A Varadkar Excuse (King Charles III Coronation)

these are all distractions to get the population to talk about them so they keep their eyes and ears off the new Hate Speech legislation bill they have just passed through the Dail

its working well dont ya think?

I read online that Matt’s Twitter bio previously had (it’s been removed) a tagline that read in Irish “young, dumb, and full of cum”.

I have immediate family members who are doctors, I’ve worked in pharmaceuticals and in healthcare for years (I’m 50) and through all of the above know scores if not hundreds of medics. I’ve never encountered any doctor of any age who’d put anything as crude as that on a public platform. It really speaks to a lack of decorum and a failure to understand the prestige attached to his role, as well as how social media works. It’s one thing being crude in private, it’s an altogether different matter doing so publicly. To do that as a layperson indicates a lack of maturity, to do it as a medical professional almost defies belief. it’s very “ladish” behaviour, and tbh I just wouldn’t expect it from a medic given the seriousness of the profession.

Both Leo and Matt seem to share a lack of respect for what their chosen career paths represent and the responsibilities that come with the positions they hold.

I genuinely had high hopes for Varadkar when he first appeared on the scene. Needless to say the sheen wore off rather quickly and he continues to undermine himself through his behaviours.

I could not agree more; though I am curious as to whether it’s “nothing burger” or “nothingburger”, or are both acceptable. And by curious I mean I couldn’t care less.

There is definitely a huge element of West British neediness in this thread, a desperate urge for approval from the British Royal Family and the British media.

I don’t like Leo Varadkar’s policies, and I am continuously baffled by his emphasis on social media/millennial quirkiness despite the fact that he is an utter disaster at them and a charisma black hole.

I also don’t like how he still triumphs failed neoliberal policies years after history has already shown their shortcomings.

Nor do I like how he has imported British-style personal attacks on his critics like when he and Pearce O Doherty had their ruladh buladh in the Dáil some years ago and Varadkar referred to O Doherty’s arrest from the late 90s.

Fine Gael’s only saving grace at this stage is that there are no alternatives: Fianna Fáil having almost tried to bankrupt the country fifteen years ago and Sinn Féin’s rumours of being run by an unelected shadowy Army Council in Belfast means that they are a political party in name only.

Fine Gael in the past thirty years have created a corpocracy where the State absolutely have to bend to the whims of a small group of multinational corporations or risk having them pull out and lose thousands (millions?) of jobs, and billions in tax revenue.

This doesn’t take into account crises/disasters such as housing, health, education, the right of right wing extremism, mainstream racism towards travellers and so on and so forth. Leo Varadkar is not only the leader of one the parties responsible for all of these issues but he is still their loudest champion. He is incredibly out of time, a mid 2020s politician with mid 2000s solutions.

That being said, when one considers the history between the Irish and the British Royal Family then the fact that he and his partner didn’t show utter deference and participated in the coronation with tongue very much in cheek (and finger very much in nose) should be a triumph for anyone with Irish Republican leanings. Any right-minded Irish person should be throwing their heads back and laughing lustily at the image of a fellow son of Hibernia taking the piss at the King of England’s coronation.

Instead we have a load of pearl clutching west Brits in this thread sobbing when they imagine the disappointment their King must feel. Good little West Brits wolfing down a nothingburger.