Stardust campaigner Antoinette Keegan has withdrawn her candidacy for the general election, saying on reflection that the positions of the National Party are incompatible with her own, and that it was ‘an error of judgement’ to accept their nomination to run in Dublin Fingal East
by lifeandtimes89
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Always read the fine print.
No gold for her.
Her reflection? The only thing that made her reconsider was the absolute backlash that spread like wildfire across social media when news broke about her standing for the Nazional Partei. That, and the number of friends and supporters who dropped her and were very public about doing so.
That’s a sensible decision.
Stardust campaigner realises that people that start fires are not good people
Shortest campaign run in history.
Antoinette fucked around and found out.
There’s absolutely no way she didn’t know what a nasty shower of racist fucks they are.
Fucking moron.
How thick is she
I did nazi that coming
She has lost a significant amount of respect and goodwill. She should have been aware of the type of individuals she was joining.
It is surprising that she ever engaged with them in the first place.
Nah fuck her. She showed her colours. She just assumed there would be more nazis than there actually is.
Now watch her run as an independent “concerned citizen”.
I can always admire when people admit they are wrong or made a mistake. I’m glad she is moving on from them
Good.
Christ, that’s some error of judgement
I’m going to phrase this poorly, but hopefully the sentiment will be clear – a lot of times the personality of a person who will take up a laudable cause is not alway the personality you would want in other walks of life. We need these people in society as they will go hell for leather for justice, when many might not be bothered or might baulk, but it doesn’t always follow that they don’t have feet of clay. I don’t know the lady at all, but she wouldn’t be the first person who was on the side of right on a specific issue close to their heart (and good for them) but moved into other ways of thinking.
(this is not that revelatory, I realise!)
“My sister Antoinette has decided to run in this general election because she’s sick and tired of the injustice Irish people have suffered and still suffering at the hands of these political parties ff fg Sinn Fein people before profit where Irish people are now second class citizens in their own country we will be canvassing in swords portmarnock and malahide anyone who lives there or has friends there please ask them to give her their vote she has been the voice of 48 young children for 43 years let her be your voice too 🇮🇪🇮🇪
#DublinLive”
Her brother is a racist and she’s a racist coward.
Well, at least she’s admitted it was a wrong choice and nipped it in the bud before going any further. I was shocked when I heard of her nomination and couldn’t fathom why she did not just go independent.
[https://www.thejournal.ie/stardust-survivor-antoinette-keegan-apologises-for-mistake-of-national-party-candidacy-6535851-Nov2024/](https://www.thejournal.ie/stardust-survivor-antoinette-keegan-apologises-for-mistake-of-national-party-candidacy-6535851-Nov2024/) I feel like her statement could be a lot stronger if she had actually not been aware they were Nazis in advance, if I accidentally joined the NP without knowing anything about them then found out I would be a lot less diplomatic about them
“I have realised that in hindsight, the principles I have long prided myself in are incompatible with the political party to which I had been nominated” – setting things on fire is incompatible with my principles that things shouldn’t be on fire
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