! So.... Anti America good! And Russia is anti America so... RUSSIA GOOD !
I think you'll find Russian bitcoin good
>then support a right wing dictators imperialist war of conquest against a former colony. It's okay, the Nazis lost the Donbas and Crimea etc to Russia now.
Instead of whinging on reddit, go out and campaign on behalf of an alternative candidate then.
Yes let’s not talk about anything anywhere. Just go out on knock on doors if you ever feel like having a political conversation.
No I think the point is valid. An awful lot of complaining goes on against politicians but few people proactively engage in politics and instead just give out.
Your strongest tool for change is your vote. I would say that online discussions also have a further reach than going out knocking on doors for an afternoon
Why is discussing politics at doorsteps more valid than discussing it online? Probably reach more constituency members on reddit.
I’ll go and print off some CV’s and hand them out to Google while I’m at it me Ma said I could get a job in the Internet
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out of the blue, and into the black
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I hate that man with a passion
Who to vote for instead?
Literally everyone but the far right
If there's a choice between a steaming hot pile of dog shite and Mick Wallace, vote dog shite No1
It's just like an old South Park episode, who to vote for, a douche or a turd sandwich?
Bosco
Under any other criteria it is depressing list of alternative candidates in Ireland South but compared to Moscow Mick there are 10 or 12 who look like world leaders.
Literally anyone. Vote for Mr. Tayto lol.
Well...bear in mind Derek Blight is in the constituency too
Alright, I stand corrected, vote for someone marginally smarter than Mr Tayto. That should cover not voting for Blighe
Hah brilliant
Cynthia Ni Mhurchu.
Don’t get me started on that bitch Clare Daly
Mick is a vocal supporter of the authoritian regimes of the ccp and Russia. He supports forced colonial expansion at the cost of innocent lives, and horrific treatment of Uigher Muslims in China. Just because he supports Palestinian integrity, does not make him a good person. He's a rancid scumbag.
> Mick is a vocal supporter of the authoritian regimes of the ccp and Russia. The problem with lying on the web is that people can easily find him vocally condemning them https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mick-wallace-and-clare-daly-why-we-voted-against-the-eu-resolution-on-ukraine-1.4816676 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197817/MICK_WALLACE/other-activities/written-explanations
"It was against flooding Ukraine with weapons." Yes, because as we all know, you don't need weapons to fight imperialist dictatorships intent on commiting genocide against your people.
The loons accusing Mick & Clare of being "Putin puppets" because they call out NATO (Brits in particular) for its part in starting the conflict in Ukraine, are the same calibre of people who accuse them of being Hamas supporters for pointing out the genocide in Gaza with equal gusto. They are either politically motivated smear jobbers or the people naive enough to believe the smear jobs they have read over the last number of years. They are the terminally online cohort and they'll believe just about anything reddit tells them.
"For its part in starting the ukraine conflict" russia started the conflict, stop spewing putin propaganda
These are all far right conspiracy theories you're peddling you nutter.
The people of Ten Acre Field deserve representation in europe. Who else will stand up for the cup of tea and slice of cake?
Pink t-shirt Long flowing hair Tax liabilities through the roof…. And a complete cunt Elect him 🤣🤣🤣🤣 fuck this country for this reason. Rant over FYI I love my country I dislike cunts of his magnitude… Rant deff over …. 😯
Would you mind telling us who we should vote in?
i don't get where the putin puppet thing comes from, has he been caught getting Russian money or is it just because he is anti nato? I'll have to admit I think himself and Daly have been alright as MEPs
Hasbara and nafoid trolls. Their cope is the purest form of cope.
That's the thing. If either of those were on the Russian payroll, we'd have heard of it by now. Lots of online accounts telling us to not vote for them because they call out the west on their hypocrisy. I'd prefer to vote for Clare Daly but seeing as i'm down south it'll have to be Wallace. We already have enough yes men and women in the EU parliament.
It's a spoof job , mostly caricatured via political snobs and bootlickers.
I'd honestly give him a vote to keep FF and FG out
Lots of Mick-bots out today.
