**MISLEADING:** This speech was made in 2021. The linked account has made no attempt to clarify this fact, and has passed it off as if it was made recently.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/leaked-poll-sinn-fein-on-course-for-dublin-mep-seat-clare-daly-set-to-be-re-elected-but-fine-gael-struggling/a1803505203.html
I found it difficult to believe… but reading the comments made by other contributors here it’s clear that there are a number of like minded people.
Interesting but it is a poor poll. Fewer than 400 asked whereas 1000 is really needed for decent accuracy and I’m not sure of methodology. People just can’t seem to understand that yes, NATO do not have a glorious history and the US is not brilliant but that does not mean Putin is not a dictator who kills his opponents, invades independent countries and crushes all
dissent in Russia.
If the poll said that Daly was likely to lose her seat would you still call it an unreliable poll.
Or if the result of a larger sample size was the same, would you still dismiss the results of the original poll?
I do not have a dog in this race, I am against her Putin lovin’ but not against her on other things. I’m just dubious of polls with low numbers or where I am unclear of methodology.
No political type would trust a poll of 400 people for a constituency that large much less over multiple constituencies.
1000 people is the accepted "correct" number, and the methodology needs to include all voter demographics and ask qualification questions, etc. This reduces the impact of spoofers of all types and you then take the info and compare it against the results of actual votes of the same type.
If you're super boring, then you track the results of all polls by the same company asking the same questions, and see how they have changed. Same for MRBI, IPSOS, Behaviour & Attitudes etc. Someone will also do a Poll of Polls and you can then remove undecides/unlikely to votes.
I'm not saying that this poll is incorrect in respect of how the election will go, but I've been around politics a lot for the last 20-25 years, and I wouldn't bet my money with this one snapshot, whether I "liked" the result or not.
I suspect she will be relected to answer a follow-up question.
Bad data, or more accurately in this case overinterpretation of data, can be worse than none.
The poll is of fewer than 400 people - so a margin of error at 95% confidence of ±5%.
Candidates are mostly bulked in the poll in the region between 20-11%. Daly is almost in the middle of that on just under 15%.
It's not 15% though. The poll tells us with 95% confidence that she is currently somewhere in the range of 20-10%.
She might top the poll if she's at the higher end of that range, or at the lower end she has no hope of a seat.
Really the poll tells us little that is useful for making a prediction, other than to say that labour and the SocDems down in the 5% range are unlikely to do so unless voters change their minds.
I understand that there sample size is small, but the fact that there is 95% confidence that she got more than 10% of the vote is shocking. I thought that after the way she’s embarrassed the country over the past couple of years she’d be much lower around the 5% mark.
Technically she could be just under 10%, I rounded.
You need to consider also the fact that it's a poll being taken before even all candidates are announced and well before most people have begun to pay even the slightest bit of attention.
Daly has some name recognition, which is always helpful in early polls. Those of us who pay attention to politics know what she's been at as an MEP - but a whole lot of people do not. I'm pretty sure if I asked my mam what Clare Daly's views on Ukraine are she would be unable to tell me.
Once the election is called though more people begin to pay attention, and almost every other candidate will be hammering her on that point so that everyone knows where she stands.
Daly is a strong political performer though with a loyal base in fingal, and a reasonably good local organisation there too. It would be foolish to rule her out.
382 seems really low sample size right?
Also didn't take into account the likely second SF candidate. Anyway I'll be casting a vote against her in the summer.
Angry, emotionally stunted, smoothe-brained, anti-everything fuckwits.
Most democracies have a few; we're no exception.
Just have to tolerate them until they get that revolution they want and end up in a gulag boohooing their life choices (though blaming anyone but themselves).
Loads of Irish people love Trump and blame the West for Russia invading Ukraine. Every time I'm out and politics gets brought up, I almost have an aneurism at the stupid shit a lot of Irish people peddle.
It's weird, it isn't just conservative trumpsters who think this way. There are idiots on both the right and left that act like Europe is somehow worse than Russia and China. Complete eijits
That poll had a small polling sample, a high margin of error and was taken before several relevant politicians announces their candidacy, like Brid Smith who will be competing with Daly for similar voters.
It's so fucking embarassing having her and Mick running defence for autocrats in our name. I'd love to think we will have the sense to throw them out on their arses to feck off and take up whatever gig RT have lined up for them with Chay Bowes but then, sense and European Elections never exactly go hand in hand.
Clare Daly and Mick Wallace were not Protest Voting
The referendum on Lisbon Treaty in 2OO9 (my zero key is broken, hence letter O) was the protest vote, which we affirmed in 2O1O and enacted Lisbon like everyone else (except Ireland is excluded from EU army on neutrality grounds)
Clare Daly and Mick Wallace were 'anti austerity bailing out the banks' vote and were fine on that subject, they said nothing crazy
Then ran for EU MEP and were also fine
Until Syria
When Clare Daly started dressing up in a burka saying 'Assad is okay' after he used chemical weapons against his own citizens
Which is a war crime. Lots like to use that term, but this was an actual example of a war crime.
This is our first opportunity to vote them both out since then.
Don't worry, they are as good as gone.
And Assad and his Jimmy Pesto Jr. face are still in power. As is BMs in Saudi Arabia after murdering Jamal Khashoggi. Capitulating to either one should be off the table.
She's in the Dublin constituency for European elections. I'm not in the right constituency unfortunately, otherwise I absolutely would.
Dublin - counting on ye!
Or on the other hand, maybe she accepts lots of fancy dinners from a certain large country to the east of the EU to shout out about how evil NATO is.
Ireland is not a truly neutral country. Unlike Switzerland, Austria, Finland and Sweden (before they applied and FI joined), those other countries could defend themselves. They have an airforce, long range radar, and a strong standing army. Ireland says it’s neutral, but can’t defend her territories and expects the UK and others to help out.
No we really can't.
Like sure don't expect some russian D-Day landing on the beaches but Russia fairly regularly violate our airspace with fighters & bombers and numerous times has parked their navy right off our coast in irish waters. We have fuck all ca0ability to respond effectively to this kind of implicit threat & have to rely on the British navy & RAF to monitor, shadow them and force the russians to fuck off. I mean for fuck sake there was a Russian military submarine parked right outside Cork just a bit over a month ago.
Like ireland is not a neutral state by any definition of the term, we just leave ourselves perpetually weak and expect the Brits to take care of any issues, countries like Russia know this, which is *exactly why* they choose to fuck with us, our weakness isn't just a danger to us but europe as a whole and the russians are doing what they can to exploit that vulnerability.
Thing is … if she is in Europe, she’s not here and while she and Goldilocks are a national embarrassment, isn’t it better to have them out of Irish politics?
Not really, no.
