Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when politicians are selected based solely on name recognition, gender, age, and "social media yoof appeal" rather than competence, experience, and a track record in anything outside of party politics.

I've said it before but there's a very good reason why FG are historically never elected as anything other than a protest vote, and then only until they remind everyone why that is - because they prove to be actually even WORSE than FF in the end!

McEntee is a prime example of Leo's "new FG" - all spin and no substance, great for a soundbite - generally about someone else's brief - but does nothing in their own, and more concerned about their twitter profile, populist trend chasing, and how it'll affect their long term career bucket list over all other matters! She's not the only one mind. Leo himself is a master at it. Look how many actually rate the guy's performance over the last couple of years!

It's bad enough that McEntee has made it as far as she has, but the occasional mutterings in the media that she could be a future leader of the party and even Taoiseach is a sincerely scary concept for the welfare of this country.

A few wires crossed here, I think.

In this specific instance, anecdotally and otherwise, I think it's fair to say that the majority opinion is that no, unlimited numbers of ukranian refugees is not a good idea.

More broadly speaking, minority imposition of rule has of course been around a long time. At the risk of sounding prophetic, I think this time it's different. The very ideas of these minority lead movements are, actually, forming and concentrating a majority move against them. It is becoming easier and easier to distinguish who is who (for instance an entire voting blocks worth of ukrainians are certainly distinguishable from Irish people, and so on), and while this country goes down the drain for the majority of Irish people, it will only weld them together in solidarity.

It's everywhere. The momentum is building against the infantilism and destruction brought by these minority ideas. Now let me stick my neck out even further, the changes coming are going to be history-making, very long term.

One tiny example, all nitty gritty aside, were the recent french elections. Macron won, yes, but only because he was backed by the older generations. The younger population of France is changing rapidly and forming up, concentrating in solidarity, and they backed Le pen.

Click on the graphic below to see the growing difference

The fools that have lead us into the mess we are in have, predictably, created their own downfall. It's in the post.

Ireland's welcome has been worn out. It's pure practicality now, it has nothing to do with outsiders, and everything to do with us. Like many other countries too.

It's funny how certain people love the EU for all the wrong reasons. It'll be double funny when the EU forms into a new cooperative entity that stands for everything they dont. Vive la difference, non?!

Headlines this morning talking about Darragh O'Brien bringing proposals to allocate vacant social housing to refugees.

There's definitely more going on here than simply charity. Between measures like the above, McEntee suggesting people could be forced to give up property, Eamon Ryan committing to extra public transport for refugees etc, you really need to ask WHY suddenly all these things are now possible when the same Government has been completely unable/unwilling to do anything about these long-standing issues before now.

And fundamentally, you can't escape the inference that these people are being put ahead of the natives and existing citizens we have who are exposed to and struggle with the effects of this inaction every day.

Jaysus "agents" of the gubberment are going to start calling to people forcing Ukrainians into their spare rooms. 😕

I'd say this place has gone full Daily Mail comment section, but that would be harsh on the Daily Mail.

It must be absolutely exhausting to be constantly self scaring oneself with irrational figments.

Questions do need to be asked to our government. It seems that when what they deem an emergency happens they can pull out all the stops. Housing for Irish homeless and helping the Irish working poor doesn't seem to be on their agenda at all.

We should look to take in some of the injured Ukrainian soldiers. The Government might actually try to fix our health service then.

Sein Fein need to come out and say we need a cap. Leo and Mcentee are only thinking about their jobs in the EU when they are voted out. The opposition need to stand up and be counted. Enough of this liberal rainbow unicorn shi*te. Twill be grand sur.

It shows how disconnected he is with reality. Most builders would already work overtime. Maybe the minister wants builders to work during the night but he doesn't get that overtime drives up costs which probably would be counterproductive.

I wonder when we will see the first legal actions from people in dp demanding their council houses being they were here first

Including the 11,000 with deportation orders

You can’t force people to share their homes with others

When did this happen?

Minister for education has said we could be looking to integrate up to 40,000 Ukrainian school children into our system. As parents are we allowed to be even a little concerned?