Libertas misinformation from the uk wing of the party

Ok I never tried this before and this was a fairly rushed affair. I was dogged around by libertas ads today and while on facebook I decided to leave a sternly worded rant at their page due to how annoying those flash ads are when I discovered this gem of a news article. I dug a bit into it and found a series of misinformation by libertas uk in their report that i felt I must respond.

So instead of a sternly worded rant on their page, you get a badly mumbled exploration of libertas antics.

I will hopefully update facts with annotations after some sleep.

Until then the sources for each of my points:

Libertas facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Libertas/7454491540

libertas uk: http://www.libertas.eu/uk/british-meps-vote-themselves-a-27-payrise

Daily mail report http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170129/Pay-deal-MEPs-20-cent--13-000...

2004-2009 review: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/thematic_note_page/008-46723-019-01...


EDIT: I have no idea why this video has been embedded on the libertas uk blog as part of *libertas tv* but thank you, any chance of a comment on this issue? But I would perfer if I wasnt considered part of *libertas tv*

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• European Union
• Libertas
• lies
• Election
• 2009
• Parliament
• uk
• misinformation
• declan ganley
• facebook

[francieszetecs]

This video is sad, We all know yer afraid of ganley the people of ireland are not stupid lads, Yer wasting your time. Ireland will stick with a No Vote. WE HAVE BRAINS SO WHO EVER MADE THIS VIDEO YOU NEED TO WAKE UP.

[connla]

THis video was about the UK wing of the libertas company, It had very little to do with the Irish wing of the company.

I like how you keep telling people to wake up, but you never discuss facts or sources or anything concrete. Instead you call us sheep, that we are afraid and that we are being misled by the media. Though I didnt rely on the media, I went and got the original documents, I used the media as a comparison only to how badly libertas lied in that article.

[rudolf14]

Lisbon Treaty would make the situation even worse, leaving countries no voice and independence in Europe, because everything would be done in the EU parliament, or even worse - behind their close doors. And also, about your last comment on the vid - as far as I saw Libertas had around 100k views every day, so they actually might be the most viewed political website...

[connla]

check out the alexa website and you will see that libertas is outranked by the CDU, conserative and european union websites.

And under Ganley's vision of europe the independence of individual nations is very much in danger.

[irish100000]

delerious, deficit, deficient, Silence was a wonderful sound.

Its bad to stand there looking like a fool.

Worse to open ones mouth and remove all doubt!!!

[connla]

i write up film reviews etc over at boards an irish discussion website, I never really thought of doing it here in youtube.

[RikiBombastic]

Understand that... because they are really annoying. But I wish you could put up some film reviews, ranging from the good to the bad to the damn ugly!

[connla]

Hey Rik, this was a very sudden video, So technically its quite badly made and the recording was without script. Also I edited on my pc using after effects (which is not meant for quick edits like the above but visual effects) hence the few badly timed fades.

On the topic, I am hoping to do one or two on bigger topics for discussion, just this one really pissed me off.

[RikiBombastic]

Connla, come on you can produce something better than this. All this research for a stupid party. Spend your time more wisely mate! I do like the logo tho + it's good to hear your voice! Although its a bit blabberish! Why not something more interesting, need of European Union, why Ireland didn't sign up for the constitution etc. Or the war in Afghanistan... etc.