European Elections 2019

[Nocturnal Submission]

Another ambitious idea is for the Government to purchase or subsidise breathalysers for homes so drivers can ensure they are not over the limit when driving the next morning. In addition, he wants to give judges the opportunity to make compassionate rulings on drink drivers in some instances.

He said: ‘The Government could just buy 50,000 or 100,000 breathalysers and give them to homes so you can breathalyse yourself before you go out.’ While stressing that he is vehemently opposed to drink driving, he said he disagrees with ‘mandatory minimum’ drink-driving limits, which see anyone above these automatically disqualified from driving. ‘The judges should have some discretion,’ he said. ‘They offer a guide, which should be adhered to and in 95% of the cases it should be stuck to. But there should be some instances where the judge can make a compassionate decision.’

Don't some cars have breathalysers attached to the ignition, which prevents an over-the-limit driver starting the car?

[ursus arctos]

Yes, though my understanding is that they are primarily as part of sentencing for drink driving recidivists.

[Ginger Yellow]

Calling them breathalysers for homes sounds very weird. Why not just breathalysers, or personal breathalysers, or if you've got to get homes in there, home breathalysers?

[Diable Rouge]

Whatever the law is for the UK, European and local posters are legal in Ireland from tonight - thankfully, many town and city councils are banning them from urban centres, and confining them to suburbs.

http://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1120721134738190336

[Diable Rouge]

Calling them breathalysers for homes sounds very weird. Why not just breathalysers, or personal breathalysers, or if you've got to get homes in there, home breathalysers?

As LP Hartley didn't say, "Donegal is another country, they do things differently there".

[Duncan Gardner]

I was in the north of Ireland over the weekend, and I noticed a number of UKIP placards along roads around Ballymena and further north. Presumably they're having a go for the council elections, but what sort of vote will they get? And will they eat into the DUP's numbers?

UKIP have been a presence for a while in NI. Their recently retired leader David McNarry is never off the talkshows.

In the 2015 GE they beat SF, SDLP and TUV in Antrim East with 11%. They had a prominent poster board outside the RC Church near my Mum's house. I recommend a visit, although the kids might enjoy Carrick (Castle, Seaside, etc) more than E10

[anton pulisov]

Surely any votes for SF and SDLP in Antrim East are just accidental votes.

[Duncan Gardner]

Aye, there isnt a single Nationalist left in EA. Theyve all been eaten by those fat girls off Youtube- or possibly have emigrated to Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

It's important to remember that Peter Casey is a stupid, Nasty narcissistic cunt, who says just about anything that comes into his addled, low powered brain, in the hopes that it will gain him attention. Now that's one fucking migrant that needs to learn to integrate.

[Duncan Gardner]

so he can be like the 25% who voted for him as Pres?

[Diable Rouge]

so he can be like the 25% who voted for him as Pres?

Given most already vote for Healy-Rae, Lowry, Grealish, Fitzmaurice and Co, he already is like them.

[Diable Rouge]

http://twitter.com/ShamingDeValera/status/1121843036160495617

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

so he can be like the 25% who voted for him as Pres?

He had a go at the travellers and only got two thirds of the vote for keeping blasphemy in the constitution. that wasn't a great sign.

[Duncan Gardner]

The Conservative Candidate for Northern Ireland lives in my old manor...er Erith and Thamesmead

[Diable Rouge]

http://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1122128449026646018

Most of the unaffiliated are accounted for by Five Star and the Brexit Party.

[Diable Rouge]

Looks like no-deal then:

http://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1122177790701445121

[Lang Spoon]

Fuckin dicks. Fuckin racist island

[ursus arctos]

Why would European Election polls determine government policy at a time when UK polls are showing them getting trounced by Labour?

[Diable Rouge]

Why would European Election polls determine government policy at a time when UK polls are showing them getting trounced by Labour?

Tories get trounced in locals, Farage comes top (or joint-top) in Europeans, support leaches away in Westminster polls - it will all embolden Johnson, Rees-Mogg and the hard Brexiteers, making it impossible to pass the Withdrawal Agreement.

[ursus arctos]

I just don't see it, soz

[Diable Rouge]

CHUK surprisingly high in the latest Euro poll:

http://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1122445707921825792

[DCI Harry Batt]

Given the ridiculous hype they've been getting, I suppose it's no big wonder.

The shits.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Yes, they've had a fair bit of publicity lately. I'd expect them to drop back a bit. Then again, I must admit that I find that 10% of the electorate backing a party with such a vague platform is odd. But perhaps, for the purposes of the Euro-elections, they're effectively seen as the Anti-Brexit Party and are attracting support on that sole basis.

[DCI Harry Batt]

If today's reports about Labour's manifesto prove to be true, I might emigrate until after the election.

[Gerontophile]

Isn't that a slight tautology?