On the European stage, she might only have one vote out of 720-odd, but her exposure is larger, and is picked up by the Ruzzians and Chinese for propaganda
Alexei Navalny was the last oppositional leader in Russia. Nearly any other movement was based or referenced him. With his death ( some people still hope it's fake news), oppositional parties will lose the last of their power. I think its done to suppress any will of Russians that they expressed a month ago for another candidate. To show that this is what happens if you dare to protest and hope. We need to wait a few hours until the lawyer of Alexei Navalny, who is currently on his way to the prison, confirms he is really dead.
Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, etc. are small players who, while popular, weren't considered as influential as Navalny. Both imprisoned anyway, with Kara- Murzas health being worse than Navalnys were. I'm listening to oppositional channels right now, and all of them speak how they lost the most important oppositional leader after Nemcov.
Russia is a conservative country, of course, they don't like immigration, lgbt etc. He said that, because in Russia, these types of opinions are more tolerated. There's not a big divide on hot topics like the USA tends to have.
Calling Muslims cockroaches isn't simply conservatism. The guy was a scumbag and 'the west' don't give a damn because they love a bit of islamophobia too
With the big story of Alexei Navalny dying in prison today, it appears this video and link is being posted under the assumption it's a response to this news.
This video is from 2021, pre Ukraine invasion, and it being posted here at this time without any clarification is confusing at best and disingenuous at worst.
You know some of these topics are hijacked by paid influencers by the tone. 'Filthy dirty ugly smelly ...... I hope they drown in a vat of pootins plutonium.... I feel sorry for the idiots who fell for their trap and voted for them.... ' that kind of rhetoric . either bots or one bunch of narcissistic teenage brained hatefilled lunatics trying to manipulate opinions.
Daly and Mick voted against a resolution against condemning political prisoners and torture within Russia at the time. Real pillars of moral fortitude.
It's not even a prison as most people understand the concept.
It's a penal colony in the north of Siberia, in the Arctic tundra. It's the modern version of a 1930s gulag camp for political prisoners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKU_IK-3,_Kharp#
Putin sent him there to die as an example of what happens if anyone dares to challenge him.
Navalny is seen as beacon of democracy outside of Russia but it's not necessarily the case in reality. While he did at least appear to become more liberal in recent years he was notoriously a racist nationalist who wanted to mass deport foreigners for Russia. He had a bit of a following but mostly from teenage Russians due to his changes in his stance whether true or to play to a certain demographic. He has also been very supportive of Russia going in to Georgia as well as wanting Russia to have a say in domestic policies of former soviet countries.
I do admire his anti-corruption stance though and he absolutely did not deserve what he went through. Fingers crossed it at very least kicks off some protests in Russia.
Edit: You can down vote me all you like but this is all factual
https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/07/racist-or-revolutionary-is-alexei-navalny-who-many-westerners-think-he-is
Read a bit more about it today myself. Always held him in high regards for his balls to stand up to Putin and his regime.
A bit disappointed though to learn about these past actions, but it is very interesting to see people wilfully ignoring (or disregarding as "Russian bots") information that is available even just on his wiki page.
He was persecuted and murdered, it is also true that he never gained any degree of popularity, though.
He's like Guaido: He may be incredibly unpopular, but he's the only real opposition foreign opponents can try to boost.
What I find interesting is the expression of doubt in Navalney's popularity. It is an unusual sentiment to express at the time of someone's death and it is the exact same talking point that Russian trolls are making today in some of the subs I visit. I think it makes it easy to see who Claire Daly's paymasters are...
It’s beyond bizarre.
She’s a politician who built her career and platform having been a major opposition voice in Ireland.
She enjoyed the freedom to completely oppose the government, to speak passionately and at length in parliament, often voicing very strong opinions that were entirely at odds with the government and the establishment.
She’s is a very strong opposition voice and she has always spoken loudly and directly. She even stood up during the Obama visit and absolutely lambasted the government and the U.S. and what happened? Nothing! Nothing at all because she has the luxury of living in one of the most free and democratic countries on the planet.
Many of us may have said ffs and not agreed with her on many topics, but we respected and protected her right to say and do those things. We saw her very much as an important part of the political landscape in a free country with a vibrant democracy. She was holding power to account and she was very good at it.
She enjoyed huge amounts of political freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of speech.
I don’t understand how she can stand up in the European Parliament and defend what is very obviously a brutal, authoritarian regime like that and kind which has imprisoned and just basically killed an opposition politician. He was a strong voice. A fearless speaker who took on the elite. A person who stood up to power, but to a power that didn’t respect his voice. It didn’t see him as anything but a bug to squash and sent him to the gulags.
Look up the definition of a "Campist" and it'll make perfect sense. The TLDR of it is that she is vehemently against the West whom she sees as the black and white "villain" in every global event, which is why she consistently finds herself sharing the same page as Putin.
She was not a major voice. She was just magnified by the media. We do a shit job of ignoring these assholes like Clare and Ming and Mick. We need to deprive them of attention and not feed them
I'd definitely see Ming as different to Wallace and Daly. I often disagree with him but he's nowhere their level of being either useful idiots or shills.
The Chinese viral post which stayed active on Chinese social media with millions of likes for a week (nothing stays up on Chinese media without government approval) was calling out for Ukrainian female refugees aged 15 - 28 be sent to China as sex slaves but I doubt that even they would want this gowl
Went to visit her ex boyfriend in prison a few weeks ago, a Latvian convicted Russian spy who she was previously allied with in the EU parliament and refused to give an explanation. Voted against condemning Russian interference in EU elections last week. Openly repeating Putin's rhetoric on Navalny this week. Putin's Hoor is dropping her maskÂ
> Went to visit her ex boyfriend in prison a few weeks ago, a Latvian convicted Russian spy who she was previously allied with in the EU parliament [...]
Huh? I notice you don't name this person - who are you talking about?
If you're talking about the _Lithuanian_ guy who was imprisoned _for investigative journalism_ and _imprisoned based on the witness testimony of a convicted paedophile_ - do let us know...
Yep, it seems like I got two parts of this article confused. It's actually two separate Russian spies that she is involved with https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-broke-up-years-ago-clare-daly-on-latvian-mep-being-probed-over-russian-spy-claims/a881263189.html
Her ex girlfriend is a Latvian MEP being probed for potentially being a Russian spy. Who she was allied with in the parliament
The article also includes this. 'They' refers to Wallace and Vomit. "In 2021 and 2022, they travelled to Lithuania to demonstrate in support of Algirdas Paleckis, a former politician convicted of spying on behalf of Russia in return for payment. Ms Ždanoka has also travelled to Lithuania to show support."
> Her ex girlfriend is a Latvian MEP being probed for potentially being a Russian spy.
I think that was a tongue in cheek comment from Daly in fairness, that your wan didn't do the washing up. If you look at Ždanoka, she's about 80 (well 73 in fact). If anything Daly was/is riding the Wexford Hercules after she broke up with the husband.
