Philip Dywer in the count centre with NP leader and #dbsbyelection candidate Justin Barrett.
An abysmal count so far and only a matter of time before Dywer and the Dublin core push to oust Barrett. Clearly the cleverer of the pair, Dywer took all the limelight in the campaign.
18 mths Covid-19
Multiple street demos
10,000's of leaflet drops
100's of hours creating & promoting social media content
Big canvas teams
And Barrett's full-time party wage from members subs.
Yet NP vote is *down 75%* on last general election.
A sign of the times as Dolores Cahill has a blazing row with both Barrett and likely NP leadership challenger Philip Dywer. Cahill remonstrated with both men, who encourage not wearing masks, for putting on masks themselves.
Principles and integrity not a big thing for all 3.
Justin Barret's actual vote percentage was 0.6688. The NP's 0.7% result was rounded up for the spreadsheet.
Which is actually closer to 0.65 than 0.7.
This might seem like a trivial splitting of hairs, but small things matter in small votes this size.
The National Party's vote compared with the number of spoil votes.
NP votes. 0.7%
Spoilt votes 0.6%
Please do RT from this thread. Tweets are most definitely intended to show how unwanted the politics of hate are in our country. Demoralise them. #DBS21 #Rightsofar
Working-class communities totally rejected the politics of hate and fear of the NP. Tallies show their abysmal smattering came from various economic backgrounds.
Max respect to all who worked countering their message and their organising over this campaign.
No pasarán!
A reminder, if you need it, that the NP is much closer to a street gang than a political organisation.
Justin Barrett have build a cult filled with hards lad who job is to be at his beck and call
Just another political organisation in the marketplace of ideas?
In a day that couldn't get much worse for the far-right in Ireland, its..eh..getting much worse.
Irish Freedom Party, the astroturf organisation headed by Hermann Kelly, have just published a statement denouncing Dolores Cahill as a grifter.
This is ironic coming from Kelly.
OK really struggling to keep up with all the far-right F's today.
G*mma O Doherty, who has probably has a higher number of court appearances than Justin Barrett got votes, has been ordered remove defamatory videos.
O Doherty and Water both “devoid of substance”
The fash will be crying into their protein shakes tonight wondering why working class communities rejected them.
But imagine.
What do you think this image could look like if they got 5%? 10%?
This is why you grind them down when they are small.
Make no apologies against hate
They really are delusional.
This is the head of the NP youth wing. Written like a cult member. Every defeat is just another sign of future victory.
Also worth noting that Dolores Cahill outburst at the polls was probably rooted in her anger about losing control of her Telegram chat group.
It has over 20000 members.
And an rogue admin aligned to Ben Gilroy hijacked it earlier this week
"Nothing stands in our way of victory, except defeat"
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As the ICJ case is today brought by South Africa against Israel for its genocide in Gaza, it feels kinda personally and politically relevant to the small part of Ireland I grew up in.
Two names.
Majella O'Hare and
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh
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Majella O'Hare was 12 years old, when she was shot in the back and murdered by a British paratrooper as she walked to confession in the church next to St Malachy's primary school.
The paras tried to blame the IRA, and threatened and intimidate those who went to aid Majella
Twitter seems to have dropped the rest of the entire thread, I'll come back to it later
Hassling and intimidating journalists and working crew is an increasing part of far right tactics. It's not accidental but deliberate and planned. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Getting solid information that neo nazi Sam Brittenden from New Zealand is intending to come to Ireland to join far-right religious cult SSPX Resistance based in West Cork.
This neo nazi should not be allowed into the country.
And the SSPX Resistance cult need to be broken up
Neonazi Sam is a member of Action Zealandia, an accelerationist group in New Zealand that has plotted white nationalist terrorism.
Again Brittenden should be refused entry into Ireland.
Brittenden was arrested after threats were made to mosques in Christchurch, previously targetted by white supremacist Brenton Harrison Tarrant killing 51 people. Threats were made at the one year anniversary of that massacre.
"Far-right thugs, templar twats, cocaine dealers, violent ex-cons with gangland connections, conspiracy theorists, and political wannabes all turn up for these men-only walks organised by Dwyer"