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SwordOfZippers asks: '
Do you think if Val asked the Mowl to help out in the campaign that Mowl would be able to give effective help?'
Unbeknownst to you lot, I've actually been championing Val Martin for a few months already. I contacted my mole in RTE (he works on the Katy Hannon Show) and linked him to Val's online antics from several weeks before he made his announcement to run. In private, I've discussed this with a number of posters (
none of whom are on Arsefield's) and they all know my viewpoint. I may not particularly like Val, I may even consider him a buffoon, a culchie through and through. But that doesn't change the fact that he could be a very valuable tool for the independent and nationalist runners.
I've campaigned for others far less aware or clued in than Val, and I helped them secure votes in the hopes of helping Ballyfermot and her people along. But these days are different: I'm not only concerned about Ballyer, but also about the whole country. You guys are deep, deep, deep in the shit and there's no light on your horizon either. The country's finances are in the hands of un-elected full-timers and the entire administration is top-heavy and cannot be sustained in the longer term. The model of (say) the HSE is a similar model to the national model. Keep throwing money at it, it'll eventually cop itself on.
But this doesn't change the fact that Ireland is a fake: you may look rich, the world may think you're living first class lives, but that's only on paper and the giant corporations know better: they can fling even more money around or they can leave, it's all the same to them. Look at the last budget and the Apple Tax grushee and tell me that FF/FG aren't still trying to blindside you? They're already vying for first dibs at being Taoiseach. At the same time they're already trying to distance themselves from each other? They want you to believe they have the answers. That they're distinct from each other when in fact they're inbred kissing cousins. They're both currently (
and as one) cozying up to Labour and at the same time trying to dismiss the Greens. These are the same tired-out old games as ever, and if you fall for them then you deserve everything you get.
So do I think Val can change things?
No, not really - but I do think he could light a fire under their asses. Same as I said to everyone in Ballyer over the last ten years: vote for Sinn Fein, not because you like them or trust them but rather that they can throw a big fucking spanner into the works and destroy the entire pyramid and bring it to its knees (whether by accident or design) so that there's no other option than to begin again from scratch. Even if it only happens by accident. Yes, it'll be hard. Yes, it'll be complicated and of course it's going to take time. But change isn't coming from within: therefore the only place it can come from is without. So after telling the ten thousand souls who follow me to give Sinn Fein a shot, I then nonetheless championed for the local National Party member, Serina Irvine, Ballyfermot Upper. And she did well because of it. Again: I didn't promote her because I think she's good or clued in; quite the opposite. Like Sinn Fein, she might well fuck things up enough that a clean-out and restart is warranted.
I support
no party, definitely
NOT Sinn Fein as Val would have you believe. The simple truth is, O'Snodaigh despises me, Brid Smith always cold-shouldered me. Cllr Hazel De Nortúin likes me, and Serina Irvine remains grateful even though she retired. I'm an old friend of Mannix Flynn. Besides:
I have no vote. As far as I'm concerned, there isn't a straight shooter in any party, independent, or otherwise. What I'd like to see is what everyone else to see: clear the boards, shut it down, begin again. Reduce the house membership of over 170 members to less than half that. There are too many chiefs and not enough indians. The money is all upstairs, you lot are locked in the basement. You are not the concern of your puppet government: they answer to powers higher than Ireland or the Irish people. They don't really give a fuck about the national debt - because it keeps them in a job. For life.
Now that you've seen every party leader out shaking hands and singing songs with the rabble over the last days, you're already feeling charmed, right?
Not me: I find it appalling that they think campaigning the grannies in the afternoon tea shops and culchies in the farming supplies depots, on the Luas and on the street: not Grafton Street, not Wicklow Street, nor around St Stephen's Green. They already have that middle class voting section covered. Instead they hang around Moore Street, the GPO, they talk about Irish heroes and Irish history. They sing along with the Irish songs, big shit-eating grins on their chops. But you know as well as I do that as soon as their seat is secured, Moore Street will be torn down and rebuilt as apartment blocks stuffed full of young male immigrants. Erasing your ancient history for future profit. That's their game and they play it their own way.
So, if he asked me, I would give him a shot on the BBBB. I'd introduce him as the man he is and the mission he's on. Because I admire the old goat for it, even if he is a laughing stock. Because his heart and his determination are all in the right place. Yes, he's a country bumpkin that the Dubliners will laugh at. Yes, he's a buffoon too. But that never stopped the likes of Michael Mansergh, Justin Barrett, or even Gerard Mannix Flynn from taking their chances. I want to see change, so does Val, and so do you lot. The Irish blogging community has had few actual politicians on any of their sites. I can count one or two off the top of my head. Val Martin is the only current blogger actually willing to get up off his arse.
The rest of you are useless pundits, after the fact type mouth-pieces.
But you have the vote, and you can influence a few people if you go about it the right way.
I have the respect of the folks in Dublin 10: they know my family, they know my siblings, they know me.
I can help Val as I helped Mrs Irvine, because change is vital, absolutely necessary, and you're not going to get it with the two party state running things.
Not with Labour added, and definitely NOT with the Greens either - those planks need seeping and straightening out.
The Nationalist parties are too extreme, little Hitlers like Barrett with his Nazi uniform doesn't help matters either. Same with Reynolds, the gold bars, the slagging and firing and dividing the party in two. The confirmation suit and the noose in one hand, the megaphone in the other. Independents are little better: they're totally disorganized, there's no clear strategy or planning, only shouting and roaring. Y'all need to do much better than this in the short time available. Hence my willingness to put Val in the spotlight with the Ballyer folks. I can post his (relevant and concise) video(s) to the page and let the 185,000 residents of Dublin 10 (10,000+ of whom subscribe to me) check him out and talk him up. Why not? It's not about me, it's not strictly about Val either. It's about Ireland and her future, and that comes before any of the bullshit pea-shooting we all indulge ourselves in every passing day.
But he has to do it on my terms. He can have the questions in advance if he wants to prepare himself for it. I can also talk to my man in RTE who already knows Val's name and his online activities.
You twats think you're on the ball.
You're not - for all your yap you achieve precisely nothing.
I get results because I can speak the working class man's language better than any of you.
Which is why 10,000+ authentic Dubliners subscribe to me.
You lot can only read each other - but you have no power, no influence, and zero purpose.
But I do.
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Saul Bucket??
is up and it already - and in Ireland, it's still only 0730.
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