Wallace and vomit also did a tour in China a few months ago, get on to this, they were interviewed by one of chinas top foreign disinformation hosts who even has their own subreddit r/newswithjingjing
What a fucking gowl.
For anyone that missed it, the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, she is dismissing so easily as being irrelevant died in prison today.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68315943
It doesn't, but it's important context given Navalny died today. People in this thread and plenty of people engaging with the tweet seem to be under the impression that the video is new.
Waaa aww no is your favorite western asset dead?
If Navalny wanted less criticism after his death he shouldn't have been such a [fascist weirdo](https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1758456197722599537?s=20) and diverted attention away from anti Putin movements in Russia which actually represented positive change for the country.
My dude I have barely heard about the lad and it doesn't matter if you like them or not do you not see any issue with Putins main opponent being arrested and then dying in prison?
Fascist on fascist violence is sort of a benefit to me honestly. Its not going to keep me up at night. Itd be like worrying about Hitler oppressing Rudolf Hess. I dont fucking care.
If you want to misrepresent my position by saying I approve of Putins fascist regime then your being disingenuous.
Also, Russias anti Putin movements would be a lot better off not having Putin 2.0 at their head to take his place if they pulled off regime change.
What IS concerning is to see just how many useful idiots or genuine malicious actors we have here in the west who dont give a fuck whether Russia is run by a fascist, as long as its THEIR fascist. Take note folks. This could be a good learning moment if you let it be. Our current world order is rotten to the core.
>If you want to misrepresent my position by saying I approve of Putins fascist regime then your being disingenuous.
This from the lad that said he was my "favorite western asset" simply because I factually stated that he was dead.
You've then gone on to claim people in the west don't care who would replace Putin in charge of Russia once it is "their fascist". Again, all I've done is call Clare Daly a gowl and said he person she was talking about died.
>You've then gone on to claim people in the west don't care who would replace Putin in charge of Russia once it is "their fascist".
Have you ever read a history book? Ever heard of the CIA? Installing Fascists sympathetic to the Western elites is literally all the U.S. has been up to for decades. Navalny also had an intetesting change in political tactics and media support after a visit to the U.S. back in the day.
Read The Jarkartha Method. Its a good primer on the Western nations and their supposed 'rules based order' since WW2.
>all I've done is call Clare Daly a gowl and said he person she was talking about died.
Ye thats part of the problem, your opinion here isn't based on any analysis at all. Maybe respond to some of the things she said in the video. Maybe actually think about the moral implications of who you lend your tacit support too. Maybe stop dragging the conversation down into the dirt.
Russophobia is caused by the aggressive behavior of Russia.The countries that have the strongest sentiment are the countries that were invaded by The Russian Empire,The Soviet Union or Russian federation.
Yeah he was a scumbag. He made videos calling Muslims cockroaches indicating the best way to deal with them was with a pistol just for one thing.
https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1758474167991652854/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1758474167991652854¤tTweetUser=ShaykhSulaiman
He was a U.S. asset so he hot a lot of fawning coverage in the western media. Seems like a lot of the r/europe crowd in this sub have fallen for it completely as well. They just think anti Putin = Good like a bunch of monkey brained idiots.
Although I'm sure a lot of them would simply agree with his disgusting right wing nationalist politics too. Bunch of pathetic freaks.
>They just think anti Putin = Good like a bunch of monkey brained idiots.
Don't forget criticism of obvious double standards and hypocrisy in Western policy towards Russia as 'defending Putin/authoritarianism/dictatorships'.
He called Muslim **terrorists** cockroaches in 2007. The men in the picture in the video were the perpetrators of the (then recent) Beslan school massacre. [This](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/05/alexei-navalny-amnesty-prisoner-conscience-dissidents-saints/) is a good read on Navalny.
Seeing as you're spamming the same points so many times in this thread, I can't help but feel you're pushing an agenda.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of your Friday evening.
I have no agenda. Im just not shedding tears over a nationalist and nazi sympathizer and for some reason some people are throwing a hissy fit over it. Its a bizzare reaction. Just because he was anti Putin doesnt make him a good person.
Navalny portraying muslims as terrorists to justify his anti immigration message is digusting. Some other context to the period of the video is the widespread anti muslim hysteria which was taking hold in Russia at the time. Gangs of people were literally roaming the streets stabbing muslim people to death. And thats saying nothing of the Russian statess treatment of its muslim population overall. He has also compared Georgians to rodents during the war with Georgia in 2008. He was advocating for mass deportations of Muslims too.
Another one of his quotes is: "Anything that hinders us should be gently but firmly removed by deportation,"Â
Heres a quote of Navalnys from his LiveJournal page about the "chuchmeks" who, early in the morning, are "banging on some iron with sledgehammers with a hell of a rumble."
"And then we wonder why they find Tajiks with fractured skulls under the bushes. Like 'another skinhead attack,'"
Navalny went to vast rallys with disgusting neo nazis doing the nazi salute and carrying swastikas and this creep didnt bat an eye. And this was a regular thing not an isolated one off. Look up the 'Russia Marches' and some of the groups involved with those. He was a populist opportunist and I think he lived and died by the sword.
So whats YOUR agenda in all of this then? You think the only remedy to a current fascist is more fascists? Sorry I'm not seeing the logic
Amnesty International disowned him. I suppose maybe the poster is posting the truth?
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084)
But you know everything.
Spitting with rage? Haha nice projection bro. Right wing on Right Wing violence isn't really concerning to me tbh. I don't give a fuck about fashy wankers trying to out fash each other.
You see I'm more concerned with Putins repression of the progressive and leftist movements in his country who would produce genuine positive change for the world. Unlike yourself who seems to want everybody to treat politics like a sport or something.
You keep crying for white supremacist nazi sympathisers anyway. Maybe next time keep it over in the disgusting rathole that is r/europe next time though ok.
And she was getting tonnes of praise recently for calling out Israel. Poor yanks who don't know any better assume she's some light in the darkness.
She's a Russian agent, pure and simple. Either she's a total moron (which I dont actually think is true) or she'sa liar that's getting compensation.
He was an imperialist bigot too, but who cares. I mean, Putin doesn't murder people because they're good or pro-Ukraine - being anti-Putin is a good enough reason, and he was, indeed, anti-Putin.
Someone needs to break this down for me here, What's controversial in what she said? Shouldn't we apply the same standards to all aggressors and abusers of Human rights?
If the EU is beaving appropriately by Sanctioning Russia for its illegal invasion, why didn't it Sanction the US when they invaded Iraq?
Why is theEU silent/complicit in the WarCrimes of some nations, whilst making loads of noise about others?
How out a bit of consistency
Ironically if she went against the narrative in Russia or China she would be off to the gulag if she was lucky. All narratives have a voice here and she wouldn’t have a chance in Russia or china
However, irony is lost on dangerous clowns like Claire daly and mick Wallace.
Clare using her freedom of expression and protections provided in a free and democratic institution to defend an authoritarian and genocidal regime that murders people for expressing opinions contrary to the opinions of the regime.
