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George Lee: A Courageous Dissenter

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You know, maybe it is time that constituency clinics be left to the hired-help - the civil servants in the relevant departments. Maybe it is time to demand of our TD's that THEY get out and meet US for a change. To explain themselves and their actions to us first-hand and to seek our inputs.
Amen to that.
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Today's announcement makes me think back to Primetime a few weeks ago, when Lee and Wee Willie were in studio with Miriam O'Callaghan. Lee tried to make some points, and the idiot from Limerick behaved as normal, shouting down arguments and talking over everyone else. The look on Lee's face showed how unhappy he was to be in the situation, trying to have a debate with a prize gobsh1te.
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George Lee resigned his position at RTE to enter politics .That was an act of courage.

George Lee resigned as a TD and from Fine Gael . That too is an act of courage. He is acknowledging that he made a mistake. In Irish society admitting that you made a mistake is almost unique.

Already the howling critics are slavering and snapping.

George Lee I have never met you -- you have set a standard of honesty in Irish Politics-- I thank you.
George Lee as a staff member of RTE took leave of absence with a guaranteed job if he returned within twelve months, hardly that courageous.
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A pompous git who wanted the limelight, I wonder how many constituency clinics he held, I wonder if it has entered his mind that he will leave the people he was supposed to speak for under represented.
Constituency clinics are the arterio-sclerosis of Irish politics. A total and complete waste of f***ing time
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it takes cajones to be a dissenter.
No, it takes real cajones to knuckle down and do the hard, unglamorous work for the long-term benefit of your constituents and your country. Going crying to the media because others don't think you are as amazingly awesome as you think you are does not take cajones
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You know, maybe it is time that constituency clinics be left to the hired-help - the civil servants in the relevant departments. Maybe it is time to demand of our TD's that THEY get out and meet US for a change. To explain themselves and their actions to us first-hand and to seek our inputs.
It's problematic. I firmly believe GL wanted to serve his country. But Fine Gael parked the newbie out of petty politics - they should have had him on every tv, radio broadcast over the past 9 months, he could have handed FF their power-bloated asses back to them.
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It's problematic. I firmly believe GL wanted to serve his country. But Fine Gael parked the newbie out of petty politics - they should have had him on every tv, radio broadcast over the past 9 months, he could have handed FF their power-bloated asses back to them.
given that he said tonight with Brian dobson that the last thing he wanted was to be on every TV,radio broadcast and that FG were "using" him like that.................?

Something here is just not weighing up for me..............after seeing the interview on the 6 news .....there is more to this than meets the eye thats for sure... it is personal.
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It's problematic. I firmly believe GL wanted to serve his country. But Fine Gael parked the newbie out of petty politics - they should have had him on every tv, radio broadcast over the past 9 months, he could have handed FF their power-bloated asses back to them.
He did appear on many TV programmes and unfortunately he didn't hand FF their power-bloated asses back to them, he performed reasonably well but never delivered a killer soundbite or wiped the floor with any Government representative.
It's one thing to deliver a piece to camera with no interruptions, having prepared and honed your words before hand and completely different to be a participant in a debate "moderated" by the likes of Vincent Browne, etc.
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maybe the realised chap he was swimming in a sea of fools
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Vote for me. I'll give it 6 months, at least, honest I will, missus!

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