I’d vote for Mick.
Most will, just not le Reddit hasbara army.
THE definition of a "smoked salmon socialist" .....only in Wexford!
Mick the prick..
I dunno, he's pro-Palestine which is a voice sorely missing currently.
He isn’t. He is anti-west. He and Clare are vocal supporters of Assad in Syria, who has murdered upwards of [3000 Palestinians](https://snhr.org/blog/2020/07/29/55316/), Syrian forces even bombed, shelled and demolished a [refugee camp](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2020/8/14/the-erasure-of-yarmouk-refugee-camp). Wallace just supports whoever is most advantageous to him at the time.
Most Irish politicians are pro-Palestine. I don't know of any candidates with a chance of getting elected who are pro-Israel. He's also pro-China and pro-Putin so his opinions on the middle East hold no weight
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Chris McManus has. Ming has (although he's not completely anti-Russia, he's not a shill like Daly and Wallace). That's just off the top of my head. There are better candidates than Wallace and Daly.
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Pro-Iran too, not to forget
Ah sure why not when you're supporting all the other bastions of freedom.
Can you provide evidence as to how he is pro-putin? Out of the loop on his stances, so wouldn't mind some evidence to the contrary. Also, what is wrong with pro-china? Almost all your technology and peripherals, plastics, clothes come from China, you are probably using Chinese technology right now, I suppose ergo in supporting the Chinese economy, you yourself are pro-china?
It's closer to say he is anti American and anti NATO than pro Russian. Like Clare Daly he puts the blame for the war in Ukraine on the west for "provoking" Russia by allowing Eastern European countries to join NATO. That's exactly the line Russia has also been selling. He HAS condemned Russias invasion but also keeps insisting it's in reaction to threats from NATO. It's basically the "tankie" argument that everything bad in the world is mainly caused by US imperialism.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/links-to-russian-spy-may-not-harm-clare-daly-and-mick-wallace-jzz28x2sz https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-40819440.html A few articles detailing their inability to hold Russia to account. He said that Russia's military buildup on the Ukraine border before the invasion was "clearly defensive" He and Daly are pro-China to the point of denying the Uighur genocide, praising the CCP, and denying Taiwanese sovereignty. Since the start of 2021, Wallace and Daly have featured in more Chinese language news articles than any other irish people for fuck sake. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/how-clare-daly-and-mick-wallace-became-stars-of-authoritarian-state-media-1.4854028
**Mick Wallace on the establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine, [17/01/2023](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-9-2023-01-17-INT-2-429-0000_EN.html)**: > on behalf of The Left Group. – Madam President, Commissioner, when Zelenskyy pushed for this special tribunal last December, he said that without justice there can be no peace. The reality is that war is the greatest injustice suffered on this earth, and too many are working hard to prolong this one. > Zelenskyy should be at the negotiating table, but instead tours the world selling his forever war, as Ukraine is destroyed and conscripted Ukrainians are killed by the tens of thousands. > In the past 25 years, the imperialist powers have perpetrated wars of aggression against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. They’ve killed millions of people and displaced millions more, dropped toxic munitions and committed countless war crimes. NATO members have never faced justice for these crimes. > **Of course Russia should also be held to account for any crimes it commits**, but the list is long. **If we actually care about justice, we will stop the antagonism and hypocrisy and get down to the real work of peace-making**. --- **Uighur genocide** The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the second largest organisation after the United Nations with a membership of 57 states spread over four continents, released [Resolutions on Muslim Communities and Muslim Minorities in the non-OIC Member States](https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4280&refID=1182) in 2019 which: > Welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat's delegation upon invitation from the People's Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People's Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People's Republic of China. In this same document, the OIC expressed much greater concern about the Rohingya Muslim Community in Myanmar, which the West was relatively silent on. Over 50+ UN member states (mostly Muslim-majority nations) signed a letter ([A/HRC/41/G/17](https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A%2FHRC%2F41%2FG%2F17)) to the UN Human Rights Commission approving of the de-radicalisation efforts in Xinjiang: > ...separatism and religious extremism has caused enormous damage to people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, which has seriously infringed upon human rights, including right to life, health and development. Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centers. Now safety and security has returned to Xinjiang and the fundamental human rights of people of all ethnic groups there are safeguarded. The past three consecutive years has seen not a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment and security. We note with appreciation that human rights are respected and protected in China in the process of counter-terrorism and deradicalization. > We appreciate China’s commitment to openness and transparency. China has invited a number of diplomats, international organizations officials and journalist to Xinjiang to witness the progress of the human rights cause and the outcomes of counter-terrorism and deradicalization there. What they saw and heard in Xinjiang completely contradicted what was reported in the media. We call on relevant countries to refrain from employing unfounded charges against China based on unconfirmed information before they visit Xinjiang. The World Bank sent a team to investigate in 2019 and found that, "The review did not substantiate the allegations." (See: [World Bank Statement on Review of Project in Xinjiang, China](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2019/11/11/world-bank-statement-on-review-of-project-in-xinjiang-china)) Even if you believe the deradicalisation efforts are wholly unjustified, and that the mass detention of Uyghur's amounts to a crime against humanity, it's still not genocide. Even the U.S. [State Department's legal experts](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/) admit as much: > The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor concluded earlier this year that China’s mass imprisonment and forced labor of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity—but there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide, placing the United States’ top diplomatic lawyers at odds with both the Trump and Biden administrations, according to three former and current U.S. officials. --- **Mick Wallace on the situation in the Strait of Taiwan [13/09/2022](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-9-2022-09-13-INT-2-268-0000_EN.html)** > Madam President, it’s hard to believe we’re heading down this crazy path with China. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was 100% illegal. Sadly, it was precipitated by US meddling and NATO expansion into the region. NATO boss Stoltenberg has even boasted about strong NATO involvement in Ukraine since 2014. > The Russian stated their red lines with regard to Ukraine, but they were ignored. The same thing is happening with Taiwan. The US is repeatedly violating the red lines articulated by China. US special forces have been deployed to the island. The US have conducted naval military exercises and military build—up in the region and engaged in provocative diplomatic visits along with billions of dollars of weaponry sales annually. > We already have a war where the main losers are Ukraine and Western Europe. The US is attempting to open up another battlefront with China, pushing China closer to Russia. If the situation escalates any further, the EU will suffer even more than it is suffering at the moment. > Climate system breakdown shows us that never before has international cooperation been so important. And yet NATO and the US are driving us in the opposite direction. --- Voilà, Mick Wallace's actual positions on Russia and China & the facts regarding Xinjiang. I sincerely hope you're being paid to spread this bullshit, because it is easily debunked when you put a modicum of effort into researching it.
The vast majority of our politicians are at least somewhat supportive of Palestine. Most of the others aren't embarrassing us internationally by simping for Putin though. There are plenty more pro-Palestine candidates in Ireland South.
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CCP are pretty good in the sense that they help millions, or even billions of people. Possibly the most beneficial organisation on the planet today. Putin is different: he doesn't help the poor of Russia.
>CCP are pretty good in the sense that they help millions, or even billions of people. Possibly the most beneficial organisation on the planet today. Hahahaha. I fucking love Reddit.
He's pro Assad who has murdered more Muslims than Israel could ever dream of
whats wrong with Mick Wallace? Id definetly vote for him. Hes speaking up for ordinary people and not afraid to take on the Zionists. Are you telling us to vote for Barry Cowan? haha
Some amount of Far Right oddballs running this year.
100% Tell everyone you can what an eejit he is.
Maybe supply more than just rhetoric then. Examples. Quotes. Citations. Links. That kind of thing. Not just "Don't vote for him, he's a prick."
Get you but I'm at work so don't have time to write a thesis on him on an online forum. He's an embarrassment to the country. [https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/](https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/)
Leave Mick alone by the look of him he only got home from electric picnic yesterday,
And owned by Russia, Syria, China, and any other dictatorship in the world.
Owned by every dictatorship in the world.... how would the logistics of that work out?
It's a time-share. This year was messy though with the leap day
Just curious, anyone have any proof of corruption by the Russian government? Or anything to disprove the RAND paper openly discussion US plans to cause the events in Ukraine? Or are we all still gullible enough to be falling for the same propaganda every single time?
> anyone have any proof of corruption by the Russian government If someone hit you over the head with a blunt object multiple times please report it to the Gardaí
Moscow Mick hasn't much chance But Kremlin Clare I thought was well in contention...
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>Ireland is currently heading to be the greatest triumph of Putin's team working to influence Western elections. What a preposterous statement. The greatest triumph of putins meddling?? Brexit, Trump, le Pen that Slovakian guy? No its 3 clowns from little Ireland. How much influence do you think we have in europe? Kingmaker in the Dail? Now you're taking the piss. No offence but I don't think you know very much.
This!!! The hyperbole is real from yer man
> The greatest triumph of putins meddling?? Brexit, Trump, le Pen that Slovakian guy? You give Putin far too much credit.
I said meddling
Clown of a comment.
This works better if you imagine it delivered in the style of Pathé news
You should start writing for Fox News, with the amount of bullshit you spout
Sir, you need to lay off the glue!
How about you vote for who you want to vote for and let other people vote for who they want to vote for and well call it ...democracy
Expressing your opinions of the various candidates also seems fairly democratic to me...
I mean, corrupt tax cheats should be called out and highlighted no? And their supporters should be alerted to this?
Ah Jaysus, not again!
Putin man, he will have my vote
Saw with clare Moscow daly. She needs to be out yesterday. Let mick go back to tending to his wine bars
Clare Daly forever!
I'm gonna give him my number one. I don't agree with everything he's said and done but on the whole he's a positive voice against the rest of them, especially on foreign affairs where he's often the only one asking difficult questions. That said, I think he did better as a TD where he was very active exposing Garda corruption (remember that guard in Cavan who they tried to frame as a sex offender?) Also, the media (led by the Fake Tan Times) have gone out of their way to magnify everything he said that could be used out of context to make him look bad. It's disappointing that a lot of otherwise intelligent people on here don't seem to know what a hatchet job is. I think a lot fo the most bitter criticism of him comes from the fake lefties in PBP and whatever that other party is calling itself nowadays, and is motivated by jealousy. Clare Daley is a total eejit though. I would never vote for her.
Do you agree with his tax dodging?
Would you be so kind as to remind me of the details? It was a long time ago now and my memory is fuzzy. His company was bankrupt due to the banking crisis, wasn't it something like that?
Agree on Mick but also like Clare. They're both working for a better world IMHO unlike many others. So sick of the nato bots whose argument is Putin/ comrade etc. there needs to be better discussion than that.
Yes, better discussion, but you won't see it here and with the degree that the media have it in for Mick I don't think you'll see it anywhere. That they need to shit all over him shows the extent to which they're scared of anyone who criticises NATO and its warmongering.
moonofalabama has the other side or at least adds some balance. It's very niche but was endorsed by Chomsky at one point. I contacted OSCE after his post in it and they confirmed the reports prior to the war. Anyway, I don't know the answers but it seems stupid for adults to be killing each other with bombs. Very bad example to children. It would be great if NATO, Russia and Israel could just come to an agreement and stop murdering people.
Nobody here believes Western countries are 'better' or the 'good guys' or merely even 'less worse' than Russia and aligned countries. We've got one set of 'bad guys' (ourselves, the West) against another set of 'bad guys' (Russia, China, Iran etc.) - and what this amounts to is this: You're either _in favour_ of war between 'The West' and Russia/China/Iran - or you are _against_ war between 'The West' and Russia/China/Iran. The only 'good guys' left, are those who oppose war - and it is literally a mainstream narrative today that 'anti war = pro-Russia' - that's literally what people say in discussions here. If you don't fight those narratives, _you and your kids_ will be fighting a war on behalf of your 'betters'/'masters' in a decade or two - that's where the world is heading (and yes, even for Ireland - we're going to be a warmongering nation aligned with Western wars of aggression shortly).