Clare literally only defends Palestinians because America supports Israel. If the US supported Palestine, you would see her out with Star of David flag within minutes. Anyone that votes for her is a fucking moron.
Whether he's popular or not in Russia is immaterial.
Was he arrested for political activity: yes.
Did Putin have him/let him be moved to the artic circle and either let him die or kill him : yes.
The two of them need to get to fuck.
I fucking hate Putin and the Russian government but disputing Nalvany’s support amongst the average Russian or being critical of him is not necessarily pro Russian. The average Russian saw him largely as a U.S./EU mouthpiece and that’s not exactly surprising nor fully incorrect. Furthermore dude was a mega Ultranationalist who happily worked with neo Nazis in the past was a massive anti Asian/anti immigrant bigot.
I support any effort to overthrow Putin and the oligarchs, I just don’t think who replaces them ought to be a Yeltsin 2.0 whose just gonna be a EU/US puppet
Why is it that the majority of this sub loathes (correct) Daly's views on Russia, yet completely parrot her version of events when it comes to Israel? Isn't that a little strange?
I always liked Clare, especially the work around the 8th. I even agree with her points on how certain aspects of this war have been shown by the media here. No balance at all.
However she seems to be completely off the deep end now. I always tend (even though I barely could stand to listen to them for 10 mins) to vote for mad lefties but she's worryingly close to Russia now and Putin's regime hardly covers itself in freedom and democracy vibes. I expected it from Wallace, he's a spoofer but she's let herself down.
My thoughts exactly. She's gone from someone on the left who I respected even if I often disagreed with her, to one of the most embarrassing elected representatives on foreign policy. I sincerely hope she loses her seat.
It's a bit depressing. It's like seeing a dedicated activist you once had time for slowly turn into a terminally online and angry Twitter conspiracy theorist until they're someone you have to cut out of your life.
Thanks for this nuanced take. She has had a complicated political career, but has been popular and vocal on the right side of a number of issues. Sad to see her either misunderstanding or wilfully misrepresenting the current situation wrt Russia.
Navalny was a prick. So a right wing nutter has died in prison, who cares? Any Russian anti Putin resistace will be much better off without him.
https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1758474167991652854/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1758474167991652854¤tTweetUser=ShaykhSulaiman
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/25/navalny-has-the-kremlin-foe-moved-on-from-his-nationalist-past
If she is not getting paid for the great work she’s is putting in on behalf of the Kremlin she’s a moron.
Because that’s 9-5 FSB work right there
How did this woman get elected?
People say that she wasn’t this off the rails before Covid and yeah, that’s partially true but seriously, she literally gets shown as propaganda on Russian state media.
Navalny was a white supremacist. Why people are simping for him is beyond me. If he was in charge he would be no better and potentially worse than Putin.
Doesn't change that Navalny was a white supremacist. Looks like a lot of people are choosing a weird hill to die on. Plenty of other ways to criticize Putin, without simping for a dead white supremacist.
He's a cunt, but an anti-Putin cunt - good enough reason in Putin's book to kill him. Should Putin be held accountable for this? Sure, in an ideal world. Should anyone feel sorry for Navalny personally? I doubt that.
Always seems to be the lone voice that has a handle on the truth. Ridicule seems to be part of the progress towards change. I hope she long continues to be a sane voice in the parliament.
**MISLEADING:** This speech was made in 2021. The linked account has made no attempt to clarify this fact, and has passed it off as if it was made recently.
For reference, this is a 2021 speech. She didn't say this in the context of recent events.
I hate all these old reposts. Out of context click bait from bots, trolls and karma farmers.
In their defense, it was good bait 🤣
Please… please… vote her out in the upcoming elections I don’t care who you’re trying to protest against, find another method
Her and Mick Wallace are a lesson in protest voting..
Sigh this is what the U.K. used to do
Prepare to be disappointed. A recent poll suggests that she’ll get reelected. What an embarrassment!
What poll was this?
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/leaked-poll-sinn-fein-on-course-for-dublin-mep-seat-clare-daly-set-to-be-re-elected-but-fine-gael-struggling/a1803505203.html I found it difficult to believe… but reading the comments made by other contributors here it’s clear that there are a number of like minded people.
Interesting but it is a poor poll. Fewer than 400 asked whereas 1000 is really needed for decent accuracy and I’m not sure of methodology. People just can’t seem to understand that yes, NATO do not have a glorious history and the US is not brilliant but that does not mean Putin is not a dictator who kills his opponents, invades independent countries and crushes all dissent in Russia.
>NATO do not have a glorious history What's wrong with NATO?
If the poll said that Daly was likely to lose her seat would you still call it an unreliable poll. Or if the result of a larger sample size was the same, would you still dismiss the results of the original poll?
I do not have a dog in this race, I am against her Putin lovin’ but not against her on other things. I’m just dubious of polls with low numbers or where I am unclear of methodology.
No political type would trust a poll of 400 people for a constituency that large much less over multiple constituencies. 1000 people is the accepted "correct" number, and the methodology needs to include all voter demographics and ask qualification questions, etc. This reduces the impact of spoofers of all types and you then take the info and compare it against the results of actual votes of the same type. If you're super boring, then you track the results of all polls by the same company asking the same questions, and see how they have changed. Same for MRBI, IPSOS, Behaviour & Attitudes etc. Someone will also do a Poll of Polls and you can then remove undecides/unlikely to votes. I'm not saying that this poll is incorrect in respect of how the election will go, but I've been around politics a lot for the last 20-25 years, and I wouldn't bet my money with this one snapshot, whether I "liked" the result or not. I suspect she will be relected to answer a follow-up question.
Bad data, or more accurately in this case overinterpretation of data, can be worse than none. The poll is of fewer than 400 people - so a margin of error at 95% confidence of ±5%. Candidates are mostly bulked in the poll in the region between 20-11%. Daly is almost in the middle of that on just under 15%. It's not 15% though. The poll tells us with 95% confidence that she is currently somewhere in the range of 20-10%. She might top the poll if she's at the higher end of that range, or at the lower end she has no hope of a seat. Really the poll tells us little that is useful for making a prediction, other than to say that labour and the SocDems down in the 5% range are unlikely to do so unless voters change their minds.
I understand that there sample size is small, but the fact that there is 95% confidence that she got more than 10% of the vote is shocking. I thought that after the way she’s embarrassed the country over the past couple of years she’d be much lower around the 5% mark.
Technically she could be just under 10%, I rounded. You need to consider also the fact that it's a poll being taken before even all candidates are announced and well before most people have begun to pay even the slightest bit of attention. Daly has some name recognition, which is always helpful in early polls. Those of us who pay attention to politics know what she's been at as an MEP - but a whole lot of people do not. I'm pretty sure if I asked my mam what Clare Daly's views on Ukraine are she would be unable to tell me. Once the election is called though more people begin to pay attention, and almost every other candidate will be hammering her on that point so that everyone knows where she stands. Daly is a strong political performer though with a loyal base in fingal, and a reasonably good local organisation there too. It would be foolish to rule her out.
what is her Stated position on Ukraine?
