Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings - updated 11/5/24*

where is the opposition to the left in the Irish parliament?

In governance and has been since the start of the state. But but but the left. 🙄

It's not my opinion.

But in your own time if you could tell me when we had a predominately left government.

earlier on RTÉ someone quoted a figure of 80k migrants arriving looking for asylum projected for this year - !!!

Again, it's not my opinion, The 2 leading parties since the formation of the state are centre right parties.

What you seem to be yearning for is far right parties, we don't have any. Well one or 2 cosplay Nazis, but no one really takes them seriously.

Trying to sanitise this hateful bunch and pretend they are just actual centre right parties is pretty funny.

The reality is no one who is functioning is falling for it, no one wants to go back to the 70s or 80s apart from the permanently outraged who are very much an insignificant minority.

And anyone who actually remembers those times realises how far we have came from them.

The reality is whatever failings people have in their own lives will not be sorted by voting that sort.

A lot of media reports on this issue refer to protests being organised by the "far right". What is "far right"?

I think that simply questioning asylum and immigration policy makes you "far right" in the eyes of the media. Can someone who is centre-left or liberal in most aspects of life not be critical of official asylum policies?

I fully expect to get tarred with the Far Right brush for saying this.

You're saying if we let in a tiny number of refugees it would impact Ireland's stability and function?

A tiny number of refugees would cause our nation to crumble?

Just to clarify. They said this 80k will be on top of the numbers who have already arrived last year. Madness

You asked a question, I replied with a pretty specific pertinent example.

You have returned with.

But but but the left. 🤷‍♀️

I'm pretty sure reality won't be tolerated around here.

A thread roaring about the government providing houses screaming for right governance, when it was right governance which outsourced and privatised housing.

You couldn't actually make it up.

Again, I know you are only an immigrant yourself and the few dozen far right here wouldn't be too fond of you, but we have never had a predominately left government, never.

There is left governance in Scotland and as you declared yourself.

I'm from Glasgow in Scotland. I could buy an OK 1 bedroom flat for 50k.... a fairly nice 2 bedroom flat might be 100k....

But but but the left.

I imagine some would, the same some who are fighting the great culture wars of our time.

🙄

That was not my intention. My initial concern was the lazy habit of labelling objectors/critics of immigration policy as "far right".: some are, many are not. It's just a lazy label and probably gets the causality all wrong. You can be right-wing in many respects and be comfortable with high immigration. Not wanting more immigration does not define you as "right".

There is too much lazy labelling in political discussion, e.g.: "Liberal Left" (from Trump followers); "Neoliberal" (from leftist academics); "fascist" (from loads of people who haven't a clue as to the real historically accurate meaning of the word).

Seriously?

You are incapable of having an opinion without filtering it through your chosen prism.

You are exactly the type of person he is talking about.

We all saw your list. 🤷‍♀️

Isn't that the whole racist loon act, pick out a foreign person who did something wrong and then apply to all foreign people? 😂

Anyway I was clearly talking about 1 individual.