Ultime notizie: Sean Kelly afferma di essere stato “rapito da Fine Gael” durante il processo di candidatura

How hard did they shaft you Sean? 

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The precedent has been set

From now on we’re going to hear far more ” “skepticism” about the legitimacy of our elections

It won’t be healthy “let’s genuinely try keep our democracy valid” it’ll be “I didn’t get my way so I’ll undermine the whole thing”

He wasn’t, and if he thinks the selection process is unfair he’s never once brought that up in his decades with fine gael. Fine Gael have shafted most of us at one point or another but not Sean Kelly

This fella failed to get nominated in two attempts from his own party, losing out to a woman who voted to let human beings drown and a woman married to a member of the orange order.

Look inwards Seánín.

The Fine Gael parliamentary party were falling over themselves to come out and endorse Heather Humphreys once she announced. It was clearly a strategy by FG leadership to show overwhelming support for Heather. They did the same for Simon Harris when he announced he wanted to be leader.
It’s all very ‘coronation’ style stuff.

It essentially slammed shut the door to Seán Kelly having any chance as he needed PP endorsements to contest. Seán should have been more organised and got out of the traps earlier, but he clearly was on the backfoot from the get-go.

My guess is that FG leadership felt they needed a quick candidate, Mairead was gone, so let’s move on asap and get everyone behind Heather.
They probably felt that having a selection convention would be damaging & split the party. Plus take too long.

Some probably think back to 2011 when the FG membership (under different rules) selected the woeful Gay Mitchell over the leadership preferred Pat Cox. So were keen to shut out the members who may have revolted.

Another suspicion I have is that some polling (if even internally) had been done a couple of months ago and Seán Kelly was found to have not polled well among Dublin voters, or at least worse than Heather (or Mairead whilst she still the presumed candidate).

Did he votr at EU level to continue arming those carrying out g£nocide?

Imagine being so shit your party thinks Heather Humphreys was a better bet and still having the neck to come out with this.

Shafted. Is that how the party rolls these days.

Have any of you spent any kind of significant professional time with Kelly?

I didn’t work for him in the EU parliament but I worked on a lot of the same committees and things he was on and I gotta tell you, he’s not the sharpest tool in the box.

The whole GAA presidency thing will only get you so far. He’d have been ripped apart in presidential debates.

I recall him being competent in very local agricultural issues but on pretty much everything else he never sounded like he knew what he was talking about.

I bet he loved it too

Nobody likes you Sean, stick to posting pics of over priced sandwiches in Dublin airport, even though we all know you claim for those

He would have been a better candidate than HH, but he absolutely was not shafted. He just lost.

Knifes are out, and it’s still a bank holiday