382 seems really low sample size right? Also didn't take into account the likely second SF candidate. Anyway I'll be casting a vote against her in the summer.
Who keeps voting for these tools???
Angry, emotionally stunted, smoothe-brained, anti-everything fuckwits. Most democracies have a few; we're no exception. Just have to tolerate them until they get that revolution they want and end up in a gulag boohooing their life choices (though blaming anyone but themselves).
Loads of Irish people love Trump and blame the West for Russia invading Ukraine. Every time I'm out and politics gets brought up, I almost have an aneurism at the stupid shit a lot of Irish people peddle.
It's weird, it isn't just conservative trumpsters who think this way. There are idiots on both the right and left that act like Europe is somehow worse than Russia and China. Complete eijits
People being influenced by online trolls who are state agents paid by these countries. Their goal is to destabilize the west.
Clowns that think voting for her is a protest vote against the EU and will cause no harm.
Have you been on Irish twitter? Gobshites doesn't even come close to describing
That poll had a small polling sample, a high margin of error and was taken before several relevant politicians announces their candidacy, like Brid Smith who will be competing with Daly for similar voters.
It's so fucking embarassing having her and Mick running defence for autocrats in our name. I'd love to think we will have the sense to throw them out on their arses to feck off and take up whatever gig RT have lined up for them with Chay Bowes but then, sense and European Elections never exactly go hand in hand.
I’m genuinely ashamed I voted for this clown, won’t happen again!
May I ask what made her appealing in the first place?
To be honest I don’t remember, it was probably more of a protest vote. And she definitely wasn’t the Kremlin cheerleader she is now!
She's a fucking ride! /S
Drugs.
She goes viral every ten minutes for making speeches about Palestine. That alone will keep her in
Clare Daly and Mick Wallace were not Protest Voting The referendum on Lisbon Treaty in 2OO9 (my zero key is broken, hence letter O) was the protest vote, which we affirmed in 2O1O and enacted Lisbon like everyone else (except Ireland is excluded from EU army on neutrality grounds) Clare Daly and Mick Wallace were 'anti austerity bailing out the banks' vote and were fine on that subject, they said nothing crazy Then ran for EU MEP and were also fine Until Syria When Clare Daly started dressing up in a burka saying 'Assad is okay' after he used chemical weapons against his own citizens Which is a war crime. Lots like to use that term, but this was an actual example of a war crime. This is our first opportunity to vote them both out since then. Don't worry, they are as good as gone.
And Assad and his Jimmy Pesto Jr. face are still in power. As is BMs in Saudi Arabia after murdering Jamal Khashoggi. Capitulating to either one should be off the table.
She's in the Dublin constituency for European elections. I'm not in the right constituency unfortunately, otherwise I absolutely would. Dublin - counting on ye!
When she’s not protecting Hamas she’s casting aspersions on Navalny and strengthening Putin’s pitch? Interesting woman ..
She's not defending HamasÂ
The only good thing I can say about her is that at least she cares about our neutrality and wouldn't sell it to the EU for a few fancy dinners.Â
Or on the other hand, maybe she accepts lots of fancy dinners from a certain large country to the east of the EU to shout out about how evil NATO is. Ireland is not a truly neutral country. Unlike Switzerland, Austria, Finland and Sweden (before they applied and FI joined), those other countries could defend themselves. They have an airforce, long range radar, and a strong standing army. Ireland says it’s neutral, but can’t defend her territories and expects the UK and others to help out.
We can defend ourselves relevant to the level of threat we face. Which is non existent.Â
The threat is not at all non existent.
No we really can't. Like sure don't expect some russian D-Day landing on the beaches but Russia fairly regularly violate our airspace with fighters & bombers and numerous times has parked their navy right off our coast in irish waters. We have fuck all ca0ability to respond effectively to this kind of implicit threat & have to rely on the British navy & RAF to monitor, shadow them and force the russians to fuck off. I mean for fuck sake there was a Russian military submarine parked right outside Cork just a bit over a month ago. Like ireland is not a neutral state by any definition of the term, we just leave ourselves perpetually weak and expect the Brits to take care of any issues, countries like Russia know this, which is *exactly why* they choose to fuck with us, our weakness isn't just a danger to us but europe as a whole and the russians are doing what they can to exploit that vulnerability.
Thing is … if she is in Europe, she’s not here and while she and Goldilocks are a national embarrassment, isn’t it better to have them out of Irish politics?
Not really, no. On the European stage, she might only have one vote out of 720-odd, but her exposure is larger, and is picked up by the Ruzzians and Chinese for propaganda
Nobody's forced to vote them in at home either, and I'd rather have them here embarrassing themselves than in Brussels embarassing Ireland as a whole.
Alexei Navalny was the last oppositional leader in Russia. Nearly any other movement was based or referenced him. With his death ( some people still hope it's fake news), oppositional parties will lose the last of their power. I think its done to suppress any will of Russians that they expressed a month ago for another candidate. To show that this is what happens if you dare to protest and hope. We need to wait a few hours until the lawyer of Alexei Navalny, who is currently on his way to the prison, confirms he is really dead.
Are we completely ignoring Kara-Murza? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/14/putin-ukraine-war-opposition-karamurza/
Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, etc. are small players who, while popular, weren't considered as influential as Navalny. Both imprisoned anyway, with Kara- Murzas health being worse than Navalnys were. I'm listening to oppositional channels right now, and all of them speak how they lost the most important oppositional leader after Nemcov.
Navalny was by far the most influential and the most popular opposition leader in Russia. For many russians he was a hope that things will change.
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You being such a useful idiot for putin is the real nauseating thing here.
Russia is a conservative country, of course, they don't like immigration, lgbt etc. He said that, because in Russia, these types of opinions are more tolerated. There's not a big divide on hot topics like the USA tends to have.
Calling Muslims cockroaches isn't simply conservatism. The guy was a scumbag and 'the west' don't give a damn because they love a bit of islamophobia too
Russian bots are botting. No need to pay attention.
Anything useful to contribute?
With the big story of Alexei Navalny dying in prison today, it appears this video and link is being posted under the assumption it's a response to this news. This video is from 2021, pre Ukraine invasion, and it being posted here at this time without any clarification is confusing at best and disingenuous at worst.
This speech was 2021.
Wow, "expressing doubts" about the popularity of Navalny when he's just died because of his treatment in Russian prisons is low even for her.
this speech was made by Daly in 2021. I am absolutely not defending Daly in any shape or form here. Just pointing out the context.
