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Thread: Dublin Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa to step down in February

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    I hope to participate in efforts to develop and promote alternative policy responses to Europe-wide austerity economics, the deepening of EU democracy and the social market economy,
    From the post by DC. Does he think Europe is on the wrong track here?
    "What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass". Lord Melborne, on Catholic emancipation in Ireland

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Cochrane View Post
    I'm wondering if it had anything to do with this. Odd timing if not.
    Feck he is 71?
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    Proinsias, the biggest flip flopping self serving careerist gombeen to suckle from the Brussels cash cow in recent years, good riddance.
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    He will have a couple of nice pesnions to retire on. Cardiff needs to send him a thank you card if he hasn't already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by redhead101 View Post
    She was selected as first substitute by the Labour Party in a democratic process, March 2009, and as such, her name democratically went before the people in the European election in June 2009.
    Selected by who?

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Cochrane View Post
    I'm wondering if it had anything to do with this. Odd timing if not.
    One would imagine so, when you read between the lines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sister Mercedes View Post
    Selected by who?
    Selected by the same people who selected PDR to be the candidate and replacing him in accordance with the law of the land.

    Congratulations Emer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Cochrane View Post
    I'm wondering if it had anything to do with this. Odd timing if not.
    Poor man. Regardless of anything else, this sounds like pretty worrying for the family.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IrishTom View Post
    Proinsias, the biggest flip flopping self serving careerist gombeen to suckle from the Brussels cash cow in recent years, good riddance.
    Is this the Ffffffrrank Rrrross of another era in the annals of Baile Munna?
    The logic-free zone that is Irish politics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cllr View Post
    Selected by the same people who selected PDR to be the candidate and replacing him in accordance with the law of the land.

    Congratulations Emer.
    I think the replacement list system just reinforces the democratic deficit which is prevalent across the EU.

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