Are you one of the 233 independent/smaller party candidates who have chosen to run in the General Election?
Feeling excluded by the national broadcaster? Don’t worry one of your kind has taken to the Youtube to design you a video template so that you can ‘take back the country’.
Love the bit about saving the hospital.
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Given the level of criticism that Enda received for not appearing at the TV3debate on the Fine Fael Facebook Fan page (much of which dissappeared!) it’s no surprise they give Enda’s page a rest.
Psst to James and Jim I know what you are going to say and I’m not anti FG – I’m anti bad online engagement. Thought I’d save you the trouble!
So much political jargon describing the performance and practice of politics and the conduct of a campaign and an election about at the moment and a lot of it is inaccessible.
The National Adult Literacy Agency has produced a Plain English Guide to Political terms which cuts through the rubbish and provides definitions to 400 political terms. It was originally produced in 2006 and has been reissued. Add to this the Plain English Guide to Financial Terms that was published two years ago and you might make it through Tonight with Vincent Browne or Prime Time (Though they may need to issue a guide to life under the IMF to get us through the bondholders and substantiation)
Both publications are free to download and I recommend all candidates and pundits to read them and realise that much of their language is inaccessible and people feel excluded from the process and less likely to vote if they don’t understand.
Mannix Flynn is an independent candidate running the Dublin South East constituency.
Mannix has other videos on his site but this one from Balcony TV shows the actor at work and well who can resist a bit of candidate rap!
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Kevin Humphreys is a candidate for the Labour Party in Dubin South East.
An Introduction to Kevin Humphreys from Kevin Humphreys on Vimeo.
Office – Check, Family Photo – Check. No beach walking but sequel in Sandymount near incinerator site may be expected! Actually we don’t have enough beach walking videos this campaign!
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