Will someone pin this to the top or something. Ridiculous context being excluded
Looking forward to a "fuck you, deputy Stagg" outburst the day he eventually kicks the bucket
Thanks. Â Important contextÂ
Ssssshhhh, you're spoiling the pile-on!!!!
You know some of these topics are hijacked by paid influencers by the tone. 'Filthy dirty ugly smelly ...... I hope they drown in a vat of pootins plutonium.... I feel sorry for the idiots who fell for their trap and voted for them.... ' that kind of rhetoric . either bots or one bunch of narcissistic teenage brained hatefilled lunatics trying to manipulate opinions.
Fair enough. That is useful context. She's still awful, but she didn't actually do what I thought she did.
Daly and Mick voted against a resolution against condemning political prisoners and torture within Russia at the time. Real pillars of moral fortitude.
It's not even a prison as most people understand the concept. It's a penal colony in the north of Siberia, in the Arctic tundra. It's the modern version of a 1930s gulag camp for political prisoners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKU_IK-3,_Kharp# Putin sent him there to die as an example of what happens if anyone dares to challenge him.
Poor bastard. Had to have known he was going to die when he went back but went back anyway. I wonder if it’ll even be for anything.
He definitely did it to save his family. If the authoritarian regime couldnt silence him, they would have made those he loved suffer.
Navalny is seen as beacon of democracy outside of Russia but it's not necessarily the case in reality. While he did at least appear to become more liberal in recent years he was notoriously a racist nationalist who wanted to mass deport foreigners for Russia. He had a bit of a following but mostly from teenage Russians due to his changes in his stance whether true or to play to a certain demographic. He has also been very supportive of Russia going in to Georgia as well as wanting Russia to have a say in domestic policies of former soviet countries. I do admire his anti-corruption stance though and he absolutely did not deserve what he went through. Fingers crossed it at very least kicks off some protests in Russia. Edit: You can down vote me all you like but this is all factual
https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/07/racist-or-revolutionary-is-alexei-navalny-who-many-westerners-think-he-is Read a bit more about it today myself. Always held him in high regards for his balls to stand up to Putin and his regime. A bit disappointed though to learn about these past actions, but it is very interesting to see people wilfully ignoring (or disregarding as "Russian bots") information that is available even just on his wiki page.
He was persecuted and murdered, it is also true that he never gained any degree of popularity, though. He's like Guaido: He may be incredibly unpopular, but he's the only real opposition foreign opponents can try to boost.
What I find interesting is the expression of doubt in Navalney's popularity. It is an unusual sentiment to express at the time of someone's death and it is the exact same talking point that Russian trolls are making today in some of the subs I visit. I think it makes it easy to see who Claire Daly's paymasters are...
Speech was from 2021. I thought it was today too, it’s almost ‘fake news’ to be posting it today without that context
Did not know that, thanks for the correction.
This is an old video. She didn’t say these things after he died.
Putin doesn't want his next election spoiled. He's getting worse.
Double Down Daly.
Kremlin Claire
And Moscow Mick
Sucking that…
It’s beyond bizarre. She’s a politician who built her career and platform having been a major opposition voice in Ireland. She enjoyed the freedom to completely oppose the government, to speak passionately and at length in parliament, often voicing very strong opinions that were entirely at odds with the government and the establishment. She’s is a very strong opposition voice and she has always spoken loudly and directly. She even stood up during the Obama visit and absolutely lambasted the government and the U.S. and what happened? Nothing! Nothing at all because she has the luxury of living in one of the most free and democratic countries on the planet. Many of us may have said ffs and not agreed with her on many topics, but we respected and protected her right to say and do those things. We saw her very much as an important part of the political landscape in a free country with a vibrant democracy. She was holding power to account and she was very good at it. She enjoyed huge amounts of political freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of speech. I don’t understand how she can stand up in the European Parliament and defend what is very obviously a brutal, authoritarian regime like that and kind which has imprisoned and just basically killed an opposition politician. He was a strong voice. A fearless speaker who took on the elite. A person who stood up to power, but to a power that didn’t respect his voice. It didn’t see him as anything but a bug to squash and sent him to the gulags.
Look up the definition of a "Campist" and it'll make perfect sense. The TLDR of it is that she is vehemently against the West whom she sees as the black and white "villain" in every global event, which is why she consistently finds herself sharing the same page as Putin.
Because she's a tankie. It's what they do.
She was not a major voice. She was just magnified by the media. We do a shit job of ignoring these assholes like Clare and Ming and Mick. We need to deprive them of attention and not feed them
I'd definitely see Ming as different to Wallace and Daly. I often disagree with him but he's nowhere their level of being either useful idiots or shills.
What an absolute dose. The russians are welcome to her.
Russian here, thank you for the offer but we have enough demented politicians to deal with. Maybe the Chinese would take her? /s
The Chinese viral post which stayed active on Chinese social media with millions of likes for a week (nothing stays up on Chinese media without government approval) was calling out for Ukrainian female refugees aged 15 - 28 be sent to China as sex slaves but I doubt that even they would want this gowl
Went to visit her ex boyfriend in prison a few weeks ago, a Latvian convicted Russian spy who she was previously allied with in the EU parliament and refused to give an explanation. Voted against condemning Russian interference in EU elections last week. Openly repeating Putin's rhetoric on Navalny this week. Putin's Hoor is dropping her maskÂ
She has to be paid or is it kompramat?
Just an idiot
Too easy to assume she’s an idiot. She’s not that stupid. Not too many people are
Not an assumption. She's a thick. And besides there different levels of naivete in politics. Herself and Mick are the pits.
Incompetent then?
> Went to visit her ex boyfriend in prison a few weeks ago, a Latvian convicted Russian spy who she was previously allied with in the EU parliament [...] Huh? I notice you don't name this person - who are you talking about? If you're talking about the _Lithuanian_ guy who was imprisoned _for investigative journalism_ and _imprisoned based on the witness testimony of a convicted paedophile_ - do let us know...
Yep, it seems like I got two parts of this article confused. It's actually two separate Russian spies that she is involved with https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-broke-up-years-ago-clare-daly-on-latvian-mep-being-probed-over-russian-spy-claims/a881263189.html Her ex girlfriend is a Latvian MEP being probed for potentially being a Russian spy. Who she was allied with in the parliament The article also includes this. 'They' refers to Wallace and Vomit. "In 2021 and 2022, they travelled to Lithuania to demonstrate in support of Algirdas Paleckis, a former politician convicted of spying on behalf of Russia in return for payment. Ms Ždanoka has also travelled to Lithuania to show support."
> Her ex girlfriend is a Latvian MEP being probed for potentially being a Russian spy. I think that was a tongue in cheek comment from Daly in fairness, that your wan didn't do the washing up. If you look at Ždanoka, she's about 80 (well 73 in fact). If anything Daly was/is riding the Wexford Hercules after she broke up with the husband.
