Crankycorner
Full Member
100%. I and other dismissed Blighe up until very recently but there’s no doubt he’s now a serious threat and the bookies have reflected that in their pricing. The rise of Independents in the polls is further proof of this.There was a piece in the Phoenix Magazine about Far Right candidates fund raising through various platforms, go fund me, buy me a coffee etc, and it hits on exactly what your saying in terms of the majority of the donations are through anonymous people and overseas donations, it's definitely very shady.
Could you imagine if one of his opponents on the left had a crowd funding drive full of anonymous donations.....Blighe would be straight on live to his echo chamber "this is the woke, NGO, communist, corrupt, lgbt, pro trans government trying to use there money to stop me from exposing the great replacement plantation taking place in our Sacred Soil of Ireland"...........obviously he wouldn't articulate that well, but ye all know what I mean.
I’ve said it here before. People only truly care about political corruption when it’s done by governments and coincides with economic difficulties for people. People are more than happy to vote for corrupt politicians as long as they aren’t FF or FG. Michael Lowry has never once lost his seat.