2023 The arrival of the far right

I perhaps worded my above remarks poorly. There have been numerous dire predictions of the possibility of a far right emerging in Ireland like other European states. Normally this is a device to shut down dissent by state funded "independent" media commentators. We saw this during the Covid crackdown on any dissent from the government line at any given time. Similarly if you maintain traditional views on marriage or gender you are now far right.

Last year outrageous predictions of up to 200,000 refugees coming to Ireland were widely floated in the media . Between 2022 and this year it is estimated we will see up to 180,000 refugee/asylum seekers arrive so not far off the original guesses.


The largely working class revolts and protests do appear to me to be largely locally organised at grass roots . One ex Sinn Fein activist is organising protests in the East Wall area of Dublin. The National Party and Irish Freedom Party are involved to the extent they are jumping onto a protest issue caused by put of touch idiotic government policies. Whether they benefit electorally is anyone's guess.

Polls indicate around 55% of people are unhappy at open borders policies. Most Sinn Fein supporters (61%) object. This issue could tear Sinn Fein apart. "Brits out everyone else in" is utterly juvenile insanity. An Irish Ireland movement cannot preside over the deliberate social destruction of the historical Irish people in the name of diversity and inclusion.

An uncomprehending out of touch media and political class has been taken by surprise by these protests and are repeating to bleat about the far right and insult all those who express any concern about open border policies. If an Irish far right does energe they will have created it.

that's a great post -- we have no far right in Ireland .
 we do have a collection of very independent voices  of  unremarkable ability who do not  associate together as far as I can tell .
  the only time our media pray is when they dream of the bringing into existence of a far right to try and justify their presstution.
any child with a phone can look up the F THE EU speech by Victoria Nuland when picking the  present  American owned  and funded  government of the Ukraine  .
  and her admission on the BBC 7/2/2014  the  content /speech/phone call  was real --and the comment  later by Angela Merkle that this was totally unacceptable ,
RTE/ IRISH TIMES  will never refer to this   as the American Ukrainian  government which has banned the Christian church and all opposition and media in the Ukraine  and which is funded to the tune of 100 billion of poor peoples money   from the USA   and which has the nuclear clock at 90seconds to midnight  for nuclear war in OUR europe .
the only media organisation which allowed Enoch Burke to speak and give his views on camera was strangely the Independent  newspaper who had to hire video people to do this , nobody else would allow it.
we live in a   fascist media dominated country   which is now anti christian and has adopted the george soros philosophy  of just society and will never  allow a comment on his admission that he has 227   MEP   ""friends""  in the  EU parliament .
our refugee policy is pure soros and many other policies are foreign to us but nobody will allow a discussion  and therefore you get protests by people who cannot afford more than the loan of somebody's scratchy and weak  chinese megaphone and take turns  to shout the first  mad thing that comes into their head .
i would not call that  the far right   but dream on   irish media .

With the utmost respect to Cato, one thing that really grates me is when I see the media try to create some sort of compromised narrative in which they give a soft agreement that not everything is perfect concerning immigration/borders (which they will never follow up on after this lips service), but simultaneously the people protesting are "far-right agitators" high-jacking the "genuine concerns" of "ordinary people".
Has it occurred to anyone that the concerned people and "agitators" are one in the same? Or would it be too humanising to suggest anything other than the far-right are a group that popped out of the ground for the sole purpose of causing strife? And really, for the media to talk about feigned concern for the sake of pushing an agenda, how utterly rich. I think it goes more along the lines of something like this:

1] People notice a problem
2] Nobody does anything about it, or even acknowledges it
3] The People are angry
4] People try to complain about it. They're essentially given the finger and told to be quiet.
5] The People are more angry.
6] The People try to get more politically involved to make change.
7] They are slandered and called too beyond the Pale for politics. Too fringe and extreme.
8] The People are very angry.
9] Congratulations, and welcome to the Far Right. However, you are no longer human. You are an agitator.


Or to put it all simply:
If a problem exists, and you have no concern in fixing it - or actively work against fixing it - your concerns about "Far-Right" anything are empty. The same media types pushing this are the same people who had nothing to say about the Cologne sex attacks, but were all horns and banners when it came to the anti-Islamic protests that happened later that month. I will not be called an agitator or worse for wanting to protect my country and people, and certainly not by a class of propagandists whose moral compasses spin faster than their mouths.