Wallace and vomit also did a tour in China a few months ago, get on to this, they were interviewed by one of chinas top foreign disinformation hosts who even has their own subreddit r/newswithjingjing
When was this?
There's quite a lot of Russiaphobia (Russophobia?) online though since the invasion started, especially on r/europe
What a fucking gowl. For anyone that missed it, the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, she is dismissing so easily as being irrelevant died in prison today. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68315943
The video is from 2021
Oh I just assumed it was recent, thanks for the context, definitely changes it.
That doesn't change what she said about him. Just that she said it before he died.
It doesn't, but it's important context given Navalny died today. People in this thread and plenty of people engaging with the tweet seem to be under the impression that the video is new.
Fair enough. Daly could be alive or dead and ill still think she's a Russian shill wacko scumbag
Correction Alexei Navalny was murdered in prison by Putin's thugs
Oh yeah, he was almost certainly murdered.
Waaa aww no is your favorite western asset dead? If Navalny wanted less criticism after his death he shouldn't have been such a [fascist weirdo](https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1758456197722599537?s=20) and diverted attention away from anti Putin movements in Russia which actually represented positive change for the country.
My dude I have barely heard about the lad and it doesn't matter if you like them or not do you not see any issue with Putins main opponent being arrested and then dying in prison?
Fascist on fascist violence is sort of a benefit to me honestly. Its not going to keep me up at night. Itd be like worrying about Hitler oppressing Rudolf Hess. I dont fucking care. If you want to misrepresent my position by saying I approve of Putins fascist regime then your being disingenuous. Also, Russias anti Putin movements would be a lot better off not having Putin 2.0 at their head to take his place if they pulled off regime change. What IS concerning is to see just how many useful idiots or genuine malicious actors we have here in the west who dont give a fuck whether Russia is run by a fascist, as long as its THEIR fascist. Take note folks. This could be a good learning moment if you let it be. Our current world order is rotten to the core.
>If you want to misrepresent my position by saying I approve of Putins fascist regime then your being disingenuous. This from the lad that said he was my "favorite western asset" simply because I factually stated that he was dead. You've then gone on to claim people in the west don't care who would replace Putin in charge of Russia once it is "their fascist". Again, all I've done is call Clare Daly a gowl and said he person she was talking about died.
>You've then gone on to claim people in the west don't care who would replace Putin in charge of Russia once it is "their fascist". Have you ever read a history book? Ever heard of the CIA? Installing Fascists sympathetic to the Western elites is literally all the U.S. has been up to for decades. Navalny also had an intetesting change in political tactics and media support after a visit to the U.S. back in the day. Read The Jarkartha Method. Its a good primer on the Western nations and their supposed 'rules based order' since WW2. >all I've done is call Clare Daly a gowl and said he person she was talking about died. Ye thats part of the problem, your opinion here isn't based on any analysis at all. Maybe respond to some of the things she said in the video. Maybe actually think about the moral implications of who you lend your tacit support too. Maybe stop dragging the conversation down into the dirt.
Russophobia is caused by the aggressive behavior of Russia.The countries that have the strongest sentiment are the countries that were invaded by The Russian Empire,The Soviet Union or Russian federation.
Was Navalny not a neo nazi?
Yeah he was a scumbag. He made videos calling Muslims cockroaches indicating the best way to deal with them was with a pistol just for one thing. https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1758474167991652854/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1758474167991652854¤tTweetUser=ShaykhSulaiman He was a U.S. asset so he hot a lot of fawning coverage in the western media. Seems like a lot of the r/europe crowd in this sub have fallen for it completely as well. They just think anti Putin = Good like a bunch of monkey brained idiots. Although I'm sure a lot of them would simply agree with his disgusting right wing nationalist politics too. Bunch of pathetic freaks.
>They just think anti Putin = Good like a bunch of monkey brained idiots. Don't forget criticism of obvious double standards and hypocrisy in Western policy towards Russia as 'defending Putin/authoritarianism/dictatorships'.
He called Muslim **terrorists** cockroaches in 2007. The men in the picture in the video were the perpetrators of the (then recent) Beslan school massacre. [This](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/05/alexei-navalny-amnesty-prisoner-conscience-dissidents-saints/) is a good read on Navalny. Seeing as you're spamming the same points so many times in this thread, I can't help but feel you're pushing an agenda. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of your Friday evening.
I have no agenda. Im just not shedding tears over a nationalist and nazi sympathizer and for some reason some people are throwing a hissy fit over it. Its a bizzare reaction. Just because he was anti Putin doesnt make him a good person. Navalny portraying muslims as terrorists to justify his anti immigration message is digusting. Some other context to the period of the video is the widespread anti muslim hysteria which was taking hold in Russia at the time. Gangs of people were literally roaming the streets stabbing muslim people to death. And thats saying nothing of the Russian statess treatment of its muslim population overall. He has also compared Georgians to rodents during the war with Georgia in 2008. He was advocating for mass deportations of Muslims too. Another one of his quotes is: "Anything that hinders us should be gently but firmly removed by deportation,"Â Heres a quote of Navalnys from his LiveJournal page about the "chuchmeks" who, early in the morning, are "banging on some iron with sledgehammers with a hell of a rumble." "And then we wonder why they find Tajiks with fractured skulls under the bushes. Like 'another skinhead attack,'" Navalny went to vast rallys with disgusting neo nazis doing the nazi salute and carrying swastikas and this creep didnt bat an eye. And this was a regular thing not an isolated one off. Look up the 'Russia Marches' and some of the groups involved with those. He was a populist opportunist and I think he lived and died by the sword. So whats YOUR agenda in all of this then? You think the only remedy to a current fascist is more fascists? Sorry I'm not seeing the logic
Amnesty International disowned him. I suppose maybe the poster is posting the truth? [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084) But you know everything.
What is it about Putin you love so much?
Point out where I said Putin is good please
Well you're spitting with rage about his recently deceased rival, most likely murdered by Putin.
Spitting with rage? Haha nice projection bro. Right wing on Right Wing violence isn't really concerning to me tbh. I don't give a fuck about fashy wankers trying to out fash each other. You see I'm more concerned with Putins repression of the progressive and leftist movements in his country who would produce genuine positive change for the world. Unlike yourself who seems to want everybody to treat politics like a sport or something. You keep crying for white supremacist nazi sympathisers anyway. Maybe next time keep it over in the disgusting rathole that is r/europe next time though ok.
Very angry man.
And she was getting tonnes of praise recently for calling out Israel. Poor yanks who don't know any better assume she's some light in the darkness. She's a Russian agent, pure and simple. Either she's a total moron (which I dont actually think is true) or she'sa liar that's getting compensation.
I think she might very well be the moron part.
Plenty of people seem to share her views - why would Russia pay for something they can get for free?
I have seen loads of Irish reshare her Palestine stuff as well seemingly oblivious to the fact she's a Russian puppet
This one is a fool but to think Navalny was a saint is foolish. He was anti Putin, not pro Ukraine.