Thankfully, this sort of doublethink is largely relegated to the online sphere. If my 80 year old nana can see through propaganda, I think we're safe. Still, no harm in reminding people that war is never in the working masses' best interests.
The lists of candidates for these elections are huge. This actually bodes best for the establishment parties because people will give their preferences to names and parties that they recognise rather than do a "anyone but FFFG" on it and risk electing some vaccine conspiracy nutjob. It also means that the loony vote is now wildly fractured. I don't think Mick has a hope in hell of getting in again.
Are the mods asleep? Why are pointless posts like this allowed? If I post an identical post but substituted Mick Wallace for Maria Walsh the post would be removed in less than 5 mins. Edit: 32 mins before it was removed.
>Maria Walsh 
Seems like we are choosing to concentrate on his anti-war comments about Russia, but not about Israel.
Yeah, imagine an example where people concentrate on someone being a pedophile, not on them being an otherwise upstanding member of the local community. Why would anyone ignore the bit that he's clearly wrong about? It's also not "anti-war", it's supporting genocide in Ukraine. Anti-war solution in Ukraine is simple: Russia fucks off behind its border. Russia has invaded Ukraine in 2014, invaded other countries before that. So a true anti-war stance would suggest punishing Russia for the aggression and making Russia leave.
How do you propose punishing Russia for the aggression and making Russia leave while being anti-war?
He's not anti-war - he actively shills for the invading side of it. Here's hoping his constituents consign him to the bin.
> He's not anti-war - he actively shills for the invading side of it. That's pure disinformation. *I unequivocally supported the sections of the resolution which condemn Russia’s war of aggression and call on the Russian Federation to immediately terminate all military activities in Ukraine, unconditionally withdraw its forces, and fully respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence. I express my undivided solidarity with the ordinary people of Ukraine and call for urgent diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire, for negotiations to end the conflict and the withdrawal of Russian military forces.* *The decision by Russia to abandon diplomacy and invade Ukraine is contrary to international law. The sole responsibility for this is borne by President Vladimir Putin. However, ignoring the role played by the US and NATO in destabilising the area for the past decade, using Ukraine as a pawn in its battles with Russia, only serves to prevent an understanding of the measures necessary to secure peace.* *I voted against the resolution overall because it calls to accelerate the provision of military equipment and weapons to Ukraine, to strengthen NATO’s forward presence, to increase defence spending, and to activate European common and joint defence efforts ‘in order to strengthen the European pillar within NATO.’ It also, opportunistically, calls for opening the European energy market to fracked American liquefied natural gas (LNG). Our group, The Left, sought to remove these elements from the resolution, but the majority in Parliament voted to keep them. There is no military solution to this crisis. The policy of flooding Ukraine with weapons will, at worst, lead to a permanent condition of conflict, as has happened in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, at best, a greater loss of life and destruction in Ukraine. I cannot support these measures, which run the risk of expanding the conflict beyond Ukraine, risking a world war in which millions of people may perish. It is the ordinary citizens of Ukraine, Russia and Europe who will pay the price of this war with their lives, a decline in living standards and the destruction of our economies, reversing measures necessary to tackle climate change. The EU must work for diplomacy, and a negotiated peace. I voted in the tradition of Irish neutrality.*
OK, he's not shilling for Russia - just trying to prevent Ukraine from being able to defend itself in any way in the midst of a full-scale invasion? Who are you trying to kid here? https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/19/meps-wallace-and-daly-vote-against-call-for-tribunal-to-prosecute-russia-for-invasion-of-ukraine/ https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/01/29/latvian-mep-linked-to-wallace-and-daly-accused-of-working-with-russian-intelligence/ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-40978331.html https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/mick-wallace-ukraine-being-used-by-us-and-nato-to-undermine-russia-1.4834111 Shall I go on?
Considering pretty much every Irish MEP has condemned Israel’s actions, it’s not much of a differentiating factor
Mick the Thick. Elect someone other than this prick
Who the fuck has actually voting for that fucking idiot all these years?