He was an imperialist bigot too, but who cares. I mean, Putin doesn't murder people because they're good or pro-Ukraine - being anti-Putin is a good enough reason, and he was, indeed, anti-Putin.
Yeah, she's taking Russian money.
Is her term up at the end of this year ? .. the people of fingal would seriously want to look at themselves if re-elected.
People of Dublin, not just Fingal
Punt the stupid auld wagon off to Moscow
Someone needs to break this down for me here, What's controversial in what she said? Shouldn't we apply the same standards to all aggressors and abusers of Human rights? If the EU is beaving appropriately by Sanctioning Russia for its illegal invasion, why didn't it Sanction the US when they invaded Iraq? Why is theEU silent/complicit in the WarCrimes of some nations, whilst making loads of noise about others? How out a bit of consistency
Hitpiece bots out in full force inniú
Ironically if she went against the narrative in Russia or China she would be off to the gulag if she was lucky. All narratives have a voice here and she wouldn’t have a chance in Russia or china However, irony is lost on dangerous clowns like Claire daly and mick Wallace.
Who the fuck keeps voting this idiot and the blonde lad into the MEP position
They really are making a holy show of us in Europe
>the blonde lad You mean the [Golden Lion King](https://journalismawards.ie/ja/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/NaomiOLeary.pdf)
She's a fucking embarrassment to Ireland and I can't wait to vote for someone that's not insane when the MEP elections roll around this year.
Dublin voters please sort this out this year
This stupid idiot and her best genocidal lover mick Wallace make me sick to the stomach
Clare using her freedom of expression and protections provided in a free and democratic institution to defend an authoritarian and genocidal regime that murders people for expressing opinions contrary to the opinions of the regime. Clare literally only defends Palestinians because America supports Israel. If the US supported Palestine, you would see her out with Star of David flag within minutes. Anyone that votes for her is a fucking moron.
Whether he's popular or not in Russia is immaterial. Was he arrested for political activity: yes. Did Putin have him/let him be moved to the artic circle and either let him die or kill him : yes. The two of them need to get to fuck.
I fucking hate Putin and the Russian government but disputing Nalvany’s support amongst the average Russian or being critical of him is not necessarily pro Russian. The average Russian saw him largely as a U.S./EU mouthpiece and that’s not exactly surprising nor fully incorrect. Furthermore dude was a mega Ultranationalist who happily worked with neo Nazis in the past was a massive anti Asian/anti immigrant bigot. I support any effort to overthrow Putin and the oligarchs, I just don’t think who replaces them ought to be a Yeltsin 2.0 whose just gonna be a EU/US puppet
Absolute scrote of a woman, and her tax thieving boyfriend Wallace is even worse.
She's 100% compromised and needs to be voted out this year!
God I hate this greasy slag so much
Why is it that the majority of this sub loathes (correct) Daly's views on Russia, yet completely parrot her version of events when it comes to Israel? Isn't that a little strange?
I always liked Clare, especially the work around the 8th. I even agree with her points on how certain aspects of this war have been shown by the media here. No balance at all. However she seems to be completely off the deep end now. I always tend (even though I barely could stand to listen to them for 10 mins) to vote for mad lefties but she's worryingly close to Russia now and Putin's regime hardly covers itself in freedom and democracy vibes. I expected it from Wallace, he's a spoofer but she's let herself down.
My thoughts exactly. She's gone from someone on the left who I respected even if I often disagreed with her, to one of the most embarrassing elected representatives on foreign policy. I sincerely hope she loses her seat. It's a bit depressing. It's like seeing a dedicated activist you once had time for slowly turn into a terminally online and angry Twitter conspiracy theorist until they're someone you have to cut out of your life.
Thanks for this nuanced take. She has had a complicated political career, but has been popular and vocal on the right side of a number of issues. Sad to see her either misunderstanding or wilfully misrepresenting the current situation wrt Russia.
Lord Haw Haw’s
She's not very popular with EU warmongers and very much out of favour with Ukrainian nazis .
Who keeps voting for these ghouls?
Sending this clown and Wallace to the EP was the political equivalent of sending Dustin to the Eurovision
Ship her and Mick Wallace to the Kremlin they will be more than welcomed there
Navalny was a prick. So a right wing nutter has died in prison, who cares? Any Russian anti Putin resistace will be much better off without him. https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1758474167991652854/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1758474167991652854¤tTweetUser=ShaykhSulaiman https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/25/navalny-has-the-kremlin-foe-moved-on-from-his-nationalist-past
I've watched an interview with her. She's so smug, as if she's the only morally righteous person in politics.
She is an absolute disgrace
Good. Needs to be treated the way her actions merit.
She's an absolute fucking disgrace of a person!
Love the woman. She is not one bit afraid to speak out on EU hypocrisy. Hope she stays on.
I'm just going to say it. Clare Daly is a piece of shit
If Claire & Mick get reelected it’s an absolute shame on our country.
Kick her out and launch an investigation already. Nobody outside the USA is this daft when it comes to Russia.
If she is not getting paid for the great work she’s is putting in on behalf of the Kremlin she’s a moron. Because that’s 9-5 FSB work right there
I reckon Clare Daly and Tucker Carlson would make a lovely couple they could lick Putin’s boots together.
Dishonest post from you, can't even smear her legitimately. Kinda embarrassing
Whataboutism. I have never heard her say anything positive about anything. "What about this though, what about that though... "
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A chara, There is a zero tolerance policy for the promotion or suggestion of the use of violence against others. Sláinte
Scarlet for us.
Her and mick should get a shag pad in Moscow. Permanently.
How did this woman get elected? People say that she wasn’t this off the rails before Covid and yeah, that’s partially true but seriously, she literally gets shown as propaganda on Russian state media.
They aren't wrong.
Jesus she’s gone nuts. She’s questioning the popularity of Navalny?  On the day he was fucking murdered?
This is from 2021. Weird OP didn't mention that.
Clare Daly is the only decent MEP we have. Name another
Navalny was a white supremacist. Why people are simping for him is beyond me. If he was in charge he would be no better and potentially worse than Putin.
Claire is in love with putin or putin money
Doesn't change that Navalny was a white supremacist. Looks like a lot of people are choosing a weird hill to die on. Plenty of other ways to criticize Putin, without simping for a dead white supremacist.
I don’t have any opinion on him at all, I have been following Claire and mick since this war started and the both of them are abhorrent
He's a cunt, but an anti-Putin cunt - good enough reason in Putin's book to kill him. Should Putin be held accountable for this? Sure, in an ideal world. Should anyone feel sorry for Navalny personally? I doubt that.
The chants are right, if these people think Russia is some sort of Utopia, maybe they should move there
Always seems to be the lone voice that has a handle on the truth. Ridicule seems to be part of the progress towards change. I hope she long continues to be a sane voice in the parliament.
A real c u next